Supporting knowledge translation through evaluation: Evaluator as knowledge broker

Canadian Journal of Program Evaluation

Volumn 29, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 36-61

  Donnelly, Catherine ^a   Letts, Lori ^b   Klinger, Don ^a   Shulha, Lyn ^a  

^a QUEEN S UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Evaluation use; Knowledge broker; Knowledge translation; Participatory evaluation

Indexed keywords

EID: 84905059817     PISSN: 08341516     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3138/cjpe.29.1.36     Document Type: Article

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