Evaluation and the Postmodern Dilemma

A postmodern text on postmodernism? (L. Mabry). Evaluation with the lights out: deconstructing illuminative evaluation and new paradigm research (I. Stronach). The fleeting discernment of quality (R.E. Stake). A standards-based perspective on evaluation (D.L. Stufflebeam). Whose interests are being served? Program evaluation as a conceptual practice of power (T.A. Schwandt). Sharing power, facing ambiguity (T.A. Abma). Why won't they listen? Reflections of a formative evaluator (D. Walker). If in search of truth an evaluator? (L. McLean). Meeting the postmodern challenge: pragmatism and evaluative inquiry for organizational learning (S.L. Preskill, H. Preskill). Participatory evolution (J.C. Greene). Implicit and explicit advocacy in postmodern evaluation (L. Mabry).