250 research outputs found
The Logic of Evaluation
A sketch of the arguments for adding the logic of evaluation to the areas of argumentation that have been partly mapped and are worth further work by workers in rhetoric, argumentation, communication, critical thinking, and informal logic. Brief coverage of: (i) the arguments that there cannot be any legitimate logic of evaluation; of (ii) the nature of evaluation (conceptions and misconceptions); and of (iii) the technical apparatus of evaluation logic
The Problem of Free Will in Program Evaluation
Free will is the freedom to start a program: will power is what it takes to complete it.
The Concept of a Transdiscipline: And of Evaluation as a Transdiscipline
here are two main meanings of this term that can be disinterred from the 8,000+ references to their definition in Google (at December 12, 2007), both of them sharing the idea of a discipline that crosses over the boundaries between many other disciplines: we can distinguish them as the ‘point of view ’ sense of the term and the ‘method ’ sense of the term. These senses are not sharply distinct from each other, but are distinct from ‘interdiscipline’ meaning a compound approach drawing from or working in the boundary area between two or sometimes more other disciplines; and from ‘multidiscipline ’ meaning a compound approach involving more than two other disciplines.1 I
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