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- Title
Knowledge utilization: Implications for evaluation.
- Authors
Blake, Sarah C.; Ottoson, Judith M.
- Abstract
Knowledge utilization is a field crossing many sectors, from agriculture, since the 1920s, to health care today. Evaluators have made long-standing contributions to understanding knowledge utilization. Different models or ways to think about knowledge utilization have evolved to reflect different perspectives, contexts, and stages of the process, from knowledge creation to the use of effectiveness results in policymaking. The rich interdisciplinary history of this field challenges evaluators to interrogate what knowledge (really) means within a policy or program—whether knowledge is being used more symbolically, rhetorically, or tactically, for example. Differences in program or policy effectiveness across different program sites might result from different types of knowledge use in those sites. © Wiley Periodicals, Inc., and the American Evaluation Association.
- Subjects
THEORY of knowledge; EVALUATION research (Social action programs); SOCIAL services; COMMUNICATION in social action; ACTION research in education; GOVERNMENT policy; GOVERNMENT programs; PROGRAM effectiveness (Education); KNOWLEDGE transfer
- Publication
New Directions for Evaluation, 2009, Vol 2009, Issue 124, p21
- ISSN
1097-6736
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1002/ev.311