Are Participants Good Evaluators?

Managers of workforce training programs are often unable to afford costly, full-fledged experimental or nonexperimental evaluations to determine their programs’ impacts. Therefore, many rely on the survey responses of program participants to gauge program impacts. Smith, Whalley, and Wilcox present...

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Những tác giả chính: Smith, Jeffrey, Whalley, Alexander, Wilcox, Nathaniel
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