Publisher's Synopsis
Advisory committees are used often in evaluation studies, yetthis practice is little discussed or reported. This issue is thefirst full-length text devoted to the purpose, practice, andscholarship about this type of formal, structured advice.
It includes case studies and analyses of these to answer suchbasic topics as:
- What is an evaluation advisory group (EAG)?
- Why (not) use an EAG?
- How to organize an EAG, and how to evaluate it?
This is the 136th volume of the Jossey-Bass quarterlyreport series New Directions for Evaluation, an officialpublication of the American Evaluation Association.
