Are Participants Good Evaluators?

• Main Author: Smith, Jeffrey (auth)
• Other Authors: Whalley, Alexander (auth), Wilcox, Nathaniel (auth)
• Format: Electronic Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: W.E. Upjohn Institute 2021
• Subjects: Central government policies; Social welfare & social services; Public Policy & Administration
• Online Access: DOAB: download the publication; DOAB: description of the publication

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 pre...