Has the Time Come to Reevaluate Evaluation? or, Who Will Be Accountable for Accountability?

✍ Scribed by Roger A. Lohmann

• Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
• Year: 1999
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 58 KB
• Volume: 10
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 1048-6682
• DOI: 10.1002/nml.10108

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paper.

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