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What are the advantages and disadvantages of evaluation research?

Answer:

Advantages:
- practical orientation
- can reveal whether policies work/do not work
- explains underlying logic behind the programme
- it can improve programme effectiveness

Disadvantages:

- conflicts of interests among stakeholders
- costs of evaluation: it diverts resources from the programme
- apart from possessing research skills, researcher has to play different roles: collaborator, trainer, group facilitator etc. in order to smooth conflicts of interest
- it is difficult to generalize based on evaluation results

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