Links to Other Sources of Evaluation and Related Glossaries
Evaluation Thesaurus
Scriven, Michael. (1991). Evaluation Thesaurus (4th ed.). Newbury Park, CA: Sage. The standard reference for evaluation terminology.


Glossaries for Evaluation Resources
Glossaries of Plan Components, Instrument Characteristics, and Report Components from the Online Evaluation Resource Library (OERL). This library was developed for professionals seeking to design , conduct, document, or review project evaluations.

Governmental Accounting Standards Board, Additional resources
One of the purposes of this website is to be a comprehensive resource for information about government performance measurement . . .

Program Evaluation Glossary, US Environmental Agency
"The Program Evaluation Glossary contains words that reflect the contextual meaning of the language from both the social scientist and the practioners point of view."

Dressed-down Research Terms: A Glossary for Non-researchers
Missouri Institute of Mental Health, Program in Consumer Studies and Training (the glossary is in PDF format)

Glossary of Distance Education and Internet Terminology
From the Educational Cyber Playground

Glossary, US Department of Education for National Assessment of Title I
Mapping Out the National Assessment of Title I: the Interim Report - 1996 (Archived Information)

Glossary from the Research and Evaluation Tutorial
Social Research Methods, W. Lawrence Neuman

Glossary of Education and Training Terms
Engineering Council of South Africa, Standards and Procedures System


Dictionary.com
Dictionary.com is a multi-source dictionary search service produced by Lexico Publishing Group, LLC, a leading provider of language reference products and services on the Internet.

OneLookŪ Dictionary Search
Think of this web site as a search engine for words and phrases: If you have a word for which you'd like a definition or translation, we'll quickly shuttle you to the web-based dictionaries that define or translate that word.



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