Just as scholarly disciplines share in the use of language, mathematics, ethics, and aesthetics, they share in using and misusing the process of evaluation. But unlike those other processes, there is no central focus, no discipline for the study of evaluation. Michael Scriven, a distinguished philosopher and evaluation specialist, argues that the time has come to draw upon the existing sophistication of evaluative work in the science, humanities, practical, and professional studies to acknowledge such a discipline.

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