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Connections, Themes, and Implications for the Future of Evaluation

Williams, David Dwayne

This final article explores some of the unique and common connections the seven early and influential evaluators have made between their extraprofessional and professional evaluation lives, as reflected in their comments and stories in their individual articles and one prominent theme noted across all cases: These evaluators described how their values developed and eventually shaped their evaluation approaches. In addition, some subthemes are identified and questions for further study are posed. Following, in one page each, the seven authors review their colleagues’ articles and offer their own responses regarding what they learned from each other and what possible implications they foresee for future evaluation. Based on these reviews, readers are invited to think about possible implications for their own and their clients’ evaluation lives. The entire document invites readers to relate to evaluation less as a technology and more as a values‐based activity involving their own values and those of other participants in their evaluations.