Evaluation research

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Any research aimed to determine the merit, worth, or significance of something. A number of specific models have been proposed for this (see evaluation models) but none are dominant. The essential feature that distinguishes evaluation research from empirical research is that the conclusions contain evaluative terms (good, better, best, worthwhile, overpriced, important, etc.), which means that some evaluative premises were required. Hence evaluation research must involve some steps of identifying relevant values and associated standards (e.g., medical knowledge in M.D.s at a certain level of competence approved by the relevant accrediting organization), and the validation of any of these whose validity is not generally accepted and well-founded in the research peer group.