Question

why might the lack of use of research findings be frustrating for the evaluation researcher? Explain your logic and reasoning.

Answer 1

Hi, thanks for posting your question.

The lack of research findings can be frusting for an evaluation researcher due to various reasons, but for this we must first understand what is an evaluation research. Evaluation research includes a set of methodologies and research methods that have a distinctive purpose and it helps to make judgement about actions and activities, social processes or problems with regards to the values, criteria and standards. Therefore an evaluation researcher is a person that carries out such activities for the purpose of conducting an evaluation research.

Thus if an evaluation researcher does not have adequate research findings, he or she may not be in a position to reach a definate conclusion for his research inorder to be able to make a valid judgement about any action or any social process that may be under study for the greater purpose of being able to come up with an accurate result. For eg. policy making, that may be part of social processes may be evaluated using this type of resarch but due to lack of research findings only an incomplete policy may be made.

Secondly lack of research findings will put a question mark or a threat on the validity and reliability of the research, so as to say how efficiently and widely can a particular research topic be accepted and thus be used in making effective judgements by an evaluation researcher.