Acknowledgments
This book would not be possible without the environment of ideas and practice of staff and graduate students which exists at the Centre for Program Evaluation at The University of Melbourne. A special note of thanks to the following colleagues and friends: Pamela Andrew, Rosalind Hurworth, Neil Day, Pam St Leger, Bradley Shrimpton, John McLeod, Ian Ling, Marion Brown and Carole Hooper. I would like to thank the Faculty of Education for providing access to facilities which considerably assisted the revision of this book during 2004 and 2005. Finally I would like to acknowledge the feedback about the previous edition of this book from the international evaluation community, which I took into account in the production of this edition. ...
