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Title	Credibility and other criteria for “good evidence”: integrating diverse perspectives, toward better judgments about evaluation and applied research
Creator	Mark, Melvin M.
Symposium	What Constitutes Credible Evidence in Evaluation and Applied Research
Series	Claremont Graduate University's Stauffer Symposium Series
Date	2006-08-19
Subject-LCSH	Evaluation Social sciences
Subject-Local	Credible Evidence
Description	Melvin Mark, professor of psychology at The Pennsylvania State University, presents this conclusion to the symposium, “What Constitutes Credible Evidence in Evaluation and Applied Research.” Mark synthesizes presentations given during this symposium, focusing particularly on how the presentations described what does actually constitute credibility in research, and how these presentations themselves demonstrated one of the main sources of disagreement about credibility within the field. According to Mark, one of the main causes of academic debate surrounding this issue is the lack of contextual descriptions in discussions of what credibility means. In other words what constitutes credibility changes depending on what was studied and for what purpose, who is describing it and why, and who is interpreting the credibility and why. Mark compares this common sense interpretation of when evidence is credible to the fact that evaluators and applied social scientists often seek a gold standard. In the case of contextually driven issues such as credibility, a gold standard is unlikely to exist.
Publisher	Claremont Graduate University. School of Behavioral and Organizational Sciences
Language	eng
Source	Original video: 60 minute digital 8mm cassette; Tape 10; recorded symposium presentation entitled, “Credibility and Other Criteria for 'Good Evidence': Integrating Diverse Perspectives, Toward Better Judgments About Evaluation and Applied Research,” from the symposium entitled, “What Constitutes Credible Evidence in Evaluation and Applied Research,” August 19, 2006
Collection	Claremont Graduate University Lectures on Applied Psychology and Evaluation Science - http://ccdl.libraries.claremont.edu/col/lap
Rights	Physical rights are retained by the institution. Copyright is retained in accordance with U. S. Copyright laws.
Type	Moving Image
Running time	00:30:04
Format	video/f4v
Object File Name	lap00012

Credibility and other criteria for “good evidence”: integrating diverse perspectives, toward better judgments about evaluation and applied research

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