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Evaluators in IT

One of my major interests early on in my research into evaluators' lives was how different disciplines prepare their novitiates in doing evaluation within each discipline. Many of the interviews I'm linking to this blog come from people representing different disciplines and it would be interesting to search among them to see if there are patterns across representatives from similar disciplines.
ogy field. I am linking some of their interviews to this post to facilitate looking for patterns across them (they are all available through the folders linked my first post in August):

ST's (an experienced IT professional and now retired professor) interviews are here:

MK's (an IT student) interviews are here:

BL's (an experienced IT professor with years of professional experience) interviews are here:

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