A survey of 58 in house program evaluators in health-care settings revealed that evaluators are largely satisfied with their work and their roles in these facilities. This finding suggests that the faculty of graduate programs can in good faith continue to encourage students to prepare to become program evaluators since program evaluation seems to be a desirable field to enter. Survey respondents suggested that research methods courses be retainede however, the type of evaluations done by the evaluators surveyed suggests that methods of large-scale data management ought to become an important part of the evaluator's training.
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