Which of the following are NOT among the assumptions made about summative program

evaluations by those who use nonpositivist approaches?



a. There are multiple stakeholders in social interventions.
b. Interpretation and social meanings are at the core of social interventions.
c. Social interventions reflect and reinforce inequitable distributions of power.
d. All of the answers represent assumptions made by these approaches.


D

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