Program evaluators in Alberta experienced turbulence
following government’s adoption of a performance
measurement agenda (Bradley, 2001). A
significant number of the people who were
involved at the beginning of the 1990s in program
evaluation had to reorient their career into business
planning and performance evaluation or leave
public service. One evaluator described the evaluation
community as navigating ‘‘blindly’’, especially
since evaluators could not rely on a large-scale network
of resources like that sustained by accountants,
dedicated,