This long article (>10,000 words) which reviews the literature and then concludes by calling for a further research study into the topic due to the lack of publications is exactly what I was hoping to do.
There is an introduction, overview of the topic (literature), methodology (which includes list of data sources and method used). The findings section includes a summary of 8 evaluation journals and the types /topics of articles included therein followed by a summary of the relevant articles and then thematic trends. The discussion section is just 4 paras and the implications just 2 paras and significance and conclusion 2 paras. The section on limitations describes some good points and I feel this is an area missing from my paper. It mentions that unpublished data is overlooked, coding only done by one researcher hence researcher bias. In the implications section, a call is made for further research into the foci of educational evaluation and their purposes. The evaluation due to grant requirements is mentioned and a call is made 'to better understand how program evaluation is being used in education and what should be done to improve its effectiveness' p.81.
I particularly like how the method is referenced (p76):
The type and purpose of program evaluation articles were determined according to the classification of Stufflebeam (2001). Overall, this analysis used common strategies of qualitative content analysis (as summarized by Romanowski, 2009): (1) careful examination of the textual data (i.e., published articles); (2) data reduction (i.e., selecting those articles that would help to answer research questions); (3) organizing condensed data (i.e., organizing the articles in groups); and (4) revisiting the data to confirm the findings.
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