The authors present the results of an assessment of human service program outcome measures included in a county department's formative evaluation system. The criteria of credibility, feasibility, and utility provided the framework for examining measures in the context of the field environment within which programs operate and are evaluated. Recommendations address findings regarding three categories of evaluation measure and their potential application in other agency settings.

Graduates of a 1970s training program for women demonstrated that they had expanded the social change and voluntarism agenda of their earlier training to incorporate feminism and personal action in the workplace. These women were active professionals espousing personal achievement and individual voluntarism, yet they had forsworn col lective action. They mirror the oddity of American feminism in defin ing even social change in individualistic terms.