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Evaluation has a relatively short history when compared to that of the wider social sciences. Some histories of evaluation, particularly with a US focus, point to the evaluations of social programmes in sectors such as education and public health prior to the First World War as the start of the modern history of evaluation, characterised by the application of social research methods to programme evaluation (see, for instance, Rossi et al. 2004). By the 1930s, social scientists were using rigorous methods to assess a range of social programmes, with the Second World War providing a strong boost as evaluators worked with the US Army to develop procedures for monitoring soldier morale and evaluating personnel policies and propaganda techniques (ibid.).