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Each chapter begins with a series of learning objectives, or “brief statements that describe what students will be expected to learn” (Great Schools Partnership, 2014, para. 1 [), and ends with a summary of the chapter. Numerous examples and activities are included for the purpose of illustrating how the information in the book can be applied in actual settings. Within each chapter is commentary from practicing evaluators and evaluation users, called Voices From the Field. Also included is an annotated list of supplemental resources and/or tools for those who would like to delve more deeply into the areas covered. As can be seen in this chapter, evaluation-related terms are bolded the first time they are defined, and at the end of the book is a glossary of the bolded terms. The book as a whole and the individual chapters cover how race and social justice issues affect different aspects of evaluation and how readers can use that knowledge to improve evaluation quality and usefulness.