As an intended step towards social betterment, evaluators often provide recommendations for program improvement. However, recommendations promote social betterment only insofar as they are actually used, and unfortunately they are often ignored. Despite the vast literature on evaluation use, it is still not clear which factors most strongly influence whether evaluation findings get used. Missing from the literature is an empirical examination of the relative importance of, and users opinions about the factors that importantly affect instrumental use. To address that gap, evaluation users' opinions about the relative importance of factors that facilitate recommendation implementation were explored. Using Q methodology, various statements were drawn from the evaluation literature about what importantly influences instrumental use, and a sample of evaluation users rank ordered those statements. The emergent perspectives are presented, and the practical and theoretical implications of the findings are discussed. #2011Conference #ResearchonEvaluation #EvaluationUse