Realistic EvaluationRealistic Evaluation shows how programme evaluation needs to be, and can be bettered. It presents a profound yet highly readable critique of current evaluation practice, and goes on to introduce a `manifesto' and `handbook' for a fresh approach. The main body of this book is devoted to the articulation of a new evaluation paradigm, which promises greater validity and utility from the findings of evaluation studies. The authors call this new approach `realistic evaluation'. The name reflects the paradigm's foundation in scientific realist philosophy, its commitment to the idea that programmes deal with real problems rather than mere social constructions, and its primary intention, which is to inform realistic developm |
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Knowledge collided in quite a different way ( Chapter 5 ) when the Huddersfield
police ( on the look - out for ways of focusing effort where it counted ) met
Professor Pease ( brimful of ideas about why repeat victimization was so
prevalent ) .
Knowledge collided in quite a different way ( Chapter 5 ) when the Huddersfield
police ( on the look - out for ways of focusing effort where it counted ) met
Professor Pease ( brimful of ideas about why repeat victimization was so
prevalent ) .
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... see Priority Estates project foundationalism in social sciences , 14 Full Sutton
Prison , interviewing at , 169 – 75 funding , Safer Cities projects , 205
Huddersfield , reduction of crime project , 142 – 6 , 143 , 151 , 152 , 162 Hull ,
Priority Estates ...
... see Priority Estates project foundationalism in social sciences , 14 Full Sutton
Prison , interviewing at , 169 – 75 funding , Safer Cities projects , 205
Huddersfield , reduction of crime project , 142 – 6 , 143 , 151 , 152 , 162 Hull ,
Priority Estates ...
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... 9 – 10 , 106 paradigm wars , xiv , xv , 2 , 24 , 154 participants in studies , role ,
200 Patton , M . , 13 – 14 , 16 – 17 Pawson , R . , 56 see also Full Sutton prison ;
Simon Fraser University prison education program Pease , K . , see Huddersfield
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... 9 – 10 , 106 paradigm wars , xiv , xv , 2 , 24 , 154 participants in studies , role ,
200 Patton , M . , 13 – 14 , 16 – 17 Pawson , R . , 56 see also Full Sutton prison ;
Simon Fraser University prison education program Pease , K . , see Huddersfield
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