Realistic EvaluationSAGE Publications, 1997 M06 23 - 235 páginas Realistic 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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... causal agent from the experiment so that we are left with one , secure causal link . At this juncture experimentalists acknowledge a fundamental distinction between their work in the laboratory and in the field . A simple ontological ...
... causal agent from the experiment so that we are left with one , secure causal link . At this juncture experimentalists acknowledge a fundamental distinction between their work in the laboratory and in the field . A simple ontological ...
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... causation allows us to make plain our charge against experimental evaluation , which can be stated as follows . In pursuing causal explanation via a constant conjunction model , with its stress on that which can be observed and ...
... causation allows us to make plain our charge against experimental evaluation , which can be stated as follows . In pursuing causal explanation via a constant conjunction model , with its stress on that which can be observed and ...
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... causal action of a social intervention . Experimental evaluation is also X → Y fixated and reduces the business of explanation to drawing causal inferences between variables . And though it is a convenient shorthand to do so , it is ...
... causal action of a social intervention . Experimental evaluation is also X → Y fixated and reduces the business of explanation to drawing causal inferences between variables . And though it is a convenient shorthand to do so , it is ...
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Utilizing Stakeholders Knowledge | 153 |
Realizing the Potential | 200 |
The New Rules of Realistic Evaluation | 214 |
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