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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... efforts ' rather than ' exemplars ' , but in the end convention ruled and so we present our exemplary efforts as follows . An exemplar of a best case evaluation study : testing theory The first study relates to the effectiveness of a ...
... efforts ' rather than ' exemplars ' , but in the end convention ruled and so we present our exemplary efforts as follows . An exemplar of a best case evaluation study : testing theory The first study relates to the effectiveness of a ...
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... efforts were lost . To retain the momentum of Kirkholt , the key is thus not to replicate , for one may have to wait many a moon before one comes upon another community of ' potentially close but demoralized Lancashire lads and lasses ...
... efforts were lost . To retain the momentum of Kirkholt , the key is thus not to replicate , for one may have to wait many a moon before one comes upon another community of ' potentially close but demoralized Lancashire lads and lasses ...
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Ray Pawson, Nick Tilley. crime prevention efforts that would be adequately resourced and targeted , and be effective ... effort to evaluate the long term potential of Safer Cities needs to begin with the theory of what it is that the ...
Ray Pawson, Nick Tilley. crime prevention efforts that would be adequately resourced and targeted , and be effective ... effort to evaluate the long term potential of Safer Cities needs to begin with the theory of what it is that the ...
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Utilizing Stakeholders Knowledge | 153 |
Realizing the Potential | 200 |
The New Rules of Realistic Evaluation | 214 |
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