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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the famous ' enlightenment or ' knowledge creep ' theory of the role of evaluation
research : As the decision makers whom we interview reported , a much more
common mode of research use is the diffuse and undirected infiltration of
research ...
the famous ' enlightenment or ' knowledge creep ' theory of the role of evaluation
research : As the decision makers whom we interview reported , a much more
common mode of research use is the diffuse and undirected infiltration of
research ...
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Chapter 5 will have more to say about how cumulation is achieved through a
series of studies . For now , we inspect the initial laps more closely by looking at
three rather different realist research designs . Realistic evaluation : an
introduction ...
Chapter 5 will have more to say about how cumulation is achieved through a
series of studies . For now , we inspect the initial laps more closely by looking at
three rather different realist research designs . Realistic evaluation : an
introduction ...
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... 133 research and development , Rothschild criteria , 14 research design , xv ,
83 – 114 research languor , 41 research ... evaluation , 3 social change , see
change social engineering , 76 social problems , and evaluation research , 12
social ...
... 133 research and development , Rothschild criteria , 14 research design , xv ,
83 – 114 research languor , 41 research ... evaluation , 3 social change , see
change social engineering , 76 social problems , and evaluation research , 12
social ...
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