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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What this means is that the balance of mechanisms , contexts and regularities
which sustain social order is prone to a perpetual and self - generated reshaping
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What this means is that the balance of mechanisms , contexts and regularities
which sustain social order is prone to a perpetual and self - generated reshaping
. The difference between Figures 3 . 2 and 3 . 6 is that the latter is peopled ...
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Without the prior theory , it is by no means obvious that actually examining
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Without the prior theory , it is by no means obvious that actually examining
unmolested parked cars would constitute an important part of the evaluation
process . 3 Another important body of evidence would concern the location within
the car ...
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The course : Mean response ( a ) helps inmates to accept themselves and their
feelings more fully 3 . 4 ( b ) helps inmates to become more self - confident and
self - directing 2 . 4 ( c ) helps inmates to become more acceptable persons to ...
The course : Mean response ( a ) helps inmates to accept themselves and their
feelings more fully 3 . 4 ( b ) helps inmates to become more self - confident and
self - directing 2 . 4 ( c ) helps inmates to become more acceptable persons to ...
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| Título | Realistic Evaluation |
| Autores | Ray Pawson, Nicholas Tilley, Nick Tilley |
| Edición | ilustrada, reimpresa |
| Editor | SAGE Publications, 1997 |
| Procedencia del original | Universidad de Michigan |
| Digitalizado | 9 Dic. 2009 |
| ISBN | 0761950087, 9780761950080 |
| Largo | 235 páginas |
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