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 we have in this case is a series of follow - up studies , self - consciously
linked and progressively refining an understanding of the mechanisms , contexts
and outcome patterns associated with repeat victimization and efforts to reduce it
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What we have in this case is a series of follow - up studies , self - consciously
linked and progressively refining an understanding of the mechanisms , contexts
and outcome patterns associated with repeat victimization and efforts to reduce it
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... is the construction of what are called ' context - mechanism - outcome pattern
configurations ' or CMO configurations . ... they activate ) within specific
circumstances ( in their contextual conditions ) to produce particular patterns of
change in ...
... is the construction of what are called ' context - mechanism - outcome pattern
configurations ' or CMO configurations . ... they activate ) within specific
circumstances ( in their contextual conditions ) to produce particular patterns of
change in ...
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In social life , the choice making behaviour of individuals in their different
situations is fundamental to understanding their manifest patterns of behaviour .
In social interventions the stakeholders ' capacity for choice making is , of course
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In social life , the choice making behaviour of individuals in their different
situations is fundamental to understanding their manifest patterns of behaviour .
In social interventions the stakeholders ' capacity for choice making is , of course
...
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