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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Our particular contribution to evaluation is distinctive in that it is the first to rest on
realist principles . In this chapter we attempt to enunciate these foundations in
some detail . Inquiry is always an amalgam of principle and practice , and our aim
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Our particular contribution to evaluation is distinctive in that it is the first to rest on
realist principles . In this chapter we attempt to enunciate these foundations in
some detail . Inquiry is always an amalgam of principle and practice , and our aim
...
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In social science ( most particularly sociology , geography , psychology ) there
have been a number of attempts to make the leap from scientific realist
explanation to realist social explanation . Amongst the best known works of this
ilk are Keat ...
In social science ( most particularly sociology , geography , psychology ) there
have been a number of attempts to make the leap from scientific realist
explanation to realist social explanation . Amongst the best known works of this
ilk are Keat ...
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Regularities We now move to the goal of realist explanation . No surprises in
store here , for we pick up on a task which is held in common with most
explanatory paradigms . That is to say that the objective of realist inquiry is to
explain social ...
Regularities We now move to the goal of realist explanation . No surprises in
store here , for we pick up on a task which is held in common with most
explanatory paradigms . That is to say that the objective of realist inquiry is to
explain social ...
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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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