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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Whilst this is beginning to sound like a cheap jibe at the expense of the politician
, it is in fact part of the ' dismal vision ... So whilst the view that ' prisons work '
through incapacitation glides over several decades of hard data on reconviction ...
Whilst this is beginning to sound like a cheap jibe at the expense of the politician
, it is in fact part of the ' dismal vision ... So whilst the view that ' prisons work '
through incapacitation glides over several decades of hard data on reconviction ...
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So whilst they are happy to accuse experimentalists of ' context - stripping ' , they
only manage to replace it with ' context - hopping ' . Context appears with the fall
of the dice . Solipsism rules . In summary , we can say that the naturalistic ...
So whilst they are happy to accuse experimentalists of ' context - stripping ' , they
only manage to replace it with ' context - hopping ' . Context appears with the fall
of the dice . Solipsism rules . In summary , we can say that the naturalistic ...
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Our basic objection is that , whilst the precise turn of phrase will always be
important in the conduct of an interview , operational definitions alone are rarely
sufficient to orient the subject to the underlying research tack . In reducing the
inquiry to ...
Our basic objection is that , whilst the precise turn of phrase will always be
important in the conduct of an interview , operational definitions alone are rarely
sufficient to orient the subject to the underlying research tack . In reducing the
inquiry 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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