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Realistic Evaluation - Softcover

Pawson, Ray; Tilley, Nick

 
9780761950097: Realistic Evaluation
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0761950095 ISBN 13: 9780761950097
Verlag: SAGE Publications Ltd, 1997

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Realistic 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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Given my job title, it will come as no surprise that my main interest lies in research methodology. This does not quite bracket me with the technical nerds, however, for I have written widely on the philosophy and practice of research, covering methods qualitative and quantitative, pure and applied, contemporaneous and historical. There is a common ′realist′ thread underlying every word, albeit a modest, middle-range, empirically-rich kind of realism.

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Realistic 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 introduces a `manifesto' and `handbook' for a fresh approach.

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Verlag
SAGE Publications Ltd
Erscheinungsdatum
1997
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0761950095
ISBN 13 
9780761950097
Einband
Taschenbuch
Auflage
1
Anzahl der Seiten
235
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