Evaluation researchers are tasked with providing the evidence to guide programme building and to assess its outcomes. As such, they labour under the highest expectations - bringing independence and objectivity to policy making. They face huge challenges, given the complexity of modern interventions and the politicised backdrop to all of their investigations. They have responded with a huge portfolio of research techniques and, through their professional associations, have set up schemes to establish standards for evaluative inquiry and to accredit evaluation practitioners. A big question remains. Has this monumental effort produced a progressive, cumulative and authoritative body of knowledge that we might think of as evaluation science? This is the question addressed by Ray Pawson in this sequel to Realistic Evaluation and Evidence-based Policy. In answer, he provides a detailed blueprint for an evaluation science based on realist principles.
Produkteigenschaften
- Artikelnummer: 9781446252420
- Medium: Buch
- ISBN: 978-1-4462-5242-0
- Verlag: Shanaya Wagh
- Erscheinungstermin: 06.03.2013
- Sprache(n): Englisch
- Auflage: 1. Auflage 2013
- Produktform: Gebunden
- Gewicht: 458 g
- Seiten: 240
- Format (B x H x T): 170 x 246 x 15 mm
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