The Science of Evaluation: A Realist Manifesto - Couverture rigide

Pawson, Ray

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 1446252426 ISBN 13 : 9781446252420

Editeur : SAGE Publications Ltd, 2013

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Présentation de l'éditeur :

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.

Biographie de l'auteur :

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.

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: SAGE Publications Ltd
• Date d'édition: 2013
• ISBN 10: 1446252426
• ISBN 13: 9781446252420
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 240