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.
| Format |
Häftad |
| Omfång |
240 sidor |
| Språk |
Engelska |
| Förlag |
Sage Publications Ltd |
| Utgivningsdatum |
2013-02-18 |
| ISBN |
9781446252437 |
