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The Science of Evaluation : A Realist Manifesto by Ray Pawson is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.
What is The Science of Evaluation : A Realist Manifesto about?
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.
Who reads The Science of Evaluation : A Realist Manifesto?
It is typically read by self-directed learners exploring a subject in depth.
Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Ray Pawson
- Publisher
- SAGE Publications, Limited
- Published
- 2013
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9781446252437
- Category
- nonfiction
- Subjects
- Science, Social Science, Social_sciences