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Genre/Form: | Electronic books |
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Additional Physical Format: | Print version: Pawson, Ray, 1948- Realistic evaluation. London ; Thousand Oaks, Calif. : Sage, 1997 (DLC) 97065723 (OCoLC)37255786 |
Material Type: | Document, Internet resource |
Document Type: | Internet Resource, Computer File |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Ray Pawson; Nick Tilley |
ISBN: | 9781473924857 1473924855 9781446233887 144623388X |
OCLC Number: | 646026852 |
Language Note: | English. |
Reproduction Notes: | Electronic reproduction. [S.l.] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010. MiAaHDL |
Description: | 1 online resource (xvii, 235 pages) : illustrations |
Details: | Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. |
Contents: | 1. A History of Evaluation in 28 1/2 Pages -- 2. Out with the Old: Weaknesses in Experimental Evaluation -- 3. In with the New: Introducing Scientific Realism -- 4. How To Design a Realistic Evaluation -- 5. How To Make Evaluations Cumulate -- 6. How To Construct Realistic Data: Utilizing Stakeholders' Knowledge -- 7. No Smoking Without Firing Mechanisms: a 'Realistic' Consultation -- 8. Evaluation, Policy and Practice: Realizing the Potential -- 9. The New Rules of Realistic Evaluation. |
Responsibility: | Ray Pawson and Nick Tilley. |
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`This book is a must for those engaged in the field, providing a fully illustrated text on evaluation with numerous examples from the criminal justice system. Unusually, it offers something for the academic, practitioner and student alike. I found Pawson and Tilley's latest work on evaluation an enjoyable and informative read. For myself their `realistic evaluation' clarified and formalised a jumbled set of ideas I had already been developing. Although not everyone will agree with the methodology proposed by the authors, this book is a valuable read as it will cause most of us at least to review our methodological stance' - International Journal of Police Science and Management`This is an engaging book with a strong sense of voice and communicative task. The voice is sometimes strident, but always clear. Its communicative qualities are evident equally in its structure: lots of signposting for the reader within and across chapters' - Language Teaching Research`This provocative, elegant and highly insightful book focuses on the effective incorporation of actual practice into the formulation of evaluation methodology. What a pleasure to read sentences like: "The research act involves "learning" a stakeholder's theories, formalizing them, and "teaching" them back to that informant who is then in a position to comment upon, clarify and further refine the key ideas". Pawson and Tilley have given us a wise, witty and persuasive account of how real practitioner experience might be encouraged to intrude on (and modify) researchers' concepts about program processes and outcomes. This holds important promise for achieving something that is devoutly to be wished: closer interaction among at least some researchers and some policy makers' - Eleanor Chelimsky, Past-President of the American Evaluation Association`This is a sustained methodological argument by two wordly-wise social scientists. Unashamedly intellectual, theoretically ambitious yet with a clear but bounded conception of evaluation. It is articulate, occasionally eloquent and always iconoclastic, whilst eschewing "paradigm wars". The Pawson and Tilley "realist" call to arms threatens to take no prisoners among experimentalists, constructivists or pluralists. It is the kind of book that clarifies your thoughts, even when you disagree with everything they say' - Elliot Stern, The Tavistock Institute Read more...


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