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    Science of Evaluation: A Realist Manifesto

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    ISBN: 9781446252437
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    AuthorPAWSON RAY
    Pub Date18/02/2013
    BindingPaperback
    Pages240
    Publisher: SAGE PUBLICATIONS LTD
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    Always engaging and relentlessly pushing the boundaries, this is a must-read from a pioneer in realist research.

    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.