Evaluating Public Programmes: Contexts and Issues

ISBN-13: 9781138739581 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 106 str.

Ian Shaw

Opis

This title was first published in 2000:  Examining key issues arising in evaluation research and in particular the implications of context for evaluation findings and methodology, this book employs case study illustrations to examine definitions and uses, experimental logic, methods and difficulties in experimental evaluations and the importance of incorporating both process and context in evaluation research design.

Recenzje

’...a welcome addition to the literature on a subject around which assumptions of simpliciy abound.’ Social Work Education ’The book is highly useful for efforts to understand the challenges of evaluation research...The polemical style of the book fits its content well. The book is not at all boring...highly relevant for a different societal and political context.’ European Journal of Social Work

Spis treści

Contents: Introduction; The logic and development of evaluation; Issues in evaluating public services; Defining the goals of public services; Issues arising from the commissioning of research: case studies; The politics of evaluation; Bibliography.

O autorze

Ian Shaw, University of Nottingham