Summary
Contents
What is qualitative secondary analysis? How can it be most effectively applied in social research? This timely and accomplished book offers readers a well informed, reliable guide to all aspects of qualitative secondary analysis. The book: Defines secondary analysis. Distinguishes between quantitative and qualitative secondary analysis. Maps the main types of qualitative secondary analysis. Covers the key ethical and legal issues. Offers a practical guide to effective research. Sets the agenda for future developments in the subject. Written by an experienced researcher and teacher with a background in sociology, the book is a comprehensive and invaluable introduction to this growing field of social research.
Evaluation Studies
Evaluation Studies
Evaluation studies assess the processes and consequences of innovations in social policy or organisations.
Section Outline: Evaluation studies as applied social research. Measuring and explaining social change. Problems with ‘external’ evaluators. Programme specifications driven by evaluation: ‘measurable outcomes’. Focusing on ‘process’ or ‘outcome’? Working with evaluatees. Evaluating programmes: who is involved; how are they involved; did it work? Power and politics in evaluation. Example: the Health Education Authority.
Evaluative research is undertaken to assess the worth or success of something: a programme, a policy or a project. Social evaluation is not a method or technique like social surveys or participant observation. It is a particular and increasingly common type of applied social research which might employ any of the other research methods discussed in this ...