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Looking for a practical introduction to the strategies and methods of qualitative evaluation? Ian Shaw shows how evaluation practice can utilize qualitative approaches to gain an understanding that more traditional quantitative approaches may fail to do. Three broad sections include discussions of: the foundations of evaluation and recent trends; evaluation and action programmes; and the practice of evaluation (including design, data collection and analysis). Exercises for each chapter show students how to apply the issues, approaches and methods illustrated.
Values, Validity and the Uses of Evaluation
Values, Validity and the Uses of Evaluation
CONTENTS
- Validity and values64
- Plausibility and credibility65
- Example 4.1 Hammersley on validity65
- Evaluation as a moral and practical activity67
- Reformist evaluation69
- Openly ideological standards69
- Questions about validity70
- Engineering or enlightenment?73
- Evaluation ethics74
- Example 4.2 Ethics: has positivist science failed?75
- Methodology and methods77
- Conclusion79
The preoccupations of Chapter 3 are central to all forms of disciplined social science inquiry. The specificities of paradigms, realism and ...
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