Evaluation Research: An Introduction to Principles, Methods and Practice

by Alan Clarke (Author), Alan Clarke (Author)

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  Paperback
  1999

  $49.14

  Providing students and practitioners with a comprehensive introduction to evaluation research, this book shows how social research methods and methodologies can be applied in a variety of evaluation contexts. The author:

  - illustrates the contribution both quantitative and qualitative methods can make to evaluation;

  - stresses the important part played by theory in the evaluation enterprise;

  - introduces some of the conceptual, methodological and practical problems encountered when undertaking this type of applied research, especially in the areas of criminal justice, health care and education.