Top Results for Evaluation
Egon G. Guba was an American researcher whose work influenced educational evaluation and qualitative research methodology. With Yvonna S. Lincoln, he wrote Naturalistic Inquiry, published in 1985, and advanced a constructivist approach in which realities are understood as socially formed and investi...
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Constructivist evaluation and qualitative inquiry contributions important; stronger in education research than sociology canon.
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Ray Pawson is a British sociologist associated with realist evaluation and realist approaches to evidence synthesis. With Nick Tilley, he developed an evaluation framework that asks what works, for whom, in what circumstances, and through which underlying mechanisms, rather than seeking only an aver...
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Realist evaluation is influential in policy research; strong methods niche, moderate sociology canon status.
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