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• 1 A History of Evaluation in 28.5 pages

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• law of the hammer in relation to evaluation

  when you give a child a hammer, he or she will soon discover the universal truth that everything needs pounding. In a similar manner, everything needs evaluation

• expectation of evaluation research

  all policies could be evaluated and this that failed could be weeded out and those which worked could be further refined  as part of an ongoing and , progressive research research program ---> FAILED

• paradoxical predicament of evaluation

  elastic burgeoning presence stretching its way around the A to Z of human institutions
  lack-lustre research, lack of cumulation of results, lack of a voice in policy making

• Campbell's OXO model

  pre-test intevention/treatment post-test

• political bottom-line to evaluation can be expressed in two ways

  to acknowledge that the very act of engaging in evaluation constitutes a political statement (evaluation research is reformist)
  evaluations are also petty political (tend to treat certain social/historical/political configurations as given, and programs are directed at 'reducing' problems within systems or ensuring better operation of those systems. 

• standards proposed by US Joint Committee on Standards for Educational Evaluation

  utility
  feasibility
  propriety
  accuracy

• utilization-focused evaluation (pragmatic) critical issue

  he who pays the researcher calls the methodological tune

• threefold distinction of evaluation activities

  analysis related to the conceptualization and design of interventions
  monitoring program implementation
  assessment of program utility

• 2 chapter 2,3,4 (until 84)

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• logic in classic experimental design

  identical to begin with, only difference between experimental and control groups lies in application of initiative

• Pawson and Tilley: Engine for programs success comes when:

  horse chooses the right course
  
  When the whom comes together with the right circumstances