Evaluation Research: An Introduction to Principles, Methods and Practice

By Alan Clarke and Alan Clarke

Book Overview

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.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0761950958
• ISBN13: 9780761950950
• Release Date: December 1999
• Publisher: Sage Publications UK
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.3" x 9.2"