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Synopsis
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.