Working with Assumptions in International Development Program Evaluation With a Foreword by Michael Bamberger.: With a Foreword by Michael Bamberger. (2020)

• Record Type: Book
• Other Names: Nkwake, Apollo M
• Contents: Intro; Foreword; Preface; Endorsements; Contents; About the Author; Abbreviations and Acronyms; Chapter 1: Working with Assumptions: An Overview; Challenges of a Growing Profession; Assumptions in Responding to Evaluation's Challenges; The Focus of This Book; What's New?; References; Part I: Designing and Evaluating Complex Development Programs; Chapter 2: Attributes of Complex Development Programs; The More Complexity, the More Assumptions; Complexity Theory; Development Programs as Complex Systems; Other Characteristics of Complex Development Programs; Nonlinearity; Dynamism Dynamic StratificationComplexity and Certainty; Complexity and Assumptions in Program Evaluation; References; Chapter 3: Designing Complex Development Programs; Introduction; Stakeholder-Focused Approaches; The Change Perspective; Outcome-Focused Frameworks; The Logical Framework Approach; The ZOPP; Variations of the LFA; Dealing with Complexity and Assumptions in the Log Frame; Lessons from the LFA; The Need for Explicit Assumptions; Exploring Factors That Might Affect Program Success and the Likelihood of Those Factors; Theory of Change Approach (TOCA); Pathways of Change Outcome and PreconditionIndicators; Intervention; Assumptions; Theory of Change Versus Log Frame; Participatory Impact Pathways Analysis (PIPA); Comparing the LFA, TOCA, and PIPA; References; Chapter 4: Evaluating Complex Programs; Introduction; The DQuant Camp; The DQual Camp; What the DQuants Think of the DQuals; What the DQuals Think of the DQuants; An Example of the Paradigm Fights; The Need for an Integrated Approach; Adjusting Methods to Evaluation Questions; Evaluation Questions; A Crucial Part of Evaluation Planning Determining Which Research Design Is Suitable for an Evaluation QuestionEvaluator Skills; Methodological Triangulation; References; Part II: Evaluation Theory and Assumptions; Chapter 5: Theory in Evaluation; Introduction; General Theory; Social Science Theory; Evaluation Theory; Program Theory; Theory-Based Evaluation; References; Chapter 6: What Are Assumptions?; Introduction; Definitions of Assumptions; Types of Assumptions; Categories of Assumptions by Degree of Articulation; References; Chapter 7: Why Are Assumptions Important?; Introduction Assumptions Guide Argumentation, Evidence Generation, and ConclusionsAssumptions in the Selection of Methodology; Ontological Assumptions; Epistemological Assumptions; Assumptions as the Foci of Paradigms and Theories; Cognitive Elements; Cognitive Operators; Reality Tests; Cognitive Map of the Domain of Inquiry; Degree of Articulation; Metaphors; Assumptions in Theory; How Assumptions Operate in a Theory; Assumptions and a Theory's Worth; Explicating Assumptions; References; Part III: Explicating Tacit Program Assumptions; Chapter 8: Diagnostic Assumptions; Introduction
• Edition: 2nd ed
• Publisher Details: Cham : Springer
• Publication Date: 2020
• Extent: 1 online resource (223 p.)
• Subjects: 001.42; Evaluation -- Methodology; Evaluation -- Methodology; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9783030330040; 3030330044
• Related ISBNs: 9783030330033
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