Realistic Evaluation Emelie Wiklund Special Education Department Midwestern State

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Realistic Evaluation Emelie Wiklund Special Education Department Midwestern StateRealistic Evaluation shows how program evaluation needs to be, and can be bettered. It presents a profound yet highly readable critique of current evaluation practice, and goes on to introduce a `manifesto' and `handbook' for a fresh approach. The main body of this book is devoted to the articulation of a new evaluation paradigm, which promises greater validity and utility from the findings of evaluation studies. The authors call this new approach