Case study evaluation past, present and future challenges

In todays world, with its preoccupation with impact assessments and results-based management, program evaluation is all too often framed as an affirmation of an official narrative rather than as a source of alternatives. The power of case study is its insistence on opening up rather than suppressin...

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Other Authors Russell, Jill, Greenhalgh, Trisha, Kushner, Saville
Format Electronic eBook
LanguageEnglish
Published Bingley, U.K. : Emerald, 2015.
SeriesAdvances in program evaluation ; v. 15.
Subjects
Education > Evaluation.
elektronické knihy
electronic books
Online AccessFull text
ISBN9781784410636
ISSN1474-7863 ;
DOI10.1108/S1474-7863201515
Physical Description1 online resource (xv, 251 p.)

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Table of Contents:
  • Case study, methodology and educational evaluation: a personal view / Clement Adelman
  • Letters from a headmaster / Barry MacDonald
  • Storytelling and educational understanding / Terry Denny
  • Case study as antidote to the literal / Saville Kushner
  • Thinking about case studies in 3-D : researching the NHS clinical commissioning landscape in England / Julia Segar, Kath Checkland, Anna Coleman, Imelda McDermott
  • The case for evaluating process and worth : evaluation of a programme for carers and people with dementia / Samantha Abbato
  • The collapse of "primary care" in medical education : a case study of Michigan's community/university health partnerships project / Brian McKenna
  • 'Lead' standard evaluation / David Jenkins
  • Freedom from the rubric / Robert Stake
  • Twice-told tales? How public inquiry could inform n of 1 case study research / Trisha Greenhalgh
  • Evaluation as the co-construction of knowledge : case studies of place-based leadership and public sector innovation / Jo Howard, Arturo Flores, Robin Hambleton
  • Evaluation noir : the other side of the experience / Acacia Cochise, Saville Kushner.

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