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The paradigm dialog
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ISBN: 0803932359 9780803932357 Year: 1990 Publisher: London Sage

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"In Fourth Generation Evaluation, Guba and Lincoln present a strong, unequivocal argument for the epistemological, methodological, and ethical superiority of their refined constructivist inquiry paradigm for the political and practical demands of program evaluation." --Jennifer Greene, Cornell University "I would warmly recommend it as stimulating and challenging reading." --Systems Practice "I consider Fourth Generation Evaluation to be an exceptionally daring and insightful book. It has done more than most books to further loosen the grip of liberal, instrumental ''common sense'' (i.e., ideology) that has constricted the field of evaluation for the past 30 years. The book's idealism is energizing and must only be matched, as the authors certainly know, by yet more hard-headed analysis. Its radical ambitions are inspiring if not always apparently achievable. However, fair is fair: radical ends demand radical means." --Evaluation Practice Fourth Generation Evaluation represents a monumental shift in evaluation practice. Guba and Lincoln point to the inherent problems faced by previous generations of evaluators--politics, ethical dilemmas, imperfections and gaps, inconclusive deductions--and lay the blame for failure and nonutilization at the feet of the unquestioned reliance on the scientific/positivist paradigm of research. Fourth Generation Evaluation, a more informed and sophisticated approach, moves beyond science to include the myriad human, political, social, cultural, and contextual elements that are involved. Based upon relativism, a unity between knower and known, and a subjective epistemology, the authors show how fourth generation evaluation unites the evaluator and the stakeholders in an interaction that creates the product of the evaluation. Differing from previously existing generations, this new approach moves evaluation to a new level, whose key dynamic is negotiation. The constructivist paradigm is espoused by the authors and shown to offer multi

How to design a program evaluation.
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ISBN: 080393128X 9780803931282 Year: 1987 Volume: 3 Publisher: Newbury Park Sage

Designing social inquiry : scientific inference in qualitative research.
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ISBN: 0691034710 0691034702 9780691034713 9780691034706 Year: 1994 Publisher: Princeton Princeton university press

How to use qualitative methods in evaluation
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ISBN: 0803931298 9780803931299 Year: 1987 Volume: 4 Publisher: Newbury Park Sage

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