Realistic Evaluation

By Fadhel Kaboub. 2004

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Subfields: Artificial Intelligence, Management Science and Operations Research, Sociology and Political Science

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Payment by results and social impact bonds in the criminal justice sector: New challenges for the concept of evidence-based policy? (2011, background): “Scientific realists therefore argue greater attention must be paid to ‘contextmechanism-outcome’ configurations (Pawson and Tilley, 1997).”
Economic Pathways to Women’s Empowerment and Active Citizenship: What Does The Evidence From Bangladesh Tell Us? (2017, methodology): “Email: N.Kabeer@lse.ac.uk © 2016 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group relationships work (Pawson & Tilly, 1997).”
Process evaluation of complex interventions: Medical Research Council guidance (2015, background): “16 Complex interventions work by introducing mechanisms that are sufficiently suited to their context to produce change, 17 while causes of problems targeted by interventions may differ from one context to another.”
The Motivational Atmosphere in Youth Sport: Coach, Parent, and Peer Influences on Motivation in Specializing Sport Participants (2010, neutral): “…the full presentation of quotes and illustrations, but in an attempt to demonstrate the transparency and authenticity of the research, numerous quotes are presented and explicit links are made between the interpretive account and the findings of other related studies (Pawson & Tilley, 1997).”
Evaluating batterer counseling programs: A difficult task showing some effects and implications (2004, background): “An alternative view is that both pure and quasi-experiments are not sufficiently ‘‘realistic’’ (Dobash & Dobash, 2000; Pawson & Tilly, 1997; Van Voohis, Cullen, & Applegate, 1995).”
Principles for Conducting Critical Realist Case Study Research in Information Systems (2012, background): “The principles are derived directly from the ontological and epistemological assumptions of critical realism.”
Unpacking Black Boxes: Mechanisms and Theory Building in Evaluation (2010, methodology): “Although Chen popularized the term ‘‘mechanism’’ in the early 1990s, in our view, a detailed treatment of the concept of ‘‘mechanism’’ did not appear in the literature until the publication of the book Realistic Evaluation by Pawson and Tilley (1997).2 What makes the approach of Pawson and Tilley to”
Realist review (2021, methodology): “When studying a social programme, mechanisms are a combination of the resources being offered by the programme and the reasoned response the programme users have to those resources (Pawson & Tilley, 1997).”
Energy poverty and social relations: A capabilities approach (2019, background): “In the realist methodological tradition [42,49], we see this as the beginning of a more substantive effort to craft a systemic understanding”
The Embeddedness of Social Entrepreneurship: Understanding Variation Across Local Communities (2010, positive): “This setting allows deeper reflections on and isolation of the social mechanisms that contingently generate the empirically observable phenomena of poverty and the mechanisms that SEOs generate to address it (Pawson and Tilley, 1997, Seelos and Mair, 2010).”
Drivers, barriers and social considerations for AI adoption in business and management: A tertiary study (2020, neutral): “To explicitly acknowledge the sociotechnical nature of technologies such as robotic surgery, P27 uses the "realistic evaluation" framework [27] in combination with the SLR.”
The role of assessment in competency-based medical education (2010, background): “‘‘Realistic evaluation’’ and the (UK) Medical Research Council’s strategy on studying complex interventions are two models that warrant attention for medical education research (Pawson & Tilley 1997; Campbell et al. 2007).”
Group model building effectiveness: a review of assessment studies † (2002, background): “Pawson and Tilley (1997) point out that, in order to find significant patterns, it is important to assess meaningful differences between studies.”