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  • Realist synthesis: an introduction

    This guide, written by Ray Pawson, Trisha Greenhalgh, Gill Harvey and Kieran Walshe for the ESRC Research Methods Programme, provides an introduction to using realist synthesi
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  • Objectives-Based Evaluation (OBE) for impact investing

    Bob Picciotto is a former Director General of the Independent Evaluation Group which oversees evaluation in the International Finance Corporation, an agency dedicated to the promotion of private sector development in developi
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  • Lessons from a trial of the Success Case Method

    The Success Case Method approach is useful for documenting stories of impact and for understanding the factors that help or hinder impact.
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  • 2017 International realist conference

    We've got our head in realism this week, partly because early-bird registrations for the 2017 International Realist Conference close soon, and partly because we've been shown Chris Lysy's realist cartoon series (commissioned by the Rameses
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  • Creating Rubrics

    This web page gives detailed guided assistance in creating rubrics.
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  • The rubric revolution

    Three linked presentations from Jane Davidson, Nan Wehipeihana & Kate McKegg explaining how rubrics can be used to ensure evaluations validly answer evaluative questions. 
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  • Evidence-based policy: A realist perspective

    This book, written by Ray Pawson, provides a critique of the meta-analytic approach and argues that the realist synthesis is a better way of understanding program theory, therefore enabling properly targeted policies to address the con
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  • Evaluation rubrics: how to ensure transparent and clear assessment that respects diverse lines of evidence

    This report provides a detailed description of an evaluation, written by Judy Oakden, as part of the first BetterEvaluation writeshop process, led by Irene Guijt.
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  • Rubrics

    A rubric is a framework that sets out criteria and standards for different levels of performance and describes what performance would look like at each level.
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  • Guest blog: Why rubrics are useful in evaluations

    In Aoteoroa New Zealand the use of rubrics has been adopted across a numb
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  • 52 weeks of BetterEvaluation: Week 11: Using rubrics

    The term "rubric" is often used in education to refer to a systematic way of setting out the expectations for students in terms of what would constitute poor, good and excellent performance.
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