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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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  • Learning from research: Systematic reviews for informing policy decisions

    This guide from the Alliance for Useful Evidence is an introduction to systematic review and the necessary steps that should be considered as a part of the process.
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  • Dr. Richard Kreuger on qualitative listening

    In this interview in The Listening Resource blog (August 29th, 2013), Susan Eliot talks to Dr.
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  • Webinar recording: When the ‘field’ is online – qualitative data collection

    This NVIVO webinar explores ways that researchers can adapt their research approach using online data collection when face to face fieldwork isn’t possible.
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  • Methods for conducting systematic reviews

    This guide, from the EPPI-Centre, looks at the processes involved when conducting Systematic Reviews. Covering the key steps involved, the guide focuses on four&nb
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  • Introducing systematic reviews

    This is Chapter 1 of the book An Introduction to Systematic Reviews.
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  • Some nuts and bolts questions about coding

    This guest blog by Helen Marshall springs from discussions of the Qualitative Interest Group (QIG) that Helen coordinates. QIG meets monthly in Melbourne Australia to discuss issues around researching with qualitative data.&n
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  • Analyzing cause and effect in environmental assessments: Using weighted evidence from the literature

    This article describes the Eco Evidence analysis framework, a type of causal criteria analysis that uses available evidence to assess support for a hypothesis.
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  • L’évaluation en contexte de développement

    Ce manuel est destiné aux personnes souhaitant s’initier à l’évaluation de programmes, en particulier en contexte de développement et de coopération internationale. À cet égard, tout en déroulant le fil d’une démarche évaluative classique, il présente…
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  • Challenges for evidence-based environmental management: What is acceptable and sufficient evidence of causation?

    This paper explores the use of the Eco Evidence framework in answering the question "what is acceptable and sufficient evidence of causation?" in environmental assessments.
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  • Toonlet

    This web-based application makes it possible to draw cartoons, by creating characters and then placing them into the panels of a cartoon with appropriate text.
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  • Meta-analysis

    Meta-analysis is a statistical method for combining numeric evidence from experimental (and sometimes quasi-experimental studies) to produce a weighted average effect size.  
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  • Cartoons

    Cartoon images can be used by evaluators to an understanding of program impact, scenes of program implementation, main findings or issues.
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  • Memos and journals for analysis

    Memos and journals are useful tools to support reflection, record-keeping, and rigour throughout qualitative data analysis.
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  • Systematic reviews

    This video lecture given by Dr Philip Davies for the Asian Development Bank (ADB) and the International Initiative for Impact Evaluation (3ie) provides guidance for using a comprehensive systematic review to present the balance of research
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  • Introduction to qualitative research methodology

    This manual, written by Karina Kielmann, Fabian Cataldo and Janet Seeley, aims to give readers of a non-scientific background an introduction to key theoretical concepts and methodologies in qualitative research.
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  • Clearing the fog: New tools for improving the credibility of impact claims

    This IIED Briefing Paper shows that the methods of process tracing and Bayesian updating can facilitate a dialogue between theory and evidence that allows for the assessing of the degree of confidence in ‘contribution claims’ in a transpare
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  • Thematic coding

    Thematic coding is a form of qualitative analysis that involves recording or identifying passages of text or images that are linked by a common theme or idea allowing you to index the text into categories and therefore establish a “framewor
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