Theory-based evaluation in practice - What do we learn?
Theory-based evaluation in practice - What do we learn?
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DOI：
10.1177/0193841x0002400404
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发表时间：
2000-08-01
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0.9
通讯作者：
Weiss, CH
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作者：
Birckmayer, JD;Weiss, CH
基于理论的评估（TBE）探讨了项目成功或失败的方式和原因。TEE的拥护者声称，它产生的信息在传统的过程和结果研究中不可用。本文分析了6篇TBE的研究成果。它发现，论文的作者并不总是明确的关系，他们的数据的理论程序。然而，在一个或多个案例中，TEE发现了不必要的计划组件，定位了中间变化，提出了新的问题，促成了范式转变，突出了成功的试点计划的难度，并为评估提供了清晰度和重点。有趣的是，在这些研究中，没有一项研究的原始理论是完全正确的。为TEE的未来的经验教训。
Theory-based evaluation (TBE) explores the how and why of program success or failure. Advocates of TEE claim that it produces information unavailable in traditional process and outcome studies. This article examines six published papers of TBEs. It finds that the authors of the papers do not always make explicit the relation of their data to the theory of the program. Nevertheless, it was evident in one or more cases that TEE identified unnecessary program components, located intermediary changes, raised new questions, contributed to a paradigm shift, highlighted the difficulties of talking successful pilot programs to scale, and provided clarity and focus for the evaluation. Interestingly, in none of the studies was the original theory completely right. Lessons for the future of TEE are drawn.