Yesterday Aoife O'Grady from the Department of Transport gave us a very thought-provoking thought on the specific challenges of policy evaluation in the domain of transport.
Here are links to the articles that she cited:
Dept for Transport Social research on Attitudes to Road Pricing, Climate Change and the Role of the Car - see http://www.dft.gov.uk/pgr/scienceresearch/social/
Blamey and MacKenzie (2007 "Theories of Change and Realistic Evaluation: Peas in a pod or apples and oranges?" in Evaluation, 2007; 13; 439
Connell, J.P., A.C. Kubisch, L.B. Schorr and C.H. Weiss (1995) New Approaches to Evaluating Community Initiatives, vol. 1, Concepts, Methods and Contexts. Washington, DC: Aspen Institute.
Fulbright-Anderson, K., A. Kubisch and J. Connell, eds (1998) New Approaches to Evaluating Community Initiatives, vol. 2, Theory, Measurement, and Analysis. Washington, DC: Aspen Institute.
Pawson, R. and N. Tilley (1997) Realistic Evaluation. London: SAGE
Weiss, C.H. (1998) Evaluation: Methods for Studying Programs and Policies. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall.
thanks dave and thanks to aoife for a great talk. I will post later on some articles that might be useful to discuss. Perhaps we could think of a way of aggregating them?
ReplyDeleteAnd thanks also to Aoife if you are watching. Really enjoyable talk.
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