Honoring Lived Experience: Life Histories as a Realist Evaluation Method

Autor/inn/en	Richardson, Emma Z. L.; Phillips, Mary; Colom, Alejandra; Nichols, Jennica
Titel	Honoring Lived Experience: Life Histories as a Realist Evaluation Method
Quelle	In: American Journal of Evaluation, 40 (2019) 4, S.509-532 (24 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1098-2140
DOI	10.1177/1098214018796319
Schlagwörter	Experience; Autobiographies; Personal Narratives; Evaluation Methods; Outcome Measures; Indigenous Populations; Females; Adolescents; Foreign Countries; Educational Attainment; Rural Areas; Educational Opportunities; Program Evaluation; Summative Evaluation; Pilot Projects; Guatemala + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Erfahrung; Autobiography; Autobiografie; Autobiographie; Erlebniserzählung; Sinti und Roma; Weibliches Geschlecht; Adolescent; Adolescence; Adoleszenz; Jugend; Jugendalter; Jugendlicher; Ausland; Bildungsabschluss; Bildungsgut; Rural area; Ländlicher Raum; Bildungsangebot; Bildungschance; Programme evaluation; Programmevaluation; Pilot project; Modellversuch; Pilotprojekt
Abstract	Program participants have been largely excluded as an evidence source in realist evaluations. We test whether and how lived experience as described through life history interviews with pilot program participants can be used as a valid and unique source of data for elucidating context (C)--mechanism (M)--outcome (O) configurations and informing program theory. We use data about "Opening Opportunities," a program for indigenous adolescent girls in rural Guatemala, to build a theory of change relating to educational attainment. Life histories yield a rich data set that allows probing of quintessential realist questions; capture subtle, hard-to-measure, and longer term contextual factors and mechanisms; elucidate co-occurring CM and MO dyads; help decipher individual- and structural-level contexts; and provide unique additions and refinements to the program theory. Importantly, this work expands potential evidence sources to inform program theory by including the unique insights from those with lived experience. (As Provided).
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Update	2020/1/01