Combining Campbell Standards and the Realist Evaluation Approach: The Best of Two Worlds?

Autor/inn/en	van der Knaap, Leontien M.; Leeuw, Frans L.; Bogaerts, Stefan; Nijssen, Laura T. J.
Titel	Combining Campbell Standards and the Realist Evaluation Approach: The Best of Two Worlds?
Quelle	In: American Journal of Evaluation, 29 (2008) 1, S.48-57 (10 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1098-2140
DOI	10.1177/1098214007313024
Schlagwörter	Research Methodology; Evaluation Methods; Criminology; Evaluation Research; Social Psychology; Program Descriptions; Crime Prevention; Review (Reexamination); Program Validation; Program Improvement; Program Development + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Research method; Forschungsmethode; Kriminologie; Evaluationsforschung; Sozialpsychologie; Wiederholungsprüfung; Programmplanung
Abstract	This article presents an approach to systematic reviews that combines the Campbell Collaboration Crime and Justice standards and the realist notion of contexts-mechanisms-outcomes (CMO) configurations. Both approaches have their advantages and drawbacks, and the authors will make a case for combining both approaches to profit from their advantages without having to deal with their separate weaknesses. They proceed to discuss how their approach should be put into practice and illustrate its use by giving a concise description of an example from their own work on the effects of prevention of violence. The authors conclude with a discussion of the strengths and weaknesses of their suggested approach and state that combining Campbell standards and the realist evaluation approach should be done more often. (Contains 2 notes.) (Author).
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Update	2017/4/10