Science-based evaluations for program improvement (English)

Capacity development and learning are key to the World Bank's success in poverty reduction, and the World Bank supports both. Four assumptions drive the emphasis on increasing the scientific nature of the evaluations: the use of science-based methods improves the validity of evaluation studies. Science-based methods improve reliability, which means that quantitative results can be reproduced when repeated measurements are taken, or that different...

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Tobin,Richard J.;
Document Date
2005/05/01
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Brief
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40580
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1
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1
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World,
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Other,
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2010/07/01
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Disclosed
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Science-based evaluations for program improvement
Keywords
mixed methods

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Science-based evaluations for program improvement (English). WBI Evaluation Brief series Washington, DC: World Bank. http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/667121468165899050

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