Titlebook: Working with Assumptions in International Development Program Evaluation; With a Foreword by M Apollo M. Nkwake Book 20131st edition Spring

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What are Assumptions?To understand the nature of underlying assumptions, it is necessary to review the notion of assumptions in general and its remarkable role in the generation of knowledge. This chapter discusses the nature of assumptions and groups in 10 categories of assumptions according to Brookfield’s (Becoming a

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Diagnostic Assumptionsddress a problem is based on the causes of that problem, diagnostic assumptions are crucial to a normative theory and need to be examined from design, implementation, and evaluation perspectives. This chapter appraises the use of the . in explicating diagnostic assumptions. An Alternative Causes App

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Prescriptive Assumptions beliefs of what could be the best ways to address the problem or need. The use of goal evaluation and strategy assessment for explicating prescriptive assumptions is appraised. The alternative strategies approach is proposed.

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Challenges of Explicating Assumptionss (Weiss New Approaches to Evaluating CommunityInitiatives, Theory, Measurement and Analysis, vol 2, pp. 65–92, 1995). Because developing and questioning the underlying assumptions of a program’s theory can be threatening to participants, it is important that the process be done in a sensitive and c

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Challenges of Explicating Assumptionsollaborative way, so that it strengthens the program without dampening enthusiasm or weakening stakeholder commitment. Explicating implicit assumptions is something stakeholders may be uncomfortable with for different reasons. Some of these are outlined below.