Titlebook: Working with Assumptions in International Development Program Evaluation; With a Foreword by M Apollo M. Nkwake Book 2020Latest edition Spr

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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 their remarkable role in the generation of knowledge. This chapter discusses the nature of assumptions and groups them into ten categories according to Brookfield (Becoming a critic

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Why Are Assumptions Important?ions to describe the phenomenon at hand. Explication of assumptions is even more crucial in research methods used to test the theories. As Mitroff and Bonoma (Evaluation quarterly 2:235–60, 1978, p. 235) put it, “… the power of an experiment is only as strong as the clarity of the basic assumptions

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Diagnostic Assumptions address 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 policy scientific approach in explicating diagnostic assumptions

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Transformational Assumptionshe immediate results of a strategy, program, or intervention (outputs) are expected to lead to long-term desired changes. This chapter appraises the use of elicitation, a program theory matrix, and the theory of change approach to explicate transformational assumptions and proposes an integrative ap

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Challenges of Examining Assumptionsping and questioning the underlying assumptions of a program’s theory can be threatening to stakeholders for reasons outlined in this chapter. Therefore, the process should be done sensitively and collaboratively, so that it strengthens the program without dampening enthusiasm or weakening stakehold

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