The Centrality of Practice to Evaluation
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12470765 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Thomas A Schwandt (0000-0002-9575-3499, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2005 |
| Volume | 26 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 95-105 |
| Publication date | 2005-03-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | American Journal of Evaluation (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1098-2140 • E-ISSN: 1557-0878 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1177/1098214004273184 |
| OpenAlex | W1996249354 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 30 |
| References cited | 11 |
There is a strong tendency for evidence-based approaches to social practices to view these practices as imperfect devices for delivering social services. Practices are regarded as in need of repair by evaluation (and research) that can deliver the necessary science-based solution to the problems of practice. This article presents a different view of practices as material and linguistic events in which activities and relationships are constituted and unfold in interaction and in which people change and develop, and it argues for restoring this view of practice to evaluation. The article discusses two different ways in which notions of evidence based, practice, and evaluation are related and suggests what a genuinely practice-oriented approach to evaluation entails
Best practice · Centrality · Engineering ethics · Epistemology · Imperfect · Linguistics · Management science · Political science · Public relations · Social practice · Sociology · Community Health and Development · Computer Science · Engineering · Evaluation and Performance Assessment · Law · Psychology · Social Work Education and Practice
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| Unique citing works | 30 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1,43 |
| Citation span | 2005 - 2025 (21) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 30 |