In todays world, with its preoccupation with impact assessments and results-based management, program evaluation is all too often framed as an affirmation of an official narrative rather than as a source of alternatives. The power of case study is its insistence on opening up rather than...

Using the example of a policy evaluation sponsored by the ESRC of one of its Research Initiatives (Information Technology in Educational Research — INTER) the case is argued for naturalistic evaluation in preference to traditional approaches. The data thus generated can provide a basis for...

"Front Cover" -- "Case Study Evaluation: Past, Present and Future Challenges" -- "Copyright page" -- "Contents" -- "List of Contributors" -- "Preface" -- "References" -- "Introduction" -- "References" -- "Case Study, Methodology and Educational Evaluation: A Personal View" -- "Editors’...