Dear listmembers
I would very much recommend the Quality in Qualitative Evaluation: A
Framework for Assessing Research Evidence, Do have a look.
Best wishes
Jane Sandall
list moderator
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Dear Colleague
The Government Chief Social Researcher's Office has recently published
a
number of reports:
Large Scale Social Experimentation in Britain: What Can and Cannot be
Learnt
from the Employment Retention and Advancement Demonstration? The
Employment
Retention and Advancement (ERA) Demonstration project is a major new
welfare-to-work social experiment, the largest random allocation
evaluation
ever mounted in Great Britain. This paper draws on experience gained
in
designing the ERA Demonstration to explore the strengths and
limitations of
social experimentation for policy evaluation and analysis, and to
highlight
some of the key issues that need to be considered in designing random
allocation experiments.
http://www.strategy.gov.uk/su/large/index.htm
Quality in Qualitative Evaluation: A Framework for Assessing Research
Evidence presents the findings of a methodological review of quality
standards in qualitative evaluation methods. The report provides
guidance
for assessing the quality of qualitative evaluation and research
studies.
The review was carried out by the National Centre for Social Research
for
the Government Social Researcher's Office in the Strategy Unit.
http://www.strategy.gov.uk/su/qual/index.htm
Employer Perspectives on the Recruitment, Retention and Advancement of
Low-pay, Low-status Employees Low-skill, low-status jobs in the UK can
constitute a first step on a ladder to rising lifetime earnings, in
which
experience, tacit skills, contacts and know-how can be acquired and
used to
promote a pay-off later. However, in practice, they provide little or
no
basis for substantial advancement through the labour market. The
evidence
suggests that short-term mobility in the wage distribution is limited
and
that individuals who do progress do not generally progress very far.
http://www.strategy.gov.uk/su/employer/index.htm
Further information about the Government Chief Social Researchers
Office,
and links to other recent reports, can be found on the Strategy Unit
website: http://www.strategy.gov.uk/output/page3666.asp
The Strategy Unit
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