Learning Communities: International Journal of Learning in Social Contexts - Number 14, September 2014 - Special Issue: Evaluation

Foreword: Ruth Wallace Guest Editorial: Emma Williams On being realistic about reducing the prevalence and impacts of youth sexual violence and abuse in two Australian Indigenous communities - Nick Tilley, Susan Rayment-McHugh, Stephen Smallbone, Martina Wardell, Dimity Smith, Troy Allard, Richard Wortley, Donald Findlater, Anna Stewart & Ross Homel Telling Context from Mechanism in Realist Evaluation: The role for theory - Hannah Jolly & Lesley Jolly The case for experimental design in realist evaluation - Andrew Hawkins Realist methodology in practice: translational findings from two realist syntheses - Shane Boris Pointing Seeing is believing? Experiences of using systematic social observation as an evaluation method - Rick Brown When the best laid plans go astray: a case study in pragmatic approaches to evaluation - Hayley Boxall Improving the evaluation of crime prevention and reduction programs through research-practitioner partnerships - Anthony Morgan Program evaluation in a cross-cultural context: Action research, program logic and youth justice in Thailand - Matthew J Willis & Adam M Tomison Looking back, moving forward: the place of evaluation at the Tangentyere Council Research Hub - Matthew Campbell, Denise Foster & Vanessa Davis Aboriginal contributions to the evaluation of housing (and to postcolonial theory) - Michael Christie & Matthew Campbell Evaluation Methods for Vulnerable Populations: The Case for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing - Kathryn Cairns, Patrick McLaren, Janet Clinton & Ruth Aston Informed consent in evaluation: informed of what, exactly? - Emma Williams Measuring the unmeasured in educational programs: filling in the blanks through evaluation - John Guenther