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Unpacking Black Boxes: Mechanisms and Theory Building in Evaluation

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Using Realistic Evaluation to understand how interventions work on dairy farms
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“I was pushed over the edge, but I didn't die” – A qualitative case study of Danish school children's food literacy at FOODcamp
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Improving the Rigor of Mechanistic Behavioral Science: The Introduction of the Checklist for Investigating Mechanisms in Behavior-Change Research (CLIMBR)
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Drivers of self-efficacy and learning in virtual reality training: The roles of presence, cognitive load, interest, and motivation
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Multi-disciplinary teams responding to child abuse: Common features and assumptions
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What works for whom: A realist synthesis of neighbourhood interventions for families in the community
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Mapping key actors in family support. A European perspective
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The contribution of the social network of care leavers to a successful transition to adulthood: A realist review
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Good communication with adults with learning disabilities in long-term care settings: A realist review
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Tightening the Dutch coffee shop policy: Evaluation of the private club and the residence criterion
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Under what conditions do payments for environmental services enable forest conservation in the Amazon? A realist synthesis
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A historical look at theories of change in early childhood education research
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A utilisation focussed and viable systems approach for evaluating technology supported learning
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Systemic evaluation of community environmental management programmes
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Ethical implications of resource-limited evaluations: Lessons from an INGO in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo
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Protocol: Realist synthesis of the impact of unemployment insurance policies on poverty and health
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Explaining how unexploded ordnance clearance enhances livelihoods in the Lao PDR
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Toward a model of school inspections in a polycentric system
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Towards program theory validation: Crowdsourcing the qualitative analysis of participant experiences
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Unintended outcomes evaluation approach: A plausible way to evaluate unintended outcomes of social development programmes
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Factors associated with the implementation of community-based peer-led health promotion programs: A scoping review
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Dealing with context in logic model development: Reflections from a realist evaluation of a community health worker programme in Nigeria
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Designing centralized waiting lists for attachment to a primary care provider: Considerations from a logic analysis
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The workings of an action learning program for building mental health promotion capacity – A realist evaluation
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Backward mapping from outcomes: Using a realist evaluation lens to evaluate an international aid program
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Methods in realist evaluation: A mapping review
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Theory-based evaluation of the impact of Master’s programmes in development studies: Insights from a mixed-methods and multicultural alumni action research project
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Equity-related ‘knots’ in theory of change development: Conceptualization and case illustrations
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Beyond the average effect of the innovation subsidies: Using case selection via matching to break impasse in delivering useful advice to policy makers
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Expanding tenure horizons in food policy research
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Tree collateral – A finance blind spot for small-scale forestry? A realist synthesis review
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Scenario planning meets frame analysis: Using citizens’ frames as test conditions for policy measures
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How to research the mechanisms of non-pharmacological cardiac interventions
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Evaluations of disaster education programs for children: A methodological review
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Institutional framework and administrative systems for effective disaster risk governance – Perspectives of 2013 Cyclone Phailin in India
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School mechanisms behind achievement differences: A systematic review of multilevel modelling studies in primary schools
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Understanding the convergence of social enterprise, digital health, and citizen engagement for co-producing integrated Person-Centred health services: A critical review and theoretical framework
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Interventions to reduce injuries when transferring patients: A critical appraisal of reviews and a realist synthesis
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Transition from children’s to adult services for young adults with life-limiting conditions: A realist review of the literature
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Facilitating transition from children’s to adult services for young adults with life-limiting conditions (TASYL): Programme theory developed from a mixed methods realist evaluation
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Can oral healthcare for older people be embedded into routine community aged care practice? A realist evaluation using normalisation process theory
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What works, for whom and under what circumstances? Using realist methodology to evaluate complex interventions in nursing: A scoping review
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Theory-based evaluation and programme theories in nursing: A discussion on the occasion of the updated Medical Research Council (MRC) Framework
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What makes a local accreditation programme successful and how? A rapid realist review and in-depth consultation with senior nursing leaders
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Why things happen – Developing the critical realist view of causal mechanisms
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Startup grants and the development of academic startup projects during funding: Quasi-experimental evidence from the German ‘EXIST – Business startup grant’
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A two-step approach to evaluating sustainability-related consumer education interventions
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Sustainable energy development: How can the tension between energy security and energy transition be measured and managed in South Africa?
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Is complexity just too complex?
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A research and development agenda for systematic reviews that ask complex questions about complex interventions
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Ecosystem accounting's potential to support coastal and marine governance
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A realist evaluation of a safe medication administration education programme
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How can pharmacists develop patient-pharmacist communication skills? A realist synthesis
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Évaluer autrement les parcours de soins coordonnés article 51 LFSS 2018 : une innovation, les protocoles réalistes
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Blockchain and supply chain relations: A transaction cost theory perspective
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Econometrics and archival data: Reflections for purchasing and supply management (PSM) research
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Pragmatisme et réalisme pour l’évaluation des interventions de santé publique
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Le protocole de l’intervention mapping : un processus méthodique pour élaborer, implanter et évaluer des programmes en promotion de la santé
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Towards an integrated framework for evaluating transformative innovation policy
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Review of internalization of externalities and dynamics of atmospheric emissions in energy sector of Baltic States
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In search for gold - The relevance of realist reviews and evaluations to pharmacy research and policy development
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Realist research to inform pharmacy practice and policy
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A realist review of programs fostering the resilience of healthcare students: What works, for whom and why?
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Why performance-based contracting failed in Uganda – An “open-box” evaluation of a complex health system intervention
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What are the components of complex interventions in healthcare? Theorizing approaches to parts, powers and the whole intervention
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Realist RCTs of complex interventions – An oxymoron
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Understanding the impact of school tobacco policies on adolescent smoking behaviour: A realist review
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Wilderness as therapeutic landscape in later life: Towards an understanding of place-based mechanisms for wellbeing through nature-adventure activity
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What does social prescribing look like in practice? A qualitative case study informed by practice theory
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Promotion de la santé et logiques de programme
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Évaluation réaliste pour la recherche en implémentation
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Design of OSH interventions: A model to improve their actual implementation
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Scaling up effective professional development: Toward successful adaptation through attention to underlying mechanisms
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Telemedicine for low resource settings: Exploring the generative mechanisms
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Opening the ‘black box’ of scenario planning through realist synthesis
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A synthetic control approach to examining the effects of major hurricane landfalls on the US long-haul dry van truckload spot market
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Fisheries’ Property Regimes and Environmental Outcomes: A Realist Synthesis Review
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Developing a middle-range theory to explain how cash transfers work to tackle the social determinants of health: A realist case study
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Understanding inclusive innovation processes in agricultural systems: A middle-range conceptual model
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Evaluating the outcomes of national suicide prevention strategies: evidence and challenges
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Process Tracing for Program Evaluation
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‘Upliftment’, friends and finance: everyday exchange repertoires and mobile money transfer in Kenya
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Let’s Get Real about Person- and Family-Centred Geriatric Home Care: A Realist Synthesis
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Community-Based Mental Health Intervention Skills: Task Shifting in Low- and Middle-Income Settings
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Une « écologie de l’évaluation » pour la Grande Transition ? Fondements de l’évaluation axée sur la causalité formelle
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Medicare Health Support Pilot Program.
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Research and Evaluation: The Present and the Future
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Indigenous Sentencing Courts in Two Australian States
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Improving Scaling Performance in Research for Development: Learning from a Realist Evaluation of the Scaling Readiness Approach
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School leader trust and collective teacher innovativeness: on individual and organisational ambidexterity’s mediating role
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How to measure the impact of place marketing activities: a methodological discussion
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Examining pro-equity redesigns of educational quasi-markets: a mechanism-based approach to their effects
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Realist approach to evaluating an interprofessional education program for medical students in clinical practice at a community hospital
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Learning from patients about patient-centredness: A realist review: BEME Guide No. 60
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Learning patient-centredness with simulated/standardized patients: A realist review: BEME Guide No. 68
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The Effects of School-Based Youth Work in Finland – A Realist Evaluation 1
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Evaluating Freedom of Information Laws: Objectives, Approaches, and Practical Considerations
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Youth Engagement in Pediatric Rehabilitation: Service Providers' Perceptions in a Real-Time Study of Solution-Focused Coaching for Participation Goals
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A realist change model for community-based perinatal mental health peer support from peer volunteers
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Unpacking policy instruments through a mechanistic analysis: school desegregation policies in Barcelona
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Looking beyond what works: exploring the potential of realist review to enhance implementation of complex aphasia interventions in real world settings
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Implementing structured and collaborative clinical planning for Comprehensive, High-Dose Aphasia Treatment (CHAT): a pilot implementation-feasibility study
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Feedback that works: a realist review of feedback interventions for written tasks
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A methodology to assess drought management as applied to six European case studies
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Empowering women’s entrepreneurship: an evidence synthesis of policy and practice in developing countries
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Social media empowerment in social movements: power activation and power accrual in digital activism
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A transactional framework for pediatric rehabilitation: shifting the focus to situated contexts, transactional processes, and adaptive developmental outcomes
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The complexities and synergies of engagement: an ethnographic study of engagement in outpatient pediatric rehabilitation sessions
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Opportunities, experiences, and outcomes of residential immersive life skills programs for youth with disabilities
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Comparing three coaching approaches in pediatric rehabilitation: contexts, outcomes, and mechanisms
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Delivering a hearing and vision support intervention for people with dementia: looking “under the hood” of the SENSE-Cog trial pre- and during the COVID-19 pandemic
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The ‘Black Box’ problem of orchestration: how to evaluate the performance of the Lima-Paris Action Agenda
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Mechanisms Shaping an Evaluation System—A Case Study of Poland 1999–2010
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Realistic evaluation as a volunteer tourism supply chain methodology
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