This article draws on the Troubled Families Programme (TFP) to highlight the ways in which particular contexts – such as socioeconomic and symbolic structures – are neglected in forms of evaluation with an establishment orientation. The article problematises two key aspects of decontextualised evaluation: firstly, the privileging of pre-determined relations of cause and effect; and secondly, the unproblematized framing of policy problems. More contextualised forms of evaluation are presented as a way to open up boundaries of investigation. Lastly, it is argued that an anti-naturalist foundation for evaluation can broaden the scope of learning beyond the original framing of a policy.

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'我们知道它有效。. .'：问题家庭计划和去语境化政策评估的预先确定的边界判断

本文利用问题家庭计划 (TFP) 来强调特定背景（例如社会经济和象征结构）在具有机构导向的评估形式中被忽视的方式。这篇文章对去上下文化评估的两个关键方面提出了问题：第一，预先确定的因果关系的特权；其次，政策问题的框架没有问题。提出了更多情境化的评估形式，作为打开调查边界的一种方式。最后，有人认为，反自然主义的评估基础可以扩大学习范围，超出政策的原始框架。