ABSTRACT
Research or evaluation design is a set of strategies and tools that help us to answer very practical questions, particularly questions about cause and effect. In Chapter 4, we help you to think through the questions you are trying to answer, then help you to create a design to answer those questions. In order to help you design your research or evaluation, we provide five in-depth examples of how others have investigated relational coordination, some that test causal relationships between relational coordination and its outcomes, some that test causal relationships between relational coordination and the interventions that are expected to strengthen it, and some that test both.
