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Medientyp:
Buch
Titel:
Developmental evaluation
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applying complexity concepts to enhance innovation and use
Enthält:
Developmental evaluation defined and positioned
Developmental evaluation as a distinct purpose and niche
Thinking outside evaluation's boxes
Situation recognition and responsiveness : distinguishing simple, complicated, and complex
Systems thinking and complexity concepts for developmental evaluation
How the world is changed : a dialectic with thesis and antithesis, and developmental evaluation as the synthesis
The adaptive cycle and developmental evaluation
Developmental evaluation inquiry frameworks
Developmental evaluation bricolage : reflective practice, sensitizing concepts, action research, abduction, systems change, and retrospective developmental evaluation
Utilization-focused developmental evaluation : engagement practices, diverse designs, and adaptive methods
Anmerkungen:
Literaturverzeichnis Seite 341-353, Register
Beschreibung:
Developmental evaluation (DE) offers a powerful approach to monitoring and supporting social innovations by working in partnership with program decision makers. In this book, eminent authority Michael Quinn Patton shows how to conduct evaluations within a DE framework. Patton draws on insights about complex dynamic systems, uncertainty, nonlinearity, and emergence. He illustrates how DE can be used for a range of purposes: ongoing program development, adapting effective principles of practice to local contexts, generating innovations and taking them to scale, and facilitating rapid response in crisis situations. Students and practicing evaluators will appreciate the book's extensive case examples and stories, cartoons, clear writing style, "closer look" sidebars, and summary tables. Provided is essential guidance for making evaluations useful, practical, and credible in support of social change.