Developmental evaluation
Subtitle: applying complexity concepts to enhance innovation and use
By: by Michael Quinn Patton.
Publisher: Guilford Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9781606238721; 9781606238868
Subjects: Project management -- Evaluation; Organizational effectiveness -- Measurement
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Developmental evaluation defined and positioned; title: Developmental evaluation as a distinct purpose and niche; title: Thinking outside evaluation's boxes; title: Situation recognition and responsiveness : distinguishing simple, complicated, and complex; title: Systems thinking and complexity concepts for developmental evaluation; title: How the world is changed : a dialectic with thesis and antithesis, and developmental evaluation as the synthesis; title: The adaptive cycle and developmental evaluation; title: Developmental evaluation inquiry frameworks; title: Developmental evaluation bricolage : reflective practice, sensitizing concepts, action research, abduction, systems change, and retrospective developmental evaluation; title: Utilization-focused developmental evaluation : engagement practices, diverse designs, and adaptive methods.