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Developmental Evaluation: Applying Complexity Concepts to Enhance Innovation and Use (edition 2010)

by Michael Quinn Patton PhD

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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. See also Developmental Evaluation Exemplars, edited by Michael Quinn Patton, Kate McKegg, and Nan Wehipeihana, which presents 12 in-depth case studies.… (more)
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Title:Developmental Evaluation: Applying Complexity Concepts to Enhance Innovation and Use
Authors:Michael Quinn Patton PhD
Info:The Guilford Press (2010), Edition: 1, Paperback, 375 pages
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A wonderful addition to the evaluation field. I'm so happy to have the benefit of Patton's vast experience and eclectic approach to evaluation, developmental evaluation in particular, in one place. Has helped me sort out a number of issues about DE, how it is different from utilization-focused evaluation, how Outcome Mapping fits into the DE continuum, etc. It will probably be hard for a novice evaluator to understand and get through--lots of story-telling, which I find important and useful, but leads to a bit of a meandering style. The indexing is not well done, which I know I'll find frustrating when I'm trying to locate some nugget. ( )
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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. See also Developmental Evaluation Exemplars, edited by Michael Quinn Patton, Kate McKegg, and Nan Wehipeihana, which presents 12 in-depth case studies.

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