Developmental Evaluation 1st Edition by Michael Quinn Patton ISBN 978-1606238721 1606238728

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ISBN 10:  1606238728

ISBN 13: 978-1606238721

Author:  Michael Quinn Patton

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.

Table of contents: 

1. Developmental Evaluation Defined and Positioned

2. Developmental Evaluation as a Distinct Purpose and Niche

3. Thinking Outside Evaluation’s Boxes

4. Distinguishing Simple, Complicated, and Complex

5. Systems Thinking and Complexity Concepts for Developmental Evaluation

6. A Dialectic with Thesis and Antithesis and Developmental Evaluation as the Synthesis

7. The Adaptive Cycle and Developmental Evaluation

8. Developmental Evaluation Inquiry Frameworks

9. Reflective Practice, Sensitizing Concepts, Action Research, Abduction, Systems Change, and Retrospective Developmental Evaluation

10. Engagement Practices, Diverse Designs, and Adaptive Methods

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