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Developmental Evaluation: Applying Complexity Concepts to Enhance Innovation and Use

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Developmental evaluation (DE) offers a formidable technique to monitoring and supporting social innovations by working in partnership with program decision makers. On this book, eminent authority Michael Quinn Patton shows the way to conduct evaluations inside a DE framework. Patton draws on insights about complex dynamic systems, uncertainty, nonlinearity, and emergence. He illustrates how DE can be utilized for a spread 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 very important guidance for making evaluations helpful, practical, and credible in toughen 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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