Questions Before Methods
Like other research initiatives, each program evaluation should begin with a question, or series of questions that the evaluation seeks to answer. (See my previous
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Developmental Evaluation: Evaluating Programs in the Real World’s Complex and Unpredictable Environment
Programs are seldom implemented under pristine laboratory conditions. Instead, they occur in the real world, in real time. They unfold in complex environments, with ever-changing
Context is Critical
“Context matters,” Debra Rog, past President of the American Evaluation Association reported in her address to the 2012 meeting of ASA, and recently wrote in
Fail Forward: What We Can Learn from Program “Failure”
Vilfredo Pareto, an Italian economist, sociologist, and philosopher, observed: “Give me a fruitful error any time, full of seeds, bursting with its own corrections. You
Questions Before Methods
Like other research initiatives, each program evaluation should begin with a question, or series of questions that the evaluation seeks to answer. (See my previous
Developmental Evaluation: Evaluating Programs in the Real World’s Complex and Unpredictable Environment
Programs are seldom implemented under pristine laboratory conditions. Instead, they occur in the real world, in real time. They unfold in complex environments, with ever-changing
Context is Critical
“Context matters,” Debra Rog, past President of the American Evaluation Association reported in her address to the 2012 meeting of ASA, and recently wrote in
Fail Forward: What We Can Learn from Program “Failure”
Vilfredo Pareto, an Italian economist, sociologist, and philosopher, observed: “Give me a fruitful error any time, full of seeds, bursting with its own corrections. You
Questions Before Methods
Like other research initiatives, each program evaluation should begin with a question, or series of questions that the evaluation seeks to answer. (See my previous
Developmental Evaluation: Evaluating Programs in the Real World’s Complex and Unpredictable Environment
Programs are seldom implemented under pristine laboratory conditions. Instead, they occur in the real world, in real time. They unfold in complex environments, with ever-changing
Context is Critical
“Context matters,” Debra Rog, past President of the American Evaluation Association reported in her address to the 2012 meeting of ASA, and recently wrote in
Fail Forward: What We Can Learn from Program “Failure”
Vilfredo Pareto, an Italian economist, sociologist, and philosopher, observed: “Give me a fruitful error any time, full of seeds, bursting with its own corrections. You