Description: Developmental EvaluationApplying Complexity Concepts to Enhance Innovation and Use Author(s): Michael Quinn Patton Format: Paperback Publisher: Guilford Publications, United States Imprint: Guilford Publications ISBN-13: 9781606238721, 978-1606238721 Synopsis 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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Book Title: Developmental Evaluation
Number of Pages: 375 Pages
Publication Name: Developmental Evaluation: Applying Complexity Concepts to Enhance Innovation and Use
Language: English
Publisher: Guilford Publications
Item Height: 254 mm
Publication Year: 2010
Type: Textbook
Item Weight: 688 g
Subject Area: Experimental Psychology
Author: Hallie Preskill, Ann Doucette, Barbara Zimmerman, John Bare, Michael Quinn Patton
Item Width: 178 mm
Format: Paperback
