Chapter One: Developmental Evaluation Defined & Positioned Key Take Home Messages: Developmental Evaluation is not a magic bullet – it is one type of evaluation that is suited to particular situations (i.e., complex, innovative) the role of the developmental evaluator is to ”to infuse team discussions with evaluative questions, thinking and data, and to facilitate systematic data-based reflection […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Things that stood out to me in the preface of Developmental Evaluation: Talking about his book “Getting to Maybe,” Patton says, “the editor seemed, like many people, to have an allergic reaction to the very word evaluation.” (p.ix) Similarly, “You, savvy reader that you are, mark yourself as different by even holding the book in your hands. […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
So, I’ve joined a Developmental Evaluation (DE) community of practice (COP). Run by BC Mental Health & Addictions Services, this COP is focused on reading Michael Quinn Patton’s Developmental Evaluation: Applying Complexity Concepts to Enhance Innovation (as well as discussing how DE applies to our own work, discussing how we are using DE, etc.). So […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
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