1. State of the Art and Practice of Developmental Evaluation:
Answers to Common and Recurring Questions, Michael Quinn Patton
2. Cultural Responsivenessthrough Developmental Evaluation:
Indigenous Innovations in Sport and Traditional Maori Recreation,
Nan Wehipeihana, Kate McKegg,Veronica Thompson, & Kataraina
Pipi
3. Using Developmental Evaluation to Support College Access and
Success: Challenge Scholars, Srik Gopal, Katelyn Mack, & Cris
Kutzli
4.Nine Guiding Principles to Help Youth Overcome Homelessness: A
Principles-Focused Developmental Evaluation, Nora F. Murphy
5. Fostering Learning through Developmental Evaluation with a
Nontraditional Arts Organization and a Traditional Community
Funder, Jamie Gamble, Shawn Van Sluys, & Lisa Watson
6. Scienceand How We Care for Needy Young Children: The Frontiers
of Innovation Initiative, Julie Asher, Nathaniel Foote, James
Radner, & Tassy Warren
7. Developmental Evaluation’s Role in Supporting Community-Led
Solutions for Maori and Pacific Young People’s Educational Success:
The ASB Community Trust Maori and Pacific Education Initiative,
Kate McKegg, Nan Wehipeihana, Moi Becroft, & Jennifer Gill
8. Developmental Evaluation in the McKnight Foundation’s
Collaborative Crop Research Program: A Journey of Discovery, Marah
Moore & Jane Maland Cady
9. An Example of Patch Evaluation: Vibrant Communities Canada, Mark
Cabaj, Eric Leviten-Reid, Dana Vocisano, & Mabel Jean Rawlins
10. Outcome Harvesting: ADevelopmental Evaluation Inquiry Framework
Supporting the Development of an International Social Change
Network, Ricardo Wilson-Grau, Paul Kosterink, & Goele Scheers
11. Adapted Developmental Evaluation with USAID’s People-to-People
Reconciliation Fund Program, Susan H. Allen, David Hunsicker,
Mathias Kjaer, Rebekah Krimmel, Gabrielle Plotkin, & Kelly
Skeith
12. Creating Safety to Explore:Strengthening Innovation in an
Australian Indigenous Primary Health Care Settingthrough
Developmental Evaluation, Samantha Togni, Deborah Askew, Lynne
Rogers, Nichola Potter, Sonya Egert, Noel Hayman, Alan Cass, & Alex
Brown
13. Leadership’s Role in Building the Education Sector’s Capacity
to Use Evaluative Thinking: The Example of the Ontario Ministry of
Education, Keiko Kuji-Shikatani, Mary Jean Gallagher, Richard
Franz, & Megan Börner
14. Developmental Evaluation in Synthesis: Practitioners’
Perspectives, Kate McKegg & Nan Wehipeihana
15. The Developmental Evaluation Mindset: Eight Guiding Principles,
Michael Quinn Patton
Michael Quinn Patton, PhD, is an independent evaluation
consultant with more than 40 years of experience. Based in
Minnesota, he is a former president of the American Evaluation
Association (AEA). His six evaluation books include Developmental
Evaluation, Qualitative Research and Evaluation Methods (now in its
fourth edition ), and Essentials of Utilization-Focused Evaluation.
He is a recipient of the Alva and Gunnar Myrdal Award for
outstanding contributions to evaluation use and practice and the
Paul F. Lazarsfeld Evaluation Theory Award, both from AEA.
Kate McKegg, MA, is an independent evaluation consultant with more
than 20 years of experience. She is Director of The Knowledge
Institute Ltd and a member of the Kinnect Group in Hamilton, New
Zealand. She is also the current President of the Aotearoa New
Zealand Evaluation Association and a former board member of the
Australasian Evaluation Society (AES). Ms. McKegg is coeditor of
Evaluating Policy and Practice: A New Zealand Reader. With Nan
Wehipeihana, Kataraina Pipi, and Veronica Thompson, she received
the Best Evaluation Policy and Systems Award from AES, for the He
Oranga Poutama Developmental Evaluation.
Nan Wehipeihana, PostGradDip, is an independent evaluation
consultant with more than 20 years of experience, based in
Wellington, New Zealand. She specializes in evaluation and research
with a focus on Maori, the Indigenous people of New Zealand. She
established Research Evaluation Consultancy in 1997 and is a member
of the Kinnect Group. Ms. Wehipeihana is a board member of the
Aotearoa New Zealand Evaluation Association and a former appointed
executive member of AES. Her tribal affiliations are to Ngati Porou
and Te Whanau-a-Apanui on the East Coast of New Zealand and Ngati
Tukorehe and Ngati Raukawa, north of Wellington, New Zealand.
"Central to this book is the notion that DE is principle-driven (a
most refreshing change away from ‘best practices’). DE is about
learning and adjusting innovations for systems change, providing a
basis for evaluations that embrace adaptation as conditions shift.
Whether you are an evaluation student, instructor, or practitioner,
the cases will help you learn your way into DE. Use them as part of
your ongoing apprenticeship, as DE is learned through practice. You
will appreciate the emphasis on the readiness conditions needed for
DE to flourish. For anyone committed to participatory inquiry and
action research, this book will become a trusted
companion."--Ricardo Ramirez, PhD, independent researcher and
evaluation consultant, Guelph, Ontario, Canada
"The contributors delve into the 'whats,' 'whys', and 'how-tos' of
this powerful, adaptive model of evaluation. Chapters highlight key
conceptual linkages to systems thinking and complexity theory and
show how these ideas can come to life with community stakeholders
and policymakers. The case studies are a treasure trove of powerful
stories, practical guidance, and teaching tools that bring DE to
life across populations, cultures, settings, and nations.
Developmental Evaluation Exemplars represents a significant
advancement in the theory, methods, and practice of evaluation and
systems change."--Rebecca Campbell, PhD, Department of Psychology,
Michigan State University
"The field has been waiting for a book like this one. A
well-balanced, diverse set of authors focus on good examples of DE
practice. The book shows how innovative projects and programs
require evaluation practices and approaches that honor complexity,
flexibility, and systems thinking. It describes with clarity how DE
actually happens in complex ecologies and settings across the
globe. This book is written for any serious student of evaluation
at the graduate or postgraduate level. I am very happy to add it to
my shelf of required and recommended materials for my classes in
education policy and evaluation."--Rodney Hopson, PhD, Department
of Educational Psychology, University of Illinois at
Urbana–Champaign
"This book demonstrates that DE is not just about applying tools
and methods; it's about how evaluators can think more creatively,
critically, strategically, and rigorously. It’s also about building
trusting, credible, ethical relationships. The exemplars will
challenge you to bring forth your best thinking and relating as an
evaluator."--Beverly A. Parsons, PhD, Executive Director, InSites,
Fort Collins, Colorado -An excellent resource for anyone who needs
to use this type of evaluation method.--Doody's Review Service,
2/29/2016
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