AEA 2014 Poster: Fitting Developmental Evaluation Concepts into Government Evaluations: Our Journey from Objective Outsider to "Critical Friend" #2014Conference #TAACCCTs #GovernmentEvaluation #developmentalevaluations
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The strengths (and limitations) of both instruments to help an evaluator provide evaluative thinking to support innovation when there is no tried and tested solution for a problem. #developmentalevaluation #OutcomeHarvesting #OutcomeMapping
OM and OH for DE PRINT, AEA 18 Oct 2013, pptx.pdf
Developmental evaluation (DE) is an early 21st century development, so it is altogether fitting that its state of development be reviewed at the AEA annual conference
State of Developmental Eval AEA 2013.pdf
Knight Foundation on a developmental evaluation of its Community Information Challenge project – a 5-year, $24m innovative initiative designed to foster local information news and civic engagement through digital media. In this session, we described how the evaluation’s questions, design and data collection methods, and reporting strategies have evolved over time – how the evaluation has been responsive to emerging client interests and information needs, in ways that reflect a strategic learning and developmental evaluation approach
Living into Developmental Evaluation - Reflections on Changing Practice - Preskill.pdf
Materials from the session "Developmental Evaluation as an Equity Tool to Shift the Funder-Grantee Power Dynamic" presented by Anjie Rosga and Theresa Esparrago Lieu of Informing Change (Berkeley, CA) at AEA 2018
ABSTRACT: Developmental Evaluation (DE) requires the evaluator to assume a relatively new and unique role when compared to more traditional evaluation approaches
Evaluating Social Innovation, a new report developed by FSG and the Center for Evaluation Innovation, challenges grantmakers to explore how common evaluation approaches and practices constrain innovation, and examines a new approach to evaluating social innovation known as "developmental evaluation." Developmental evaluation can inform and support innovation and adaptation by asking evaluative questions, applying evaluation logic, and gathering and reporting data and findings in accessible and timely ways. The report suggests when to use developmental evaluation, describes conditions for successfully implementing this approach, and offers insights from funders and evaluators who have tested developmental evaluation
Evaluating Social Innovation.pdf
Abstract: Evaluators are increasingly being asked to examine complex and dynamic social and environmental change initiatives that call for equally dynamic approaches to evaluation. Developmental evaluation offers new ways to think about and approach evaluation to support and accommodate emergent, innovative and transformative processes that often define social change initiatives. Yet, many evaluators are unfamiliar with how to apply developmental evaluation approaches in real-world settings. This session will illustrate in practical terms how developmental evaluation was applied to the Convergence Partnership, an innovative group of national funders working to improve the places where people live so that everyone can be healthy. Evaluators attending this session will learn how developmental evaluation was applied to planning, data collection, analysis, reporting, and use of findings
We say of Developmental Evaluation, the only certainty is uncertainty...Through a Developmental Evaluation lens we explore the process of moving from a conceptual vision to on-the-ground practice of evaluation in emergent and dynamic contexts
Grappling with Uncertainty in Innovative and Complex Settings Weaving Quality.ppt
Title: Using Developmental Evaluation to Address Uncertainty from a Systems Perspective Abstract 3: This presentation will discuss how three developmental evaluations addressed issues of uncertainty