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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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. The authors call on philanthropy to re-envision the role, purpose, and processes of evaluation so that social innovations have a better chance of achieving their goals #OrganizationalLearningandEvalCapacityBuilding #SystemsinEvaluation #Collaborative,ParticipatoryandEmpowermentEval #developmentalevaluation #Non-ProfitsandFoundationsEvaluation #EvaluationUse
Evaluating Social Innovation.pdf
This is the PowerPoint deck from our session on the use of HSD and DE in the evaluation of an arts-based community development initiative in Minneapolis, MN #CreativeCityMaking #HumanSystemsDynamics #developmentalevaluation
AEA CCM presentation.pptx
Is evaluation used in the public sector?
AEA 2013 Oct 18 Panel Session 442 The role of evaluators in infusing evaluative thinking .pdf
How do foundations create meaningful and realistic evaluations that capture progress toward strategic goals?
Raimi+Associates_Cal Wellness AEA final_2016.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
Internal evaluators in the public sector infusing evaluative thinking through connecting the dots through team relationships and using program theory as a tool for developmental evaluation to utilize evaluation
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
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. DE applies systems thinking and complexity concepts to evaluation of social innovations. Evaluation in complex dynamic systems requires nimble adaptation, timely feedback, and special attention to phenomena like emergence, nonlinearity, and dynamical changes
State of Developmental Eval AEA 2013.pdf
The slides for this session describe insights gained from research into the challenges and opportunities of Developmental Evaluation. The full set of findings can be found in "Evaluating Social Innovation", a white paper available at www.fsg.org or www.evaluationinnovation.org. Presentation Abstract: Developmental evaluation offers social innovators an approach to collecting strategically focused information in real time, on questions that matter, in contexts where programs or initiatives are not well-tested, and where the outcomes cannot always be pre-planned or predicted. As the need for relevant, credible, and useful information continues to increase, it is more imperative than ever, that evaluations a) contribute to understanding the complexities of an innovation, b) are adaptive and responsive to new and evolving questions and learnings, and c) that they reflect the changes, challenges, and opportunities that emerge as the innovation unfolds. In our paper, we describe our research results on the uses, conditions, tensions, and benefits of engaging in developmental evaluation, and challenge the philanthropic and nonprofit sectors to explore how common evaluation approaches and practices constrain innovation, and how we must re-envision the role, purpose, and processes of evaluation so that it fits social innovation
AEA Paper Session 471.pdf