EV153 Improvement Science in E Contributor(s): Ev (Author) |
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ISBN: 1119378664 ISBN-13: 9781119378662 Publisher: John Wiley & Sons OUR PRICE: $27.55 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: April 2017 |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Political Science | Human Rights |
Series: J-B Pe Single Issue (Program) Evaluation |
Physical Information: 0.3" H x 5.8" W x 8.9" (0.35 lbs) 112 pages |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Publisher Description: While improvement science has experienced a surge of interest over the past 30 years, applications of it are rare in the evaluation literature. This issue promotes the cross-fertilization of ideas, techniques, and tools between evaluation and improvement science. There are at least four areas where this cross-fertilization is particularly relevant: learning from error, examining variation, appreciating context, and focusing on systems change. This volume considers:
Cutting across all of these applications is a shared grounding in systems thinking, a determination to capture and better understand variation and contextual complexity, as well as a sustained commitment to generative learning about projects and programs--all issues of great concern to evaluators. The issue offers producers and users of evaluations the potential benefits of a closer engagement with improvement science. This is the 153rd issue in the New Directions for Evaluation series from Jossey-Bass. It is an official publication ofthe American Evaluation Association. |