This evaluation approach involves partnering relationships between social innovators and evaluators in which the evaluator’s role focuses on helping innovators embed evaluative thinking into their decision-making processes as part of their ongoing design and implementation initiatives. DE can apply to any complex change effort anywhere in the world. Through lecture, discussion, and small-group practice exercises, this workshop will position DE as an important option for evaluation in contrast to formative and summative evaluations as well as other approaches to evaluation.
This eStudy will occur in four 90-minute sessions and will include preparation materials sent before, between, and after the sessions.
Day 1 - Emergent methods in practice: The challenges of designing & budgeting developmental evaluation studies
Day 2 - Co-evolution and interdependence: The challenges of the relationship between the developmental evaluator and social innovators (primary intended evaluation users)
Day 3 - Making “real time” feedback meaningful and valid: The challenges of evaluation in a fast-paced, real-time world
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