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Learning From and Through Evaluation: An Examination of Practice

New Directions for Evaluation, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT In this article, we provide an analysis across the foregoing practice‐based case exemplars to understand antecedent conditions and influences, learning‐oriented evaluation strategies, estimates of strategy success or potential success, and factors that either enable or hinder the extent to which learning from and through evaluation occurs. The
J. Bradley Cousins, Jill Chouinard
wiley   +1 more source

Embracing complexity by reducing rigidity: guiding principles for the intersection of implementation science and qualitative research. [PDF]

Implement Sci
Sheard L, Reisinger H, Beidas R, Wilson P.   +3 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Learning as Compost: Reorienting Evaluation in an Era of Authoritarian Drift

New Directions for Evaluation, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT We synthesize insights from seven cases to interrogate a central assumption of the learning function of evaluation: Learning can be strengthened through better design, integration, or alignment with accountability systems. Taking the issue's conceptual framework seriously, the essay reflects what the cases reveal about the nature of learning ...
Tiffany L. S. Tovey, Jill Anne Chouinard
wiley   +1 more source

Epistemological Foundation for the Use of the Linguistic Measures of the Referential Process. [PDF]

J Psycholinguist Res
Negri A, Barazzetti A.
europepmc   +1 more source

Epistemology engines [PDF]

Nature, 2000
openaire   +2 more sources

From Insight to Theory: Advancing Sentiment Evaluation for Diaspora Development Projects

New Directions for Evaluation, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article develops the concept of “sentiment evaluation,” drawing on a mid‐term evaluation by the Danish Refugee Council (DRC) of its program supporting Somali diaspora activism in Somaliland. Conducted in 2014, the evaluation revealed that “sentiment,” the emotional, identity‐based attachment linking diaspora actors to their homeland ...
Valeria Saggiomo, Twesigye Jackson Kaguri   +1 more
wiley   +1 more source

"Scientific or democratic?" Bridging the implementation gap of citizen science through the study of social-symbolic objects. [PDF]

Front Public Health
Broekhuizen J, De Jong J.
europepmc   +1 more source

Evaluating for Learning: Latin American Strategies and Experiences From the Evalparticipativa Community

New Directions for Evaluation, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article documents EvalParticipativa's 6‐year effort to democratize evaluation across Latin America through participatory approaches rooted in the region's traditions of Popular Education, Participatory Action Research, and Sistematización de Experiencias.
Pablo Rodríguez Bilella, Esteban Tapella   +1 more
wiley   +1 more source

Critical Thinking and Epistemic Sophistication in Science Education. [PDF]

J Intell
Tamayo Alzate OE.
europepmc   +1 more source

The Learning Function of Evaluation: A Conceptual Framing

New Directions for Evaluation, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT In this article, we set out a conceptual overview of what we call learning in the evaluation ecosystem to depict the interplay between external influences, organizational and community factors, and learning levers (e.g. capacity building, systems thinking).
Jill Anne Chouinard, J. Bradley Cousins
wiley   +1 more source