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Striving for Significance: Development and Validation of the Desire for Significance Scale

open access: yesEuropean Journal of Social Psychology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The need for personal significance (i.e., the desire for mattering, meriting respect and ‘being someone’) is a psychogenic need that guides a variety of human behaviours studied across multiple domains of social psychology. Despite its relevance, a validated measure of stable individual differences in the motivation to satisfy the need for ...
Erica Molinario   +14 more
wiley   +1 more source

Learning From and Through Evaluation: An Examination of Practice

open access: yesNew 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

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

open access: yesNew 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

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

open access: yesNew 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   +1 more
wiley   +1 more source

The Learning Function of Evaluation: A Conceptual Framing

open access: yesNew 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

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