Extending Evaluation Capacity Building Theory to Improvement Science Networks

2021 ◽  
pp. 109821402096318
Author(s):  
Kristen Rohanna
Keyword(s):  
Public Education ◽  
Capacity Building ◽  
First Year ◽  
Improvement Science ◽  
Evaluation Capacity Building ◽  
Evaluation Capacity ◽  
Frontline Workers ◽  
Capacity Evaluation ◽  
Multidisciplinary Model

Evaluation practices are continuing to evolve, particularly in those areas related to formative, participatory, and improvement approaches. Improvement science is one of the evaluative practices. Its strength is that it seeks to embrace stakeholders’ and frontline workers’ knowledge and experience, who are often tasked with leading improvement activities in their organizations. However, very little guidance exists on how to develop crucial improvement capacity. Evaluation capacity building literature has the potential to fill this gap. This multiple methods case study follows a networked improvement community’s first year in a public education setting as network leaders sought to build capacity by incorporating Preskill and Boyle’s multidisciplinary model as its guiding framework. The purpose of this study was to better understand how to build improvement science capacity, along with what facilitates implementation and beneficial learnings. This article ends by reconceptualizing and extending Preskill and Boyle’s model to improvement science networks.

scholarly journals Understanding of evaluation capacity building in practice: a case study of a national medical education organization

2017 ◽  
Vol Volume 8 ◽  
pp. 761-767 ◽  
Author(s):  
Aimee Sarti ◽  
Stephanie Sutherland ◽  
Angele Landriault ◽  
Kirk DesRosier ◽  
Susan Brien ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Medical Education ◽  
Capacity Building ◽  
Evaluation Capacity Building ◽  
Evaluation Capacity ◽  
National Medical ◽  
Education Organization

scholarly journals Mobilising Q methodology within a realist evaluation: Lessons from an empirical study

Evaluation ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 25 (4) ◽  
pp. 430-448
Author(s):  
Kevin Harris ◽  
Steven Henderson ◽  
Brian Wink
Keyword(s):  
Social Science ◽  
Empirical Study ◽  
Capacity Building ◽  
Q Methodology ◽  
Realist Evaluation ◽  
Programme Theory ◽  
Evaluation Capacity Building ◽  
Evaluation Capacity ◽  
Recent Evaluation

Realist evaluation and Q methodology are established approaches in social science. However, integration of Q methodology within a realist evaluation is scarce. This article attempts to illustrate (through a recent evaluation) how Q methodology can support a realist evaluation. The article attempts to capture the philosophical compatibility of the two approaches creating an argument for Q’s integration within realist evaluation. Through the case study selected (a realist evaluation of an evaluation capacity building framework), the iterative methodological process is presented, capturing a snapshot of the findings from the evaluation. This illuminates how Q met the philosophical aims of a realist evaluation to make sense of how, why and under what circumstances a programme or intervention works. It is argued that Q methodology is entirely suitable for capturing the three key stages in a realist evaluation of developing, testing and refining programme theory. It is intended that this article can contribute to inspire other realist evaluators and methodologists to make use of Q as a tool in their evaluation.

scholarly journals A research and evaluation capacity building model in Western Australia

2016 ◽  
pp. daw088 ◽  
Author(s):  
Roanna Lobo ◽  
Gemma Crawford ◽  
Jonathan Hallett ◽  
Sue Laing ◽  
Donna B Mak ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Capacity Building ◽  
Western Australia ◽  
Evaluation Capacity Building ◽  
Evaluation Capacity ◽  
Building Model

Evaluation Capacity-building: A Tale of Value-adding

2005 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 41-47 ◽  
Author(s):  
Diana Beere
Keyword(s):  
Program Evaluation ◽  
Capacity Building ◽  
Organisational Culture ◽  
Added Value ◽  
Evaluation Capacity Building ◽  
Evaluation Capacity ◽  
Police Service ◽  
Internal Evaluators ◽  
Integrate Evaluation ◽  
Evaluation Work

Evaluation capacity-building entails not only developing the expertise needed to undertake robust and useful evaluations; it also involves creating and sustaining a market for that expertise by promoting an organisational culture in which evaluation is a routine part of ‘the way we do things around here’. A challenge for evaluators is to contribute to evaluation capacity-building while also fulfilling their key responsibilities to undertake evaluations. A key strategy is to focus on both discerning value and adding value for clients/commissioners of evaluations. This paper takes as examples two related internal evaluation projects conducted for the Queensland Police Service that have added value for the client and, in doing so, have helped to promote and sustain an evaluation culture within the organisation. It describes key elements of these evaluations that contributed to evaluation capacity-building. The paper highlights the key role that evaluators themselves, especially internal evaluators, can take in evaluation capacity-building, and proposes that internal evaluators can, and should, integrate evaluation capacity-building into their routine program evaluation work.

scholarly journals Using Evaluability Assessment and Evaluation Capacity-building to Strengthen Community-based Prevention Initiatives

2012 ◽  
Vol 23 (2A) ◽  
pp. 33-48 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tabia Henry Akintobi ◽  
Ellen M. Yancey ◽  
Pamela Daniels ◽  
Robert M. Mayberry ◽  
DeBran Jacobs ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Capacity Building ◽  
Community Based ◽  
Evaluation Capacity Building ◽  
Evaluability Assessment ◽  
Evaluation Capacity ◽  
Assessment And Evaluation
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