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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:the conceptual similarities and distinctions between improvement science and evaluation;the intellectual foundations, methods, and tools that collectively comprise improvement science; andcase chapters that offer an inspiring review of state-of-the-art improvement science applications.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.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Improvement Science in Evaluation: Methods and Uses (New Directions for Evaluation #153). To get started finding Improvement Science in Evaluation: Methods and Uses (New Directions for Evaluation #153), you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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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:the conceptual similarities and distinctions between improvement science and evaluation;the intellectual foundations, methods, and tools that collectively comprise improvement science; andcase chapters that offer an inspiring review of state-of-the-art improvement science applications.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.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Improvement Science in Evaluation: Methods and Uses (New Directions for Evaluation #153). To get started finding Improvement Science in Evaluation: Methods and Uses (New Directions for Evaluation #153), you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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