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- Abma, Tineke, et al.
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Enriching evaluation practice through care ethics
- 2020
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Ingår i: Evaluation. - : Sage Publications. - 1356-3890 .- 1461-7153. ; 26:2, s. 131-146
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Recently, several authors have called for a critical assessment of the normative dimensions of evaluation practice. This article responds to this call by demonstrating how evaluation practice can be enriched through deliberate engagement with care ethics. Care ethics has a relational and practice view of morality and places caring relationships and responsibilities at the forefront of our being in the world. We will demonstrate how care ethics, in particular Joan Tronto’s moral-political theory of democratic caring, can help evaluators to reshape our way of working by placing caring and relationality at the centre of our evaluative work. Care ethics as a normative orientation for evaluation stretches beyond professional codes of conduct, and rule- or principled-based behaviour. It is part of everything we do or not do, how we interact with others, and what kinds of relationships we forge in our practice. This is illustrated with two examples: a democratic evaluation of a programme for refugee children in Sweden; and a responsive evaluation of a programme for neighbours of people with an intellectual disability in The Netherlands. Both examples show that a caring ethos offers a promising pathway to address the larger political, public issues of our times through the interrogation of un-caring practices. We conclude a caring ethos can help evaluators to strengthen a caring society that builds on people’s deeply felt need to care, to relate, and to connect within and across communities.
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- Bjurulf, Staffan, et al.
(författare)
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A triangulation approach to impact evaluation
- 2013
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Ingår i: Evaluation. - : SAGE Publications. - 1356-3890 .- 1461-7153. ; 19:1, s. 56-73
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This article presents a viable method to overcome the challenge of producing reliable cause-effect findings in impact evaluation. The Measuring Cluster Effects through Triangulation method (MCET) involves methodological triangulation. Three designs - shadow controls, generic controls, and process tracing - are combined to shed light on causality. When these three approaches are triangulated, cause-effect findings will be more reliable. The MCET combination is a feasible alternative when randomized controlled trials and matched controls are impossible or impracticable. It is also an alternative to using a single non-experimental design, particularly in situations where expenditure is great and the causality issue is pressing. In this article, the MCET approach is illustrated by information drawn from a set of evaluations performed on the activities of the Compare Foundation, a cluster organization in Sweden in the Information and Communication Technology sector. Regionally based in Karlstad, County Varmland, and founded in 2000, the Compare cluster organization has adapted the MCET to its own activities.
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- Carlsson, Lars
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Non-hierarchical evaluation of policy
- 2000
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Ingår i: Evaluation. - : SAGE Publications. - 1356-3890 .- 1461-7153. ; 6:2, s. 201-216
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- An important task for policy evaluation is to develop methods that are based on the fact that political power is fragmented and that every policy area is complex. This article demonstrates, using an empirical example, how different strands of the policymaking process are related to different logics of evaluation. Also discussed is how these differences may result in quite opposite conclusions about the possible failure or success of single programmes. However, it is concluded that policy research does not have to abandon the idea of rationality and adopt a more postmodern or hermeneutic line of analysis. Policy evaluation is still, it is argued, a matter of finding relevant units of analysis, and in contemporary society these units are networks rather than political-administrative entities. Thus, in order to be able to scrutinize and understand such processes of policy creation, policy evaluation must adopt a non-hierarchical attitude and this requires a bottom-up methodology.
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- Castro, Maria Pia, et al.
(författare)
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Professionalization and evaluation : A European analysis in the digital era
- 2016
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Ingår i: Evaluation. - : Sage Publications. - 1356-3890 .- 1461-7153. ; 22:4, s. 489-507
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- It is expected that the number of evaluators will continue to grow in the near future. However, the heterogeneity of different national contexts makes the consolidation of a consistent jurisdiction' for the professional evaluator rather problematic. This article contributes to the debate on the professionalization of evaluators by looking at practices attributed, competences and skills required by employers, and the main topics addressed by the community of evaluators. The authors draw on various sources - ISCO08 (International Standard Classification of Occupation); ESCO (European Skills, Competences, Qualifications and Occupations); job offers posted on the EES (European Evaluation Society) website; EES LinkedIn group - to argue that the practice of evaluation has achieved a supranational dimension, with potential consequences both on evaluators' educational profile and on the ways in which evaluations are commissioned and conducted.
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- Denvall, Verner, et al.
(författare)
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Knocking on heaven's door: The evaluation community goes to church
- 2013
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Ingår i: Evaluation. - : SAGE Publications. - 1356-3890 .- 1461-7153. ; 19:4, s. 431-441
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Ideas and concepts about evaluation travel around the globe. Studies of how evaluation models are disseminated, diffused and implemented are important. In this article, we examine an organization with a history of traditions and legitimacy and a successful audit of its own and how it responds to modern concepts of administration where evaluation plays an important role. Based on an analytical framework from organizational theory, we show how an evaluation model has been either adopted, rejected or transformed depending on the local context and consider why central policies have had limited success in its implementation. This article should contribute to a better understanding of the transformation that evaluation undergoes in the journey between and within organizations.
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- Fjellström, Mona
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A Learner-Focused Evaluation Strategy : Developing Medical Education through a Deliberative Dialogue with Stakeholders
- 2008
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Ingår i: Evaluation. - London : Sage. - 1356-3890 .- 1461-7153. ; 14:1, s. 91-106
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This article describes and discusses a case of deliberative responsive stakeholder evaluation that was employed as a strategy to support the development of an undergraduate medical programme at a Swedish university. It focuses on received information and reflection about the process of evaluation as a dialogue for learning. By highlighting the complexity of educational work and the expectations on the medical profession, the dialogue supported a holistic and qualification-focused change process. The dialogue contributed to the creation of a qualified and nuanced development process and illuminated an evaluation process that is more associated with learning than quality enhancement. The article begins by presenting the case studied and the theories that underpin the article. It then describes the results of the study, before finally placing the results in the context of higher education development in Sweden and raising issues relating to the present method and objectives of quality assessment in higher education.
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- Gomersall, T, et al.
(författare)
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Network-based approaches for evaluating ambient assisted living (AAL) technologies
- 2017
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Ingår i: EVALUATION. - : SAGE Publications. - 1356-3890 .- 1461-7153. ; 23:2, s. 192-208
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Tidskriftsartikel (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- Ambient assisted living technologies could support people experiencing physical or cognitive challenges, to maintain social identities and complex activities of daily living. Although there has been substantial investment in developing ambient assisted living innovation, less effort has been devoted to understanding how to evaluate the impact of ambient assisted living on physical and mental health. Taking a theory-based evaluation approach, we suggest firstly that ambient assisted living technologies rely on networks of people and organizations to function, and secondly, analysing the changing structure of networks can bridge the gap between socio-technological change and individual-level capabilities. We present conceptual arguments for taking a network perspective in ambient assisted living evaluations, illustrated with examples from our own group’s work on technology use among older people with cognitive impairments. We then discuss the different types of network-based evaluation approaches available, their theoretical assumptions, and the sort of research questions they could address.
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- Hanberger, Anders, 1953-
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Evaluation of and for democracy
- 2006
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Ingår i: Evaluation. - London : SAGE Publications. - 1356-3890 .- 1461-7153. ; 12:1, s. 17-37
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- There are many options for elaborating democratic evaluations. This article discusses evaluation of and for democracy, and in particular three broad democratic evaluation orientations: elitist democratic evaluation (EDE), participatory democratic evaluation (PDE) and discursive democratic evaluation (DDE). The archetypes differ regarding, for example, evaluation focus, inclusion of stakeholders, dialogue and the role of the evaluator. The three orientations promote certain democratic values and are linked to the elitist, participatory or discursive notions of democracy respectively. It is argued that there is a need to become more conscious of how evaluations not labelled democratic can influence democracy and what responsibility democratic evaluators have. If commissioners and evaluators become more aware of the different democratic orientations evaluations may have, they will be better able to decide which evaluation to commission and undertake.
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- Hanberger, Anders, 1953-
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Multicultural awareness in evaluation : dilemmas and challenges
- 2010
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Ingår i: Evaluation. - : SAGE. - 1356-3890 .- 1461-7153. ; 16:2, s. 177-191
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- The purpose of this article is to discuss what is meant by multicultural competence in evaluation and how policies and programmes aiming at multicultural awareness and ‘validity’ can be evaluated. The article discusses three main ways of understanding multiculturalism and how multicultural competence in evaluation can be defined. It also develops evaluation criteria that can be used for assessing the multicultural implications of policies and programmes. The article suggests that a multiculturally competent evaluator should be well informed about minority and majority norms and also familiar with different models of multiculturalism. The multiculturally aware evaluator employs an appreciative approach to traditional cultures that is consistent with human rights and international law. A multiculturally relevant evaluation should stimulate a discussion that facilitates inter-cultural understanding and multicultural awareness. Developing multicultural awareness in evaluation can be seen as a way of developing democratic evaluation.
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- Hanberger, Anders, 1953-
(författare)
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Power in and of evaluation - A framework of analysis
- 2022
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Ingår i: Evaluation. - : Sage Publications. - 1356-3890 .- 1461-7153. ; 28:3, s. 265-283
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This article develops a framework for enhancing understanding and exploring both how power manifests in the evaluation process, and the power of evaluation in relation to public policy and democratic governance. Power is conceived as a multifaceted and dynamic phenomenon that manifests, permeates, and affects evaluation in many ways. The article demonstrates how the framework can be applied to an evaluation of a Swedish teacher-training program. The tentative analysis shows how the commissioner’s power-over the evaluators becomes evident when it cannot induce the evaluators to do what it wants them to do and manifests itself as constitutive power when, for example, helping shape the notion of what valid knowledge is. The power of the evaluation manifests itself as supporting key policy and governance functions.
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