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1.	Abma, Tineke, et al. (författare) Enriching evaluation practice through care ethics 2020 Ingår i: Evaluation. - : Sage Publications. - 1356-3890 .- 1461-7153. ; 26:2, s. 131-146 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.
2.	Bjurulf, Staffan, et al. (författare) A triangulation approach to impact evaluation 2013 Ingår i: Evaluation. - : SAGE Publications. - 1356-3890 .- 1461-7153. ; 19:1, s. 56-73 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.
3.	Carlsson, Lars (författare) Non-hierarchical evaluation of policy 2000 Ingår i: Evaluation. - : SAGE Publications. - 1356-3890 .- 1461-7153. ; 6:2, s. 201-216 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.
4.	Castro, Maria Pia, et al. (författare) Professionalization and evaluation : A European analysis in the digital era 2016 Ingår i: Evaluation. - : Sage Publications. - 1356-3890 .- 1461-7153. ; 22:4, s. 489-507 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.
5.	Denvall, Verner, et al. (författare) Knocking on heaven's door: The evaluation community goes to church 2013 Ingår i: Evaluation. - : SAGE Publications. - 1356-3890 .- 1461-7153. ; 19:4, s. 431-441 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.
6.	Fjellström, Mona (författare) A Learner-Focused Evaluation Strategy : Developing Medical Education through a Deliberative Dialogue with Stakeholders 2008 Ingår i: Evaluation. - London : Sage. - 1356-3890 .- 1461-7153. ; 14:1, s. 91-106 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.
7.	Gomersall, T, et al. (författare) Network-based approaches for evaluating ambient assisted living (AAL) technologies 2017 Ingår i: EVALUATION. - : SAGE Publications. - 1356-3890 .- 1461-7153. ; 23:2, s. 192-208 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.
8.	Hanberger, Anders, 1953- (författare) Evaluation of and for democracy 2006 Ingår i: Evaluation. - London : SAGE Publications. - 1356-3890 .- 1461-7153. ; 12:1, s. 17-37 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.
9.	Hanberger, Anders, 1953- (författare) Multicultural awareness in evaluation : dilemmas and challenges 2010 Ingår i: Evaluation. - : SAGE. - 1356-3890 .- 1461-7153. ; 16:2, s. 177-191 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.
10.	Hanberger, Anders, 1953- (författare) Power in and of evaluation - A framework of analysis 2022 Ingår i: Evaluation. - : Sage Publications. - 1356-3890 .- 1461-7153. ; 28:3, s. 265-283 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.
11.	Hanberger, Anders, 1953- (författare) Rethinking democratic evaluation for a polarised and mediatised society 2018 Ingår i: Evaluation. - : Sage Publications. - 1356-3890 .- 1461-7153. ; 24:4, s. 382-399 Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract This article discusses how democratic evaluation can manage threats to democracy, democratic renewal, and the mediatisation of public policy and governance. It considers the readiness of five democratic evaluation orientations to deal with current threats and discusses how to develop them. It demonstrates that democratic evaluation is poorly prepared to manage current threats to democracy or the mediatisation of public policy. Progressive evaluation is the only approach offering some new keys to addressing certain current threats and challenges. The other orientations have some capacity to manage threats to democracy and support democratic renewal, but need further development. The article suggests that democratic evaluation could be a constructive tool for maintaining and developing democracy in an increasingly polarised and mediatised society if evaluators gain knowledge of threats to democracy, democratic transition,and democratic renewal and, informed by mediatisation and democracy research, develop the necessary awareness and competence to deal with these challenges.
12.	Hanberger, Anders, 1953-, et al. (författare) Strategies to evaluate a university–industry knowledge-exchange programme 2004 Ingår i: Evaluation. - : SAGE. - 1356-3890 .- 1461-7153. ; 10:4, s. 475-492 Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract This article discusses different approaches to evaluating a knowledgeexchange programme designed to foster closer university–industry interaction. It shows how the same policy or programme can be understood and thus evaluated in a number of ways. First, a particular knowledgeexchange programme evaluated by the authors is described. The article then outlines four different methodologies that can be used to evaluate the programme, and assesses it from the perspective of each, outlining the respective strengths and weaknesses of the approaches. The first two evaluation approaches, programme theory evaluation and outcome analysis, tend to be applied in ways that privilege the policy/programme makers’ worldview, and in this sense may be considered ‘management-oriented’ approaches; the second two approaches, policy discourse analysis and qualitative network analysis, are often applied in ways that incorporate a critical stance to this worldview, and may in this sense be considered ‘non-management-oriented’ approaches. The validity of a policy or programme evaluation can be enhanced by adopting a multi-methodological design incorporating both types of approach. Stakeholders are more likely to learn from a programme/policy evaluation and to be receptive to its conclusions if their differing perspectives and success criteria are incorporated into the evaluation.
13.	Hanberger, Anders, 1953- (författare) The real functions of evaluation and response systems 2011 Ingår i: Evaluation. - : Sage Publications. - 1356-3890 .- 1461-7153. ; 17:4, s. 327-349 Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract This article is intended to contribute to the understanding of evaluation use in the context of policy making and governance. It does this, first, by developing a framework that sets out the prerequisites of six possible functions of an evaluation ‘management response system’; and second, by analysing three aid organizations’ management response systems in relation to this framework. The prerequisites of the different functions are theoretically derived. The analysis finds that response systems have contributed to organizational legitimacy and achieved many of their intended functions, but only to an extent. Two factors – the system design, and top managers’ support for the system – were found to be critical for how these systems worked. The article also discusses whether a management response system meets the needs of public organizations and stakeholders operating in multi-actor policy making.
14.	Hanberger, Anders, 1953- (författare) What is the policy problem? : Methodological challenges in policy evaluation 2001 Ingår i: Evaluation. - London : SAGE Publications. - 1356-3890 .- 1461-7153. ; 7:1, s. 45-62 Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract Because when a policy process starts, nobody knows what line of action will eventually be implemented, policy evaluation has to continuously examine the content of different policy components. In order to understand and explain public policy, different stakeholders’ perceptions of the policy problem need to be scrutinized. A policy evaluation should also facilitate the interpretation of policy in a broader context. What values and order does the policy or programme promote? Using an open evaluation framework and a mix of criteria can facilitate a broader interpretation of the policy process. In this article, problems undertaking policy evaluation are discussed in relation to a Swedish medical informatics programme.
15.	Hellström, Tomas (författare) Homing in on excellence: Dimensions of appraisal in Center of Excellence program evaluations 2011 Ingår i: Evaluation. - : SAGE Publications. - 1356-3890 .- 1461-7153. ; 17:2, s. 117-131 Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract Excellence has become a watchword for goal setting and assessment in science and technology policy. While the concept has been around for many years in its commonsense meaning, it is now explicitly used for science governance; however, so far little work has been done to detail, operationalize and systematize the dimensions of value present in academic evaluators’ use of the concept. This article is based on a close reading of a mid-term evaluation of several centers of excellence in Sweden, the goal of which is to achieve a detailed understanding of the evaluative components of the concept. By applying template analysis to evaluation documents, seven main components, largely referring to the organizational/institutional aspects of excellence were identified. These are analyzed and used to provide insights for evaluation scholars and practitioners into the tensions and possibilities present in the excellence concept.
16.	Hertting, Nils, 1970-, et al. (författare) Purposes and criteria in network governance evaluation : How far does standard evaluation vocabulary takes us? 2012 Ingår i: Evaluation. - : SAGE Publications. - 1356-3890 .- 1461-7153. ; 18:1, s. 25-44 Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract Evaluation and network governance are both among the top-10 trendy concepts in public policy. But how are they related? In the present article, we ask how public sector interventions guided by a network governance doctrine are to be evaluated. If evaluation means systematic judgment of organization, content, administration, outputs and effects in public policy, then evaluators need concepts and analytical tools to assess these features and communicate their analyses. In the literature, interest in network modes of governance often goes together with a call for a renewed vocabulary for evaluation and policy analysis. In the article, we do not take this to be a fact. Instead we turn it into a question: How relevant and productive are established concepts and tools of evaluation theory for evaluating network governance? More specifically, we address the issues of purposes and merit criteria in evaluation of interventions fashioned according to the network governance doctrine. Though it takes some elaboration, our overall conclusion is that at least some standard evaluation concepts and approaches are still productive in delineating, analysing and prescribing how network governance can be evaluated. There are crucial accountability issues to raise, the goal-achievement criterion is not irrelevant and the meaning of stakeholder evaluation is elucidated when confronted with the ideas of the network governance doctrine.
17.	Karlsson, Ove (författare) CRITICAL DIALOGUE : ITS VALUE AND MEANING 2001 Ingår i: Evaluation. - : SAGE Publications. - 1356-3890 .- 1461-7153. ; 7:2, s. 211-227 Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract Today dialogue is a frequent used idea in the discourse of evaluation. Dialogue stands for an ambi-tion to involve different stakeholder in open and power-free exchange of opinions and ideas about what is evaluated. The aim with this article is to give an example on how to manage dialogue in practice. An evaluation case study is used to illustrate how the evaluators manage a dialogue in different phases of the evaluation process. To handle the sometimes-difficult situation with many different views on the subject, the evaluator developed different, sometimes new and innovative methods to make the exchange of ideas possible. The article shows that dialogue in evaluation need to be adjustable to different situations and need among the participants.
18.	Karlsson, Per-Åke, et al. (författare) Evaluation Workshops for Capacity Building in Welfare Work : Some Swedish Examples 2008 Ingår i: Evaluation. - : Sage Publications Ltd.. - 1356-3890 .- 1461-7153. ; 14:4, s. 477-491 Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract Ever increasing demands are being made on welfare organizations to display efficiency. Evaluation workshops constitute a form of learning for the purposes of building up competence to conduct evaluations within welfare organizations, with the support of research and development units. In workshops of this kind, welfare work professionals meet in order to conduct evaluations together with researchers/professional evaluators.This article presents experiences from 10 such evaluation workshops conducted in western Sweden.The workshops were perceived very positively by the participants. While the evaluations are being conducted, the participants also develop a more general competence in this field.The evaluations conducted at the workshops are primarily internal, but with external support, with all the limitations this involves in relation to the possibilities for critical scrutiny. Evaluation workshops have a beneficial effect on the learning of evaluation methods by directly combining learning and conducting evaluation. The workshops may also serve to build capacity in the organizations for evaluative work.
19.	Khakee, Abdul (författare) The emerging gap between evaluation research and practice 2003 Ingår i: Evaluation. - : Sage Publications. - 1356-3890 .- 1461-7153. ; 9:3, s. 340-352 Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract While evaluation practice is still disposed towards rational quantitative methods, evaluation research has increasingly utilized qualitative dialogical methods. In this article, the increasing gap between practice and research is examined by analysing how evaluation research has evolved from within three perspectives: a policy programme perspective, a welfare economics perspective and a planning theory perspective. The article also discusses the implications of the emerging gap between evaluation research and practice.
20.	Larsson, Magnus, 1983-, et al. (författare) Evaluation in management by objectives : a critical analysis of Sweden’s national environmental quality objectives system 2016 Ingår i: Evaluation. - : SAGE Publications. - 1356-3890 .- 1461-7153. ; 22:2, s. 190-208 Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract This article investigates what can be achieved by one particular management by objectives system – i.e. the Swedish National Environmental Quality Objectives system and its evaluation function. A critical programme theory analysis is first developed to reconstruct the programme theory of the National Environmental Quality Objectives system. Next, the robustness of the programme theory is analysed in terms of internal consistency, theoretical support and empirical support. The results indicate that, while some assumptions underlying the National Environmental Quality Objectives system are valid, the National Environmental Quality Objectives’ programme theory has low validity in several respects. The evaluative knowledge the system produces is only partly relevant to or useable by local actors and industry. While the state of the environment is observed and measured in the monitoring and evaluation reports, the direct effects of environmental policy and work are not evaluated, which is a main weakness of the National Environmental Quality Objectives system. It is unlikely that the current evaluation function can effectively support achievement of the National Environmental Quality Objectives environmental objectives. The article suggests that evaluations in support of network governance are more likely to support National Environmental Quality Objectives achievement and sustainable development.
21.	Larsson, Magnus, 1983- (författare) Using environmental evaluation systems and their contribution to sustainable development 2021 Ingår i: Evaluation. - : Sage Publications. - 1356-3890 .- 1461-7153. ; 27:4, s. 453-472 Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract Drawing on previous research into evaluation use and sustainable development, this article investigates to what extent and how a national evaluation system can advance sustainable development. The data comprise interviews with key actors, observations at seminars where evaluations were discussed, and analysis of evaluation reports. The actors were divided into three categories (i.e. central, proximal, and peripheral) to indicate their closeness to the national policy cycle. The results indicate that the evaluations were used mainly by central and proximal actors, primarily because the evaluation knowledge met most of their knowledge needs, and very little used by peripheral actors, such as environmental and business organizations. The evaluation system’s main influence was to consolidate environmental work and provide guidance on the environmental dimension of sustainable development at the national level. The evaluation system also served as a recurring reminder for stakeholders about the national objectives, their achievement, and everyone’s responsibility for their implementation.
22.	Lindgren, Lena, 1954 (författare) If Robert Merton said it, it must be true: A bibliometric analysis in the field of performance measures. 2011 Ingår i: Evaluation. - : SAGE Publications. - 1356-3890 .- 1461-7153. ; 17:1, s. 7-19 Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract This article is inspired by the current attention paid to bibliometric methods to evaluate research relevance and impact. The logic behind the trend is examined by comparing highly and less cited publications in the same knowledge field (i.e. performance measurement) to see if and how they are different, especially in terms of research design and methods used. Findings indicate that various research designs and methods are equally represented among highly and less highly cited works, and that the only feature that does seem to play a role is if the cited author is an internationally renowned scholar. Findings also indicate an indiscri-minate use of citation where the quality and relevance of secondary data is taken for granted. A vague hint of something, found in a single case study or inferred from a purely theoretical work, may thus over time and with more citations added become universal fact or even ‘evidence’.
23.	Mickwitz, Per, et al. (författare) A theory-based approach to evaluations intended to inform transitions toward sustainability 2021 Ingår i: Evaluation. - : SAGE Publications. - 1356-3890 .- 1461-7153. ; 27:3, s. 281-306 Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract There is an urgent need for radical transformations of unsustainable socio-technical systems, such as food, mobility, and housing. These transformations will not take place without new policies and research. In order to achieve these transitions, learning must be a central feature based on thorough evaluations of the actions taken. Evaluations have been conducted and studied for decades, but traditional evaluation approaches have largely been developed to produce knowledge for incremental changes, not for radical transformations. This article develops a framework for interdisciplinary evaluations targeting transformative changes toward a more sustainable society. The framework combines evaluation theory and practice with transition theory, sociology of science, policy analyses, and environmental psychology. While the primary purpose of the framework is to help design evaluations that would better enhance learning for transitions, it can also be used for systematic meta-evaluations of past evaluations.
24.	Miljand, Matilda, et al. (författare) Using systematic reviews to inform environmental policy-making 2022 Ingår i: Evaluation. - : Sage Publications. - 1356-3890 .- 1461-7153. ; 28:2, s. 210-230 Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract There is a demand for scientific knowledge to make informed decisions in environmental policy. This study examines expectations of knowledge use, and how knowledge stemming from systematic reviews (SR) is being used through an analytical framework that distinguishes between instrumental, conceptual and legitimising evaluation use, as well as between process and product use. Empirically, we investigate knowledge generated from six SRs conducted through the Mistra Council for Evidence-based Environmental Management from the perspectives of those carrying out the SR and their targeted stakeholders. Our study reveals ways in which SRs are used and some characteristics that improve and some that hamper their usefulness. While the systematic method and the comprehensiveness of the SRs contribute positively to the usefulness, we found that the SRs produced were simultaneously too focused (lacking multiple perspectives), and too general (providing evidence on the effects of an intervention only at the general level) thereby restricting their usefulness. The time and resources it takes to produce an SR can also affect its usefulness compared to a traditional review.
25.	Nordesjö, Kettil, 1981- (författare) Made in Sweden : The translation of a European evaluation approach 2019 Ingår i: Evaluation. - : Sage Publications. - 1356-3890 .- 1461-7153. ; 25:2, s. 189-206 Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract To understand how evaluation approaches change between contexts, they need to be studied in relation to their social, cultural, organizational and political contexts. The aim of the article is to describe and analyse how the European Union evaluation approach, ongoing evaluation, was translated in Swedish public administration. A case study shows how institutional entrepreneurs promote their evaluation norms of participatory evaluation and attach evaluation to a less dominant governance logic in the Swedish evaluation field. This raises questions about the role of the evaluator, evaluation terminology, and the unclear and weak borders of the evaluation field where evaluation approaches can be launched and translated with relative ease.
26.	Nordesjö, Kettil, 1981- (författare) The constitutive effects of social investment evaluation 2021 Ingår i: Evaluation. - : Sage Publications. - 1356-3890 .- 1461-7153. ; 27:2, s. 210-228 Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract Evaluation has different uses and impacts. This article aims to describe and analyse the constitutive effects ? how evaluation forms and shapes different domains in an evaluation context ? of evaluation related to an evidence-based policy and practice, by investigating how the evaluation of social investment fund initiatives in three Swedish municipalities is organized and implemented. Through interviews and evaluation reports, the findings show how this way of evaluating may contribute to constitutive effects by defining worldviews, content, timeframes and evaluation roles. The article discusses how social investment fund evaluation contributes to a linear knowledge transfer model, promotes a relation between costs and evidence and concentrates the power over evaluation at the top of organizations.
27.	Segerholm, Christina, et al. (författare) Governance through Institutionalized Evaluation: Recentralization and Influences at Local Levels in Higher Education in Sweden 2007 Ingår i: Evaluation. - : SAGE Publications. - 1356-3890 .- 1461-7153. ; 13:1, s. 48-67 Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract Public sectors in Europe and elsewhere are the subject of regular, recurrent and systematic evaluations. Evaluations have become institutionalized. This article examines the influence of institutionalized evaluation in higher education in Sweden. In this decentralized education system several kinds of effects of evaluation are detected locally, i.e. at whole-university and at department levels. Through an evaluation process characterized by self-evaluation, external reviews and public reports produced by the Swedish National Agency for Higher Education, all universities are examined. Governance operates by making universities visible, and thereby promoting comparison and competition, control and self-control. Centrally defined criteria are implemented in the process, via direct contact between the National Agency and university departments, leading to the recentralization of power. Strategies to deal with these evaluations at departmental level are developed and unintended influences, like learning resistance strategies, are highlighted.
28.	Segerholm, Christina (författare) National Evaluations as Governing Instruments : How Do They Govern? 2001 Ingår i: Evaluation. - : SAGE Publications. - 1356-3890 .- 1461-7153. ; 7:4, s. 427-438 Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract The National Agency for Higher Education in Sweden carried out an evaluation, during 1995–1996, of all higher education programmes in care and nursing. The aim was to see if the programmes reached standards appropriate for higher education. Several care and nursing schools and programmes were found to be below the necessary standards, i.e. the criteria set by evaluators engaged in the national evaluation. According to those responsible for the programmes, the evaluation and its criteria were used at the local level to set out plans for development, even though the evaluation was criticized. Therefore in this article it is argued that national evaluations can work as national governing instruments, to support national policy. Two different theoretical frameworks are used to explain how actors at the local level are ‘governed’. Through this, it is believed that a more comprehensive understanding can be gained of how evaluation is related to governance.
29.	Suárez-Herrera, José Carlos, et al. (författare) Critical connections between participatory evaluation and organizational change dynamics 2009 Ingår i: Evaluation. - 1356-3890 .- 1461-7153. ; 15:3, s. 321-342 Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract The current debate around the emergence of participatory approaches in evaluation practice suggests that participatory evaluation may be considered an organizational learning praxis, one which facilitates the development of a holistic process of intentional change. Through critical reflection on how participatory evaluation has been conceptualized, this article offers an overview of some of the contextual challenges encountered when using participatory evaluation to enable the creation of learning environments. Given the pluralistic nature of modern organizations and some contextual constraints, evaluators appear to have largely developed a more instrumental type of learning, which may, paradoxically, result in a significant source of resistance to intentional change. This article proposes a process of capacity building for evaluative research (CBER). This process offers a collaborative way of overcoming unforeseen resistance to intentional change by overcoming the challenges found in the relationship between participatory evaluation and organizational learning. The article concludes by suggesting some epistemological and organizational issues that evaluators should take into account when enabling the implementation of a process of CBER in pluralistic organizations.
30.	Vedung, Evert, 1938- (författare) Four Waves of Evaluation Diffusion 2010 Ingår i: Evaluation. - : SAGE Publications. - 1356-3890 .- 1461-7153. ; 16:3, s. 263-277 Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract This article investigates the dissemination of evaluation as it appears from a Swedish and to a lesser extent an Atlantic vantage point 1960-2010. Four waves have deposited sediments, which form present-day evaluative activities. The 1) scientific wave entailed that academics should test, through two-group experimentation, appropriate means to reach externally set, admittedly subjective, goals. Public decision-makers were then supposed to roll out the most effective means. Faith in scientific evaluation eroded in the early 1970s. It has since been argued that evaluation should be participatory and non-experimental, with information being elicited from users, operators, managers and other stakeholders through discussions. In this way, the 2) dialogue-oriented wave entered the scene. Then the 3) neo-liberal wave from around 1980 pushed for market orientation. Deregulation, privatization, contracting-out, efficiency and customer influence became key phrases. Evaluation as accountability, value for money and customer satisfaction was recommended. Under the slogan ‘What matters is what works’ the 4) evidence-based wave implies a renaissance for scientific experimentation.
31.	Vedung, Evert, 1938- (författare) Recension av The Handbook of Environmental Policy Evaluation by Ann Crabbé och Pieter Leroy, London and Sterling, VA.: Earthscan, 2008 2009 Ingår i: Evaluation. - : SAGE Publications. - 1356-3890 .- 1461-7153. ; 15:4, s. 483-486 Recension (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)

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