Success in Evaluation: Focusing on the Positives
Steffen Bohni Nielsen · Rudi Turksema · Peter van der Knaap
Jun 2015 · Comparative Policy Evaluation Book 1 · Transaction Publishers
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Success in Evaluation takes a fundamentally different approach to the mainstream supply side discussion of evaluation quality, utilization, and learning. The contributors believe that a systematic focus on success will lead to increased awareness of evaluation and its findings, a more positive attitude, and a greater chance of actual evaluation use. This book offers many different lessons on how to improve evaluation design, research processes, and reporting. It is a realistic look at performance management, the evidence movement, and the demand barriers that so often block the role evaluators can play in organizational learning and decision-making. International case studies and lessons are included that both explain success-oriented methods and share insightful lessons from the real world. Together, they present a convincing case that evaluation for success allows for increased constructive interaction amongst both stakeholders and evaluators and, as a result, learning processes and outcomes will improve.
About the author
Steffen Bohni Nielsen is deputy director and part of the executive management team at the Danish National Board of Social Services.
Rudi Turksema works as an audit manager/performance audit expert at the Netherlands Court of Audit.
Peter van der Knaap is managing director of SWOV, the National Institute for Road Safety Research in The Netherlands.
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