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OCF Week: Kim Leonard on Studio to School – A developmental evaluation in action

2 Comments / Uncategorized / April 28, 2016 April 23, 2016

I am Kim Leonard, Senior Evaluation Officer at The Oregon Community Foundation. Today I want to share lessons learned from a developmental evaluation we’re undertaking for our five-year arts education grantmaking initiative – Studio to School. The nature of this Initiative is developmental and rooted in the arts. Creativity, adaptation, and risk are supported. The …

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Tosca Bruno-van Vijfeijken and Gabrielle Watson on Is Developmental Evaluation Right for Large Scale Organizational Change Processes?

Hi, we’re Tosca Bruno-van Vijfeijken (Director of the Syracuse University Transnational NGO Initiative) and Gabrielle Watson (independent evaluator). We engaged a group of practitioners at the 2015 AEA conference to talk about organizational change in International Non-Governmental Organizations (INGOs), and explore a hunch that Developmental Evaluation could help organizations manage change. Several large INGOs are …

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Eval Use Week: Nora Murphy and Keith Miller on Evaluation use in a developmental evaluation context

2 Comments / Evaluation Use / August 24, 2015 August 22, 2015

We are Nora Murphy and Keith Miller with TerraLuna Collaborative, an evaluation cooperative in the Twin Cities, Minnesota. We feel fortunate to be the evaluation partners on several large developmental evaluations. One project we are working on seeks to support the inner wellbeing journey of seasoned social entrepreneurs. On a recent conference call, a project …

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Developmental Eval Week: Ricardo Wilson-Grau on Outcome Harvesting as a Developmental Evaluation Inquiry Framework

Leave a Comment / Uncategorized / March 6, 2015 March 6, 2015

I am Ricardo Wilson-Grau, an evaluator based in Rio de Janeiro but working internationally. Increasingly, I am called upon to serve as a developmental evaluator, I have found the concept of “inquiry framework” (Chapter 8 in Developmental Evaluation[1]) to be invaluable for co-creating developmental evaluation questions and agreeing how they will be answered. As Michael …

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Developmental Eval Week: Charmagne Campbell-Patton on using Reflective Practice for Developmental Evaluation

1 Comment / Uncategorized / March 5, 2015 February 28, 2015

I’m Charmagne Campbell-Patton, Director of Organizational Learning and Evaluation for Utilization-Focused Evaluation based in Minnesota, and Evaluation & Assessment Specialist for World Savvy, a national education nonprofit that works with educators, schools, and districts to integrate global competence teaching and learning into K-12 classrooms. World Savvy has staff in Minneapolis, San Francisco, and New York City. We …

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Developmental Eval Week: Nora F. Murphy on Qualitative Data in Developmental Evaluation

Leave a Comment / Qualitative Methods / March 4, 2015 February 28, 2015

Hi, I’m Nora F. Murphy, a developmental evaluator and co-founder of TerraLuna Collaborative. Qualitative Methods have been a critical component of every developmental evaluation I have been a part of. Over the years I’ve learned a few tricks about making qualitative methods work in a developmental evaluation context. Hot Tip: Apply systems thinking. When using developmental evaluation …

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Developmental Eval Week: Nan Wehipeihana on Roles and Responsibilities in Developmental Evaluation

2 Comments / Uncategorized / March 3, 2015 February 28, 2015

I’m Nan Wehipeihana, a member of the Kinnect Group in New Zealand and co-editor of a forthcoming book on Developmental Evaluation Exemplars. I want to share what we have learned about roles and responsibilities in Developmental Evaluation (DE) by reviewing the reflective practice experiences of DE practitioners. Hot Tip: Understand the implications of DE being …

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Developmental Eval Week: Kate McKegg on Readiness for Developmental Evaluation

3 Comments / Uncategorized / March 2, 2015 February 28, 2015

I’m Kate McKegg, Director of The Knowledge Institute Ltd, member of the Kinnect Group, and co-editor of a forthcoming book on Developmental Evaluation Exemplars. I want to share what we have learned about readiness for developmental evaluation (DE) by reviewing the experiences of and lessons from DE practitioners. DE isn’t appropriate for every situation. So, …

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DE Week: Nora F. Murphy on What’s Different in Developmental Evaluation?

1 Comment / Uncategorized / May 1, 2014 April 26, 2014

Hi, I’m Nora F. Murphy, co-founder of TerraLuna Collaborative, an evaluation cooperative in Minneapolis, MN with some thoughts about practicing Developmental Evaluation. Like many, I eagerly read Michael Quinn Patton’s Developmental Evaluation: Applying Complexity Concepts to Enhance Innovation and Use from cover to cover. The approach excited me because naturally taps into my chosen profession …

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