I put together a slide deck on the advantages of adding constructs from evolutionary biology and ecology to traditional evaluation. Adding those constructs is worth the trouble when the focus is on:
- populations of a program types, and
- rates of change over time
Specific topics covered are:
- Policy as ecosystem change
- Evolution of program forms
- Sustainability in terms of ecosystems as attractors
- Use of ecosystem analysis to interpret outcome evaluation
- Using population trends to interpret data on program outcome
Go here for the slides. UD_EBT_Evaluation_Meeting
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