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May 27, 2020June 29, 2020 jamorell What do research and theory in complexity and systems tell us about evaluation practice and evaluation theory?

Constructing a Deep Complexity and Systems Science Foundation for the Field of Evaluation

Constructing a Deep Complexity and Systems Science Foundation for the Field of Evaluation Jonny Morell, PhD Meg Hargreaves PhD This section of the blog Evaluation Uncertainty, Surprises in Programs and their Evaluations is an effort to continue and expand prior work setting evaluation theory and evaluation practice within a deep understanding of complexity and systems … Continue reading Constructing a Deep Complexity and Systems Science Foundation for the Field of Evaluation

May 15, 2020 jamorell Complex Systems, Programs, and Evaluation, Program Theory and Program Logic

A Complexity-based Meta-theory of Action for Transformation to a Green Energy Future

This chapter draws from complexity science to present a metatheory of transformation that can be applied to discrete theories of change that are constructed to guide model building, methodology, and data interpretation for the evaluation of individual change efforts.

March 8, 2020March 8, 2020 jamorell Contributions of Evolutionary Biology and Ecology

Using the Biotic Hierarchy as a Framework for Moving Policy Evaluation Away from a Program Evaluation-like Activity

February 24, 2020February 26, 2020 jamorell Contributions of Evolutionary Biology and Ecology

Slide deck and video – When and how can ideas from Evolutionary Biology and Ecology be useful in program and policy evaluation? February 2020

Slide deck and video – When and how can ideas from Evolutionary Biology and Ecology be useful in program and Policy evaluation? February 2020

February 4, 2020 jamorell Evaluation as a Discipline and a Profession

AEA’s Potential to Serve the Public Good

February 2, 2020 jamorell Contributions of Evolutionary Biology and Ecology

Evolutionary Biology and Ecology as a Valuable Framework for Some Evaluation

January 4, 2020 jamorell Evaluation as a Discipline and a Profession

Protected: Is AEA pursuing the public good?

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November 6, 2019November 6, 2019 jamorell Contributions of Evolutionary Biology and Ecology, Practical Ways to use Complexity to do Evaluation

What does evaluation gain from thinking in alien terms? An argument for taking complexity and evolutionary biology seriously

What does evaluation gain from thinking in alien terms? An argument for taking complexity and evolutionary biology seriously -- constructs and methodology

November 4, 2019 jamorell Logic Models and Program Theory

Deriving Value from Models: Appreciating Partial Truth, Simplification, and Multiple Uses

I’m giving a talk at AEA 2019 in Minneapolis. The graphic summarizes the content. For the slides go here.

November 3, 2019November 3, 2019 jamorell Practical Ways to use Complexity to do Evaluation, Program Theory and Program Logic

AEA Professional development workshop on using complexity in evaluation

Material for AEA Professional development workshop on using complexity in evaluation

Eat dessert first. Life is uncertain.
Good advice. True observation.

Any yet, we must soldier on, trying to predict what will happen and to explain why things work out as they do. My professional life has grappled with prediction and explanation through the lens of program evaluation. I have come to appreciate how much, and how little, evaluation can tell us. Sometimes it is “much”. Sometime is “little”. Sometimes it is “much” and “little” at the same time. This blog expresses my engagement with what evaluation can do, what it cannot do, what it should do, and what it should not do. About the graphic.