Workshop – Complex Behavior in Models, Methodology, and Metrics

April 23, 2024April 23, 2024 jamorell Workshop – Complex Behavior in Models, Methodology, and Metrics

Early Childhood Development Action Network Master Class in Systems Thinking: Complex System Behaviors that Can Help Us Plan and Evaluate

The Early Childhood Development Network is offering a set of master lasses in systems thinking. This presentation is my contribution.

November 12, 2023 jamorell Workshop – Complex Behavior in Models, Methodology, and Metrics

A Different Way to Understand How Programs Work and What They Accomplish – EES 2023 Professional Development

These are the slides for a professional development workshop at EES 2023 about what evaluators can learn from Complexity Science.

November 6, 2023 jamorell Workshop – Complex Behavior in Models, Methodology, and Metrics

Professional Development Study Case: Individual and Joint Evaluation of Loosely Coordinated Community Development Efforts

This is a case I developed for use in two professional development workshops I offer, one in modeling, and the other on the relevance of Complexity Science to Evaluation.

October 4, 2023 jamorell Practical Ways to use Complexity to do Evaluation, Uncategorized, Workshop – Complex Behavior in Models, Methodology, and Metrics

Applying Complexity Science to Evaluation. AEA 2023 Professional Development Session

Here are the slides for the workshop. I have been doing all this research and writing because I'm convinced that we would do better work if we knew when and how the behaviors of complex systems should applied to the models we develop, the methodologies we construct, how we interpret data, and what we say … Continue reading Applying Complexity Science to Evaluation. AEA 2023 Professional Development Session

April 29, 2023 jamorell Practical Ways to use Complexity to do Evaluation, What do research and theory in complexity and systems tell us about evaluation practice and evaluation theory?, Workshop – Complex Behavior in Models, Methodology, and Metrics

Workshop: Drawing from Complexity Science to do Evaluation.

Slides for my AES Workshop: Application of Complexity Science to Evaluation are here. Topics I’ll cover are: Stability and instability in complex systems Talking to stakeholders about complex behavior Thinking in terms of the behavior of complex systems Pattern, predictability and how change happens as general themes. Methodologies we need to evaluate with respect to … Continue reading Workshop: Drawing from Complexity Science to do Evaluation.

May 20, 2022 jamorell Complex Systems, Programs, and Evaluation, Practical Ways to use Complexity to do Evaluation, Workshop – Complex Behavior in Models, Methodology, and Metrics

Complexity in Evaluation: My Latest Thinking on What Matters

Over the years I have written, lectured, and done workshops about how (and when) Evaluation should draw from Complexity Science. Over that time my beliefs have evolved with respect to what aspects of Complexity Science matter, and how evaluation methodologies can be applied to understand program activity and the consequences of program action. This post … Continue reading Complexity in Evaluation: My Latest Thinking on What Matters

October 15, 2019October 16, 2019 jamorell Workshop – Complex Behavior in Models, Methodology, and Metrics

Complex behavior can be evaluated using comfortable, familiar methodologies – Part 4 of a 10-part series on how complexity can produce better insight on what programs do, and why

This is part 4 of 10 blog posts I’m writing to convey the information that I present in various workshops and lectures that I deliver about complexity. I’m an evaluator so I think in terms of evaluation, but I’m convinced that what I’m saying is equally applicable for planning.

October 12, 2019October 12, 2019 jamorell Workshop – Complex Behavior in Models, Methodology, and Metrics

Ignoring complexity can make sense – Part 3 of a 10-part series on how complexity can produce better insight on what programs do, and why

Ignoring complexity in program design and evaluation can make sense

August 19, 2019August 19, 2019 jamorell Workshop – Complex Behavior in Models, Methodology, and Metrics

Evaluating for complexity when programs are not designed that way Part 10 of a 10-part series on how complexity can produce better insight on what programs do, and why

This is part 10 of 10 blog posts I’m writing to convey the information that I present in various workshops and lectures that I deliver about complexity. I’m an evaluator so I think in terms of evaluation, but I’m convinced that what I’m saying is equally applicable for planning.

August 8, 2019August 11, 2019 jamorell Workshop – Complex Behavior in Models, Methodology, and Metrics

A few very successful programs, or many, connected, somewhat successful programs? Part 9 of a 10-part series on how complexity can produce better insight on what programs do, and why

This is part 9 of 10 blog posts I’m writing to convey the information that I present in various workshops and lectures that I deliver about complexity. I’m an evaluator so I think in terms of evaluation, but I’m convinced that what I’m saying is equally applicable for planning.