Evaluators need to know about complexity because the programs they evaluate often exhibit complex behaviors. Without understanding complexity, evaluators cannot construct models, develop methodologies, and interpret data in ways that accurately describe what programs are doing, and why. If they get it wrong, so too will evaluation users and stakeholders....
Author: Hur Hassnain
New vision for evaluation
Panel discussion in the annual conference of the Czech Evaluation Society "Approach to People and Data": Quo vadis evaluations? New vision for evaluation in turbulent and online times – cooperation for transformational change (follow-up to Prague Declaration, 2019).
Evaluating Outside the Box: Evaluation’s Transformational Potential
The call for transformation is a response to the dire global emergency; it is a call for radical innovation at multiple levels if humanity is to survive into the next Century. How can evaluation, a profession in the business of assessment and advising, inform and hasten transformation? As a field...