Evaluation
What's the Use
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12347541 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Jade Maloney (Sydney., corresponding author) |
| Year | 2017 |
| Volume | 17 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 25-38 |
| Publication date | 2017-12-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Evaluation Journal of Australasia (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1035-719X • E-ISSN: 2515-9372 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1177/1035719x1701700404 |
| OpenAlex | W2784633391 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 4 |
| References cited | 20 |
Concerns about non-use of evaluations have plagued the profession since it emerged in the 1960s to guide government decision-making about social policies and programs. While there is a substantial body of empirical and theoretical literature about evaluation use, this literature does not identify the factors that are considered most important to facilitating evaluation use or the pathways to evaluation use. Additionally, much of the literature is from North America and Europe and there has been no large-scale study of evaluation use in Australia. This study aimed to identify Australasian Evaluation Society (AES) members’ perceptions of the levels of use of evaluation and the factors associated with use, as well as how evaluators overcome barriers to use. It used a questionnaire of AES members and in-depth interviews with evaluators. The AES members who responded perceive both demand-side factors, particularly leadership commitment and individual receptiveness to evaluation, and supply-side factors, particularly involvement of stakeholders in identifying the evaluation purpose and effective communication of findings, as important to evaluation use. Evaluators employ a range of utilisation-focused strategies and have some success in negotiating the barriers they encounter to use. Evaluators’ experience reflects that the factors that are most important to use and the pathways to use differ by context, suggesting that existing theoretical models of evaluation use could be strengthened through recognition of context-based pathways
Context (archaeology · Empirical research · Geography · Government (linguistics · Knowledge management · Negotiation · Perception · Political science · Public relations · Scale (ratio · Applied Psychology · Computer Science · Educational Assessment and Improvement · Evaluation and Performance Assessment · Health Policy Implementation Science · Psychology
Current Empirical Research on Evaluation Utilization
Reconceptualizing evaluation use
Agendas, alternatives, and public policies
Evaluation Utilization as Argumentation
The Mechanisms and Outcomes of Evaluation Influence
The Strength of the Methodological Warrants for the Findings of Research on Program Evaluation Use
Evaluation Use
Exploring the Necessary Conditions for Evaluation Use in Program Change
Research on Evaluation Use
Haven't We Been This Way Before? Evaluation and the Impediments to Policy Learning
Toward More “Evidence‐Informed” Policy Making
| Unique citing works | 4 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,57 |
| Citation span | 2019 - 2024 (6) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 4 |