What is Essential in Developmental Evaluation? On Integrity, Fidelity, Adultery, Abstinence, Impotence, Long-Term Commitment, Integrity, and Sensitivity in Implementing Evaluation Models

Datos Bibliográficos

ID12470942
AutoresMichael Quinn Patton (0000-0002-4706-2941, Utilization-Focused Evaluation, St. Paul, MN, USA, autor de correspondencia)
Año2016
Volumen37
Número2
Páginas250-265
Fecha de publicación2016-03-22
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaAmerican Journal of Evaluation (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 1098-2140 • E-ISSN: 1557-0878
EditorialSAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1177/1098214015626295
OpenAlexW2308290965
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas29
Referencias citadas23

Fidelity concerns the extent to which a specific evaluation sufficiently incorporates the core characteristics of the overall approach to justify labeling that evaluation by its designated name. Fidelity has traditionally meant implementing a model in exactly the same way each time following the prescribed steps and procedures. The essential principles of developmental evaluation (DE), in contrast, provide high-inference sensitizing guidance that must be interpreted and applied contextually. In lieu of operationalizing DE fidelity criteria, I suggest addressing the degree of manifest sensitivity to essential principles. Principles as sensitizing concepts replace operational rules. This means that sensitivity to essential DE principles should be explicitly and contextually manifest in both processes and outcomes, in both design and use of findings. Eight essential principles of DE are identified and explained. Finally, 10 threats to evaluation model fidelity and/or degree of manifest sensitivity are identified with ways to mitigate those threats

Business · Epistemology · Fidelity · Management science · Operationalization · Risk analysis (engineering · Computer Science · Delphi Technique in Research · Engineering · Evaluation and Performance Assessment · Health Policy Implementation Science · Psychology