Michael Quinn Patton
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 83689 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Michael Quinn Patton |
| PRENOMES | Michael Quinn |
| SOBRENOME | Patton |
| ASSINATURA | PATTON M Q |
| AFILIAÇÕES | Union Institute & University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-4706-2941 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 76 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 483 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 76 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1974 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 9 |
Principles for just and effective systemic risk governance
Non-Technical Summary We are in a polycrisis – the entanglement of crises across multiple, interconnected global systems such as climate, health, and finance – that interact to produce harms significantly greater than the sum of their parts. We propose that, to mitigate and adapt to this polycrisis, strong systemic risk governance is required, and that just and effective governance requires principles. Principles help us to identify common values…
Seeing the Elephant in the room
Using a duo ethnographic methodological frame, this article chronicles a professional relationship that transpired years ago, one that created a negative impact on one person and was inconsequential for the other. Happenstance brought the pair together with the passage of time, and they were able to address the power dynamics that had occurred in that first encounter years ago. Now, as both professionals had evolved in their understanding of huma…
Deepening Our Understanding of Resilience
Resilience is the capacity to experience a significant shock and adapt as needed to survive and move forward. The current age is one of constant system shocks economically, environmentally, and politically. Resilience becomes essential for navigating these and other risks. Individuals, organizations, communities, and ecosystems manifest different degrees and types of resilience requiring appropriately matched evaluation responses. In considering …
A Philanthropic Theory of Systems Transformation for Advancing Equity in the Polycrisis
The term “polycrisis” calls attention to overlapping, mutually reinforcing, and potentially disastrous trends and crises that are interconnected, like climate change, increasing global inequities, widespread disinformation, pandemic dangers, the ravages of war, and pollution of land, air, and water. Vulnerable and marginalized populations are most directly affected by the intensifying problems that are manifested in the polycrisis. This article, …
A Foundation’s Theory of Philanthropy
Editor’s Note: This article, first published in print and online in 2015, has been republished by The Foundation Review with minor updates. This article argues that philanthropic endeavors should be undergirded by a theory of philanthropy. Articulating a theory of philanthropy is a way for a foundation to make explicit what is often only implicit, thereby enabling internal and external actors to pose and resolve significant questions, understand …
To the editor
TFR 15.3 Full Issue
FIGURE 2 Elements of the EEFIt feels like there's no end to this...the different themes that you can explore and the growth that can happen.I can't overstate how foundational the territory is that we've gone through together...it's so fundamental to how we think about our practice around learning.And personally, I've picked up a lot of ways of working... how we come together as a group and talk and bring our full humanity to discussions
Theory of a Philanthropic Alliance
Different kinds of action entities need different theoretical frameworks. A theory of change hypothesizes how an intervention is expected to achieve desired impacts in the world. A theory of philanthropy articulates a foundation’s role in supporting specific kinds of theories of change. This article extends that analysis to a theory of philanthropic alliance, which explains and hypothesizes how several foundations working together can have greate…
Principles-focused evaluation for agroecology
This article offers a framework for evaluating agroecological principles, practices, and claims. Advocates of agroecology offer principles for sustainable, productive, and efficient agricultural systems. The evaluation question that immediately and inevitably arises in the face of such claims is: Does agroecology work? Thus do 2 fields of inquiry intersect: evaluation and agroecology. But there are many approaches to and models of evaluation. The…
How Far Dare an Evaluator Go Toward Saving the World
In 2004, Robert Stake published a provocative article that asked: “How Far Dare an Evaluator Go Toward Saving the World?” This question raises the issue of what role evaluators’ values play in the conduct of evaluations. Following review of Stake’s premises, I present value statements from a diverse group of 40 evaluators working with philanthropic foundations. The results update and revise Stake’s list of “six advocacies common in evaluation.” T…
Evaluation Use Theory, Practice, and Future Research
Marvin Alkin and Jean King published three AJE articles on evaluation use over four years, a coherent and comprehensive series covering the historical development of evaluation use, definitions and factors associated with use and misuse, and theories of evaluation use and influence, concluding with assessment of the first 50 years of use research. They conclude with recommendations for future theory development and research on evaluation. I draw …
Evaluation Criteria for Evaluating Transformation
Fundamental systems transformations are needed to address the global emergency brought on by climate change and related global trends, including the COVID-19 pandemic, which, together, pose existential threats to the future of humanity. Transformation has become the clarion call on the global stage. Evaluating transformation requires criteria. The revised Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development/Development Assistance Committee crite…
Full Issue #11.1
The Foundation
Evaluation Science
Culturally and politically science is under attack. The core consequence of perceiving and asserting evaluation as science is that it enhances our credibility and effectiveness in supporting the importance of science in our world and brings us together with other scientists to make common cause in supporting and advocating for science. Other consequences include communicating our role more clearly and credibly to those who value science. Viewing …
On the Life and Death Importance of Thinking
Personalizing Evaluation and Evaluative Research Methods
A Transcultural Global Systems Perspective
Ten dimensions of a core culture of evaluative inquiry are identified as themes that emerge from and cut across the diverse articles in this volume. Cross-cultural evaluation emerges as involving mixed methods; integrated epistemologies; politically and institutionally supporting indigenous peoples and cultures; framing cross-cultural intersections, interactions, and integration through an understanding and appreciation of complex ecologies; pers…
What is Essential in Developmental Evaluation? On Integrity, Fidelity, Adultery, Abstinence, Impotence, Long-Term Commitment, Integrity, and Sensitivity in Implementing Evaluation Models
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…
Remembering William Raymond Shadish Jr
Kindertageseinrichtungen: Qualitätsentwicklung im Diskurs
The Theory of Philanthropy of the Alberta Family Wellness Initiative
This article presents the theory of philanthropy of the Palix Foundation, which seeks to improve health and wellness outcomes for children and families in Alberta, Canada, by mobilizing and applying knowledge about brain and early childhood development and the link to lifelong mental health and addiction outcomes. Through years of intuitive exploration and adaptation, the foundation evolved its role to include brokering access to the latest scien…
A Foundation's Theory of Philanthropy
This article argues that philanthropic endeavors should be undergirded by a theory of philanthropy. Articulating a theory of philanthropy is a way for a foundation to make explicit what is often only implicit, thereby enabling internal and external actors to pose and resolve significant questions, understand and play important roles more fully and effectively, and improve performance by enhancing alignment across complex systems. A theory of phil…
Executive Summaries
This article explains what a theory of philanthropy is, how it contrasts with theory of change, and how it is more than, but incorporates, a foundation's philosophy and strategy. The three authors have more than 100 combined years of organizational consulting experience. The theory-of-philanthropy approach emerged from their work with foundation leaders who were seeking ways to more effectively integrate all aspects of their work -mission and val…
Reflections and Commentary on a Theory of Philanthropy
This special section of The Foundation Review includes four articles about theory of philanthropy, an approach for identifying and articulating a comprehensive and integrated synthesis of how and why a foundation operates as it does. The opening article explains what a theory of philanthropy is, how it contrasts with theory of change, and how it is more than -but incorporates -a foundation's philosophy and strategy. Next come two case studies, on…
Evaluation in the Field
Our understanding of programs is enhanced when trained, skilled, and observant evaluators go into the field – the real world where programs are conducted – paying attention to what’s going on, systematically documenting what they see, and reporting what they learn. The article opens by presenting and illustrating twelve reasons for building fieldwork into evaluation designs. While in-depth fieldwork is the evaluation ideal, the evaluation reality…
Two Decades of Developments in Qualitative Inquiry
The publication of the third edition of Qualitative Research and Evaluation Methods offers the author an opportunity to reflect back over two decades of developments in qualitative inquiry. Major developments include: the end of the qualitative-quantitative debate; the flowering of diverse and competing approaches within qualitative inquiry; the increased importance of mixed methods; the elaboration of purposeful sampling approaches; increasing r…
Discovering Process Use
Trying to figure out what’s really going on is, of course, a core function of evaluation. Part of such reality testing at a conference includes sorting out what our profession has become and is becoming, what our core disciplines are, and what issues deserve our attention. I have spent a good part of my evaluation career reflecting on these concerns, particularly from the point of view of use; for example, how to work with intended users to achie…
Evaluation, Knowledge Management, Best Practices, and High Quality Lessons Learned
Sampling, Qualitative (Purposeful)
Perhaps nothing better captures the difference between quantitative and qualitative methods than the different logics that undergird sampling approaches. Qualitative inquiry typically focuses in depth on relatively small samples, even single cases (n = 1), selected purposefully . Quantitative methods typically depend on larger samples selected randomly. Not only are the techniques for sampling different, but the very logic of each approach is uni…
Evaluation Criteria for Evaluating Transformation
Fundamental systems transformations are needed to address the global emergency brought on by climate change and related global trends, including the COVID-19 pandemic, which, together, pose existential threats to the future of humanity. Transformation has become the clarion call on the global stage. Evaluating transformation requires criteria. The revised Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development/Development Assistance Committee crite…
Learning in the Field
The Sociological Roots of Utilization-Focused Evaluation
A utilization-focused approach to contribution analysis
Utilization-focused evaluation involves identifying and working with primary intended users to design and interpret an evaluation. This includes the process of working with primary intended users to render judgments about the extent to which the preponderance of evidence supports a meaningful and useful conclusion about degree to which an intervention has affected observed outcomes and impacts. This is the essence of contribution analysis. Two in…
What is Essential in Developmental Evaluation? On Integrity, Fidelity, Adultery, Abstinence, Impotence, Long-Term Commitment, Integrity, and Sensitivity in Implementing Evaluation Models
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…
Sampling, Qualitative (Purposive)
Perhaps nothing better captures the difference between quantitative and qualitative methods than the different logics that undergird sampling approaches. Qualitative inquiry typically focuses in depth on relatively small samples, even single cases (n = 1), selected purposefully . Quantitative methods typically depend on larger samples selected randomly. Not only are the techniques for sampling different, but also the very logic of each approach i…
Evaluation Science
Culturally and politically science is under attack. The core consequence of perceiving and asserting evaluation as science is that it enhances our credibility and effectiveness in supporting the importance of science in our world and brings us together with other scientists to make common cause in supporting and advocating for science. Other consequences include communicating our role more clearly and credibly to those who value science. Viewing …
What Brain Sciences Reveal About Integrating Theory and Practice
Theory and practice are integrated in the human brain. Situation recognition and response are key to this integration. Scholars of decision making and expertise have found that people with great expertise are more adept at situational recognition and intentional about their decision-making processes. Several interdisciplinary fields of inquiry provide insights into how we manage situation recognition in the face of complexity. Classic works on bo…
How Far Dare an Evaluator Go Toward Saving the World
In 2004, Robert Stake published a provocative article that asked: “How Far Dare an Evaluator Go Toward Saving the World?” This question raises the issue of what role evaluators’ values play in the conduct of evaluations. Following review of Stake’s premises, I present value statements from a diverse group of 40 evaluators working with philanthropic foundations. The results update and revise Stake’s list of “six advocacies common in evaluation.” T…
Evaluation in the Field
Our understanding of programs is enhanced when trained, skilled, and observant evaluators go into the field – the real world where programs are conducted – paying attention to what’s going on, systematically documenting what they see, and reporting what they learn. The article opens by presenting and illustrating twelve reasons for building fieldwork into evaluation designs. While in-depth fieldwork is the evaluation ideal, the evaluation reality…
Myths as Normative Frames for Qualitative Interpretation of Life Stories
Myths offer a source of norms against which contemporary life events can be interpreted in the ancient tradition of meaning making. The author uses his son's initiation in the Grand Canyon to illustrate the normative use of myth for qualitative inquiry and interpretation. Ancient and cross-cultural coming of age myths, especially the Grail Legend, provided the lens through which their experiences became focused and illuminated. Enduring archetypa…
A Foundation's Theory of Philanthropy
This article argues that philanthropic endeavors should be undergirded by a theory of philanthropy. Articulating a theory of philanthropy is a way for a foundation to make explicit what is often only implicit, thereby enabling internal and external actors to pose and resolve significant questions, understand and play important roles more fully and effectively, and improve performance by enhancing alignment across complex systems. A theory of phil…
Some Framing Questions About Racism and Evaluation
Professor Stanfield’s article (this issue) stimulated several questions that are briefly discussed. How does the lens of race shape and effect our understandings and actions? How do we talk with each other about race and racism? How do we engage each other on these issues authentically at a time dominated by political correctness? What methods and measures fairly capture and communicate the experiences of people of color and the poor? Given the r…
Extension's Future
Cooperative Extension can no longer be understood primarily in terms of technology transfer approaches. The future Cooperative Extension model incorporates educational, developmental, and problem-solving mandates with technology transfer through “issues programming.” This has important political and substantive implications for Extension. The final section of this article contrasts the issues programming approach to the more traditional technolog…
Evaluation Use Theory, Practice, and Future Research
Marvin Alkin and Jean King published three AJE articles on evaluation use over four years, a coherent and comprehensive series covering the historical development of evaluation use, definitions and factors associated with use and misuse, and theories of evaluation use and influence, concluding with assessment of the first 50 years of use research. They conclude with recommendations for future theory development and research on evaluation. I draw …
Patton Responds to Fetterman, Wandersman, and Snell-Johns
Those unschooled in appreciative inquiry should not be misled into believing that Fetterman’s response represents that approach, which involves more than noting a few areas of agreement before turning defensive and disputatious, all the while denying the same. Labeling the book and his work empowerment evaluation (EE) scholarship and denying its explicit and overt political premises and agenda is disingenuous at best and an unfortunate switch in …
The View from Evaluation
Distant Echo of a Strong Voice
A Vision of Evaluation that Strengthens Democracy
Over the relatively short history of professional evaluation, those working in the field have directed considerable attention to both a vision of democratic approaches to evaluation and practice wisdom about how to realize that vision. In Europe, the democratic evaluation model of Barry MacDonald (1987) stands out. He argued that ‘the democratic evaluator ’ recognizes and supports value pluralism with the consequence that the evaluator should see…
Teaching and Training with Metaphors
Weiss' Call for Humility
Inquiries in Sociology, 1972; Instructor's Guide for Inquiries in Sociology, 1972; Episodes in Social Inquiry Series, 1969-1972; Readings in Sociology Series, 1969-1972
The New Jersey Income Maintenance Experiment, Volume III
Utilization-Focused Evaluation
Truth or Consequences in Evaluation
Qualitative evaluation methods
Patton's Qualitative Evaluation Methods is geared toward the scientific researcher or applied social scientist who wants to expand his or her evaluation repertoire. It is not a "how to" book, but rather it serves as a reference for scholarly exploration of alternatives to strictly quantitative evaluation processes. The book will assist social scientist in determining when it is appropriate to use qualitative methods and how to get useful and vali…
Reflections on Profession Practice As a Social Scientist
His current research interests include analyses of patterns of physician geographic mobility and sex differentials in physician mortality rates.Data on physician careers are used to analyze the manner in which the geographic mobility of physicians is linked to other .occupationalchanges.His analyses of mortality rates account for some of the persistent sex differentials in mortality rates found in the larger civilian population by unique employme…
Evaluation
The End of Methodology? A Review Essay on Evaluation Research Methods
User-focused evaluation
Effective Evaluation
Understanding Program Evaluation
This is a guidebook to better management through the use of program evaluation. It is directed to 2 primary audiences: 1) managers in charge of national state and local social programs and 2) students who may become program managers or on occasion carry out evaluations under the general direction of such managers. For the students and their instructors the cases and questions in the Appendix at the back of the book provide guidance for planning a…
Applied Sociological Perspectives
Applied Qualitative Research
Six honest serving men for evaluation
Extension's Future
Cooperative Extension can no longer be understood primarily in terms of technology transfer approaches. The future Cooperative Extension model incorporates educational, developmental, and problem-solving mandates with technology transfer through “issues programming.” This has important political and substantive implications for Extension. The final section of this article contrasts the issues programming approach to the more traditional technolog…
Unmoved but Not Unchanged
Family Sexual Abuse
Working with Poor Families
This article describes lessons learned from practice; lessons learned about how generally accepted guiding principles are translated into effective work with poor families. This article is based on the diverse experiences and evaluations of seven effective parent- ing/family stability programs which were part of The McKnight Foundations Families in Poverty initiative. A major focus of this article is on program dynamics and interconnections; char…
Discovering Process Use
Trying to figure out what’s really going on is, of course, a core function of evaluation. Part of such reality testing at a conference includes sorting out what our profession has become and is becoming, what our core disciplines are, and what issues deserve our attention. I have spent a good part of my evaluation career reflecting on these concerns, particularly from the point of view of use; for example, how to work with intended users to achie…
The Challenges of Diversity in Evaluation
As program evaluation has developed over the last twenty years into a viable profession, its central challenge has become to define what it means to be an evaluator. This debate is fueled less by traditional divisions between academic and service-related professionals, or disagreements over methodologies, than by sharply different visions of the evaluator's moral and political role, derived from the profession's historic roots in principles of so…
Comment on Agar
Some Framing Questions About Racism and Evaluation
Professor Stanfield’s article (this issue) stimulated several questions that are briefly discussed. How does the lens of race shape and effect our understandings and actions? How do we talk with each other about race and racism? How do we engage each other on these issues authentically at a time dominated by political correctness? What methods and measures fairly capture and communicate the experiences of people of color and the poor? Given the r…
Myths as Normative Frames for Qualitative Interpretation of Life Stories
Myths offer a source of norms against which contemporary life events can be interpreted in the ancient tradition of meaning making. The author uses his son's initiation in the Grand Canyon to illustrate the normative use of myth for qualitative inquiry and interpretation. Ancient and cross-cultural coming of age myths, especially the Grail Legend, provided the lens through which their experiences became focused and illuminated. Enduring archetypa…
Organizational Development and Evaluation
This article explores some of the opportunities open to evaluators as organizational development practitioners and the particular competencies and comparative advantages evaluators can bring to such initiatives. Examples include: (1) making systems connections between program culture and organizational culture (and therefore between program effectiveness and organizational effectiveness); (2) organizational mission fulfillment assessment (in cont…
Evaluation, Knowledge Management, Best Practices, and High Quality Lessons Learned
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