The Practice and Politics of Responsive Evaluation
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12470792 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Tineke Abma (0000-0002-8902-322X, Cal Humanities, corresponding author), Tineke A Abma (Maastricht University) |
| Year | 2006 |
| Volume | 27 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 31-43 |
| Publication date | 2006-02-17 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | American Journal of Evaluation (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1098-2140 • E-ISSN: 1557-0878 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1177/1098214005283189 |
| OpenAlex | W1981509689 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 34 |
| References cited | 30 |
Responsive evaluation offers a perspective in which evaluation is reframed from the assessment of program interventions on the basis of policy makers' goals to an engagement with and among all stakeholders about the value and meaning of their practice. Responsive evaluators have to be extra sensitive to power relations given the deliberate attempts to acknowledge ambiguity and the plurality of interests and values and to foster genuine dialogue. The author illustrates the practice and politics of responsive evaluation with case examples from two policy fields, arts education and mental health care. In these evaluation studies, process-oriented heuristics have been developed to deal with the unequal social relations and power in responsive evaluation. As such, responsive evaluation offers an interesting example of the politics of evaluation. The emerging heuristics may be helpful to other evaluation approaches
Ambiguity · Economics · Epistemology · Heuristics · Management science · Meaning (existential · Political science · Politics · Process (computing · Program evaluation · Psychotherapist · Public relations · Sociology · Value (mathematics · Computer Science · Educational Assessment and Improvement · Evaluation and Performance Assessment · Health Policy Implementation Science · Law · Psychology · Public Administration
(Non)Construction of the Teacher
Social workers and generative practices for the inclusion of people with intellectual disabilities
The Client in Intrinsic Agency-Based Evaluation
Passible polyphony
Patient participation as dialogue
Values Engagement in Evaluation
Pedagogical ethical dilemmas in a responsive evaluation of a leadership program for youth
Problematisations of Complexity
Barriers and drivers in online micro-course professional development
Power as an enabling force
Standing Up or Standing By? Middle School Students and Teachers Respond to Bullying
Empowerment Evaluation, Postprofessionalization, and Oligarchy
Implementation of guidelines on Family Involvement for persons with Psychotic disorders
Addressing Urgent Community Mental Health Needs in Rwanda
The Value of Inequality
Practising Political Care Ethics
Autoethnography as a praxis of care – the promises and pitfalls of autoethnography as a commitment to care
Dealing with Distrust and Power Dynamics
Enriching evaluation practice through care ethics
Developing expertise in managing dialogue in the ‘third space’
Practising environmental policy evaluation under co-existing evaluation imaginaries
S&T indicators as a tool for formative evaluation of research programs
Evaluation and/as Social Relation
Responsive Meta-Evaluation
Complicity Revisited
Responsive Evaluation in the Interference Zone Between System and Lifeworld
Rooting Evaluation Guidelines in Relational Ethics
Using Zaltman Metaphor Elicitation Technique to Map Beneficiaries’ Experiences and Values
How Analogue Research Can Advance Descriptive Evaluation Theory
Improving place reputation
Physical activity advocacy in the UK
Gay-friendly elderly care
Using the Extended Case Method to Expand the Scope of Policy Research
Methodological Issues in Emergent Evaluations of Health Programs
Handbook of qualitative research
Beyond Objectivism and Relativism
Standards-Based & Responsive Evaluation
Translating Local Knowledge at Organizational Peripheries
Stakeholder Participation and Utilization in Program Evaluation
Fourth-Generation Evaluation
Dialogue on Dialogue
Rhetorical Spaces
Dialogue in Evaluation
Dialogue in Evaluation
A Postscript on Thinking about Dialogue
Public Managers Amidst Ambiguity
Focus Group Design and Group Dynamics
Focus group design and group dynamics
Encyclopedia of Evaluation
The Fragility of Goodness
Beyond Objectivism and Relativism
Storytelling as Inquiry in a Mental Hospital
On Understanding Understanding
Creating Understanding That Cultivates Change
| Unique citing works | 34 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1,7 |
| Citation span | 2006 - 2025 (20) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 34 |