A Dialogical, Story-Based Evaluation Tool
The Most Significant Change Technique
Datos Bibliográficos
| ID | 12471754 |
|---|---|
| Autores | Jessica Dart (Department of Primary Industries, autor de correspondencia), Rick Davies (0000-0002-6889-3314) |
| Año | 2003 |
| Volumen | 24 |
| Número | 2 |
| Páginas | 137-155 |
| Fecha de publicación | 2003-06-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Sí |
| Open Access | Sí |
| Tipo | ARTICLE |
| Revista | American Journal of Evaluation (JOURNAL) |
| Identificadores de la revista | ISSN: 1098-2140 • E-ISSN: 1557-0878 |
| Editorial | SAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1177/109821400302400202 |
| OpenAlex | W4235239557 |
| Idioma | EN |
| Citas recibidas | 88 |
| Referencias citadas | 9 |
The Most Significant Change (MSC) technique is a dialogical, story-based technique. Its primary purpose is to facilitate program improvement by focusing the direction of work towards explicitly valued directions and away from less valued directions. MSC can also make a contribution to summative evaluation through both its process and its outputs. The technique involves a form of continuous values inquiry whereby designated groups of stakeholders search for significant program outcomes and then deliberate on the value of these outcomes in a systematic and transparent manner. To date, MSC has largely been used for the evaluation of international development programs, after having been initially developed for the evaluation of a social development program in Bangladesh (Davies, 1996). This article provides an introduction to MSC and discusses its potential to add to the basket of choices for evaluating programs in developed economies. We provide an Australian case study and outline some of the strengths and weaknesses of the technique. We conclude that MSC can make an important contribution to evaluation practice. Its unusual methodology and outcomes make it ideal for use in combination with other techniques and approaches
Dialogical self · Epistemology · Evaluation methods · Formative assessment · Ideal (ethics · Management science · Mathematics education · Political science · Process (computing · Process management · Program evaluation · Sociology · Strengths and weaknesses · Summative assessment · Theory of change · Value (mathematics · Community and Sustainable Development · Complex Systems and Decision Making · Computer Science · Engineering · Evaluation and Performance Assessment · Psychology · Social Psychology
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| Obras citantes distintas | 88 |
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| Citas por año | 4,19 |
| Intervalo de citas | 2005 - 2026 (22) |
| Velocidad de citación | current |
| Altamente citado | No |
| Tipos de cita | Neutras: 88 |