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| List of Exhibits | |
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| Developmental Evaluation Defined and Positioned | |
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| The Distinction Emerges | |
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| Facing Complexity and Facing Reality: Or, Facing the Realities of Complexity | |
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| Developmental Evaluation and Complexity Theory | |
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| Developmental Evaluation and Single-Loop versus Double-Loop Learning | |
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| The Importance of Interpretive Frameworks | |
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| Developmental Evaluation as Utilization-Focused | |
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| Charting the Developmental Journey: Overview of the Book | |
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| Five Developmental Evaluation Purposes and Uses | |
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| Developmental Evaluation as a Distinct Purpose and Niche | |
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| Beyond Planning: Jumping into the Fire | |
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| Evaluation Questions under Different Engagement Scenarios | |
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| Vision Encounters Reality: The Territory of Developmental Evaluation | |
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| Systems Issues: Boundary Management as a Developmental Evaluation Focus | |
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| Developing Innovations versus Improving and Testing Models: Developmental Evaluation Distinguished from Formative and Summative Evaluation | |
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| Ongoing Development Informed by Developmental Evaluation | |
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| Strategic Thinking and Developmental Evaluation | |
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| The Niche of Developmental Evaluation: Chapter Overview and Summary | |
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| Thinking Outside Evaluation's Boxes | |
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| Creative Evaluation | |
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| Of Plums and Prunes | |
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| History and Biography as Context: The Personal Factor | |
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| More History and Biography as Context | |
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| Fundamental Principles | |
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| Developmental Evaluation in Context | |
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| External Evaluators and Developmental Evaluation | |
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| Ten Key Points about Developmental Evaluation Illustrated by the Caribbean Example | |
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| Situation Recognition and Responsiveness: Distinguishing Simple, Complicated, and Complex | |
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| Detecting Patterns | |
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| Detecting Complexity as a Distinct Pattern and Territory for Inquiry | |
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| The Challenges of Situation Recognition | |
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| A Situation Recognition Heuristic: Distinguishing Simple, Complicated, and Complex | |
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| Situational Evaluation: Implications for Practice | |
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| Variations on a Theme: The Cynefin Framework | |
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| Systems Thinking and Complexity Concepts for Developmental Evaluation | |
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| From Train Brakeman to Locomotive Engineer to Evaluation Champion | |
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| Project SleepBetter | |
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| Systems Thinking | |
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| Complexities of Complexity | |
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| Useful Complexity Constructs for Developmental Evaluation | |
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| Complexity-Sensitizing Concepts | |
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| How the World Is Changed: A Dialectic with Thesis and Antithesis and Developmental Evaluation as the Synthesis | |
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| Competing Perspectives on How the World Is Changed | |
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| The Top-Down Approach | |
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| Adaptation versus Replication: Principles for Developmental Evaluation | |
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| Best Practices versus Effective Principles | |
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| From the Grass Roots to the Adaptive Middle | |
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| Alternative Approaches to Change | |
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| Developmental Evaluation: The Action in the Muddled Middle | |
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| Looking Back and Looking Forward | |
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| Positioning and Contrasting Developmental Evaluation with Other Evaluation Approaches | |
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| The Adaptive Cycle and Developmental Evaluation | |
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| Some Context for Understanding the Adaptive Cycle: Poetry, Ecology, Sociology, Business, and Evaluation | |
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| The Complexity Doorframe Redux | |
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| Five Developmental Evaluation Purposes and Uses | |
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| Resilience and Developmental Evaluation | |
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| A Strategic Approach to Resilience: Engineering Resilience versus Ecosystem Resilience | |
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| The Adaptive Cycle | |
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| The Adaptive Cycle and Psychosocial Regimes | |
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| Evaluation and the Adaptive Cycle | |
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| Through the Looking Glass of the Adaptive Cycle: Examples of Organizational and Program Cycles | |
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| Transitions and Traps | |
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| Taking an Innovation to Scale: Challenges and Traps in Cross-Scale Change | |
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| Panarchy: Cross-Scale Interactions | |
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| Panarchy-Informed Evaluation: The Fact of a Doorframe | |
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| Developmental Evaluation Inquiry Frameworks | |
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| Frameworks for Developmental Evaluation Inquiry | |
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| Developmental Evaluation Inquiry Frameworks: Ten and Counting | |
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| Developmental Evaluation Bricolage: Reflective Practice, Sensitizing Concepts, Action Research, Abduction, Systems Change, and Retrospective Developmental Evaluation | |
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| Reflective Practice for Developmental Evaluation Inquiry and Engagement | |
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| Sensitizing Concepts as a Focus for Reflective Practice and Developmental Evaluation | |
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| Kia ora | |
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| Action Research and Developmental Evaluation | |
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| Intersections of Developmental Evaluation and Action Research: A Distinguished Evaluation Pioneer Reflects | |
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| Reasoning and Developmental Evaluation | |
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| In Praise of Methodological Diversity and Appropriateness: A Methods and Tools Rant | |
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| Systems Change and Developmental Evaluation | |
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| Retrospective Developmental Evaluation | |
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| Damiano's Retrospective Developmental Evaluation | |
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| Developmental Evaluation Bricolage | |
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| Utilization-Focused Developmental Evaluation: Engagement Practices, Diverse Designs, and Adaptive Methods | |
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| Different Kinds of Developmental Evaluation | |
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| Diversity of Design and Methods Options | |
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| Utilization-Focused Developmental Evaluation | |
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| Ten Utilization-Focused Developmental Evaluation Design Examples | |
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| Developmental Evaluation Engagement, Design, and Methods Summary | |
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| The First Developmental Evaluation: A Creation Story | |
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| References | |
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| Author Index | |
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| Subject Index | |
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| About the Author | |