Systems evaluation theory : a blueprint for practitioners evaluating complex interventions operating and functioning as systems

"Too often evaluation findings end of on the shelf! Why? Most interventions have many moving parts working together to achieve something each part cannot do independently. Unfortunately, many of the available evaluation approaches oversimplify this reality. A major reason for this is that evalu...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author Renger, Ralph (Author)
Format Electronic eBook
LanguageEnglish
Published Bingley, U.K : Emerald Publishing Limited : Information Age Publishing, Inc., 2022.
SeriesEvaluation and society.
Subjects
Evaluation research (Social action programs)
Evaluation.
System theory.
System analysis.
Social Science > Research.
Social research and statistics.
elektronické knihy
electronic books
Online AccessFull text
ISBN9781806602674
DOI10.1108/979-8-88730-044-3
Physical Description1 online resource (218 pages) : illustrations

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Table of Contents:
  • Prologue
  • Chapter 1. The rise of systems thinking in evaluation
  • Chapter 2. What is AI? system?
  • Chapter 3. System boundaries, levels, and subsystems
  • Chapter 4. Cross-cutting system attributes
  • Chapter 5. The why behind system evaluation theory
  • Chapter 6. System evaluation theory step 1, defining the complex intervention acting as AI? system
  • Chapter 7. System evaluation theory step 2, evaluating system efficiency (interdependencies)
  • Chapter 8. Evaluating system interdependencies using AI? family system case example
  • Chapter 9. System evaluation theory step 3, evaluating system effectiveness (emergence)
  • Chapter 10. Deriving recommendations
  • Chapter 11. Resistance to system evaluation.

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