کد مقاله کد نشریه سال انتشار مقاله انگلیسی نسخه تمام متن
322491 540070 2014 9 صفحه PDF دانلود رایگان
عنوان انگلیسی مقاله ISI
Developmental evaluation and the ‘Stronger Economies Together’ initiative in the United States
ترجمه فارسی عنوان
رشد سنجش و «اقتصاد قوی تر با هم »،ابتکار عمل در ایالات متحده آمریکا
کلمات کلیدی
نظارت بر برنامه؛ توسعه روستایی؛ سنجش؛ برنامه ریزی منطقه ای
موضوعات مرتبط
علوم پزشکی و سلامت پزشکی و دندانپزشکی سیاست های بهداشت و سلامت عمومی
چکیده انگلیسی


• We conducted a developmental evaluation of a national rural development initiative in the U.S.
• Ongoing evaluator/client communication facilitated transfer of research findings.
• Developmental evaluators must be flexible, nimble, creative, and adaptive.
• The client implemented actionable recommendations by the evaluators immediately.

This article describes a developmental evaluation and explains its impact on the Stronger Economies Together (SET) initiative of the U.S. Department of Agriculture in collaboration with the Nation's four Regional Rural Development Centers and Land-Grant universities. Through a dynamic process, this evaluation of the early phases of an initiative led to continuous program alterations based on feedback. The relationship of the evaluation team to the initiative's coordinating team enabled seamless transfer of observations, suggestions, and recommendations to decision makers. The multidisciplinary character of the evaluation team provided a diverse set of perspectives with a depth of subject matter and knowledge from relevant fields. One lesson is that developmental evaluators must be flexible, nimble, creative, and adaptive. When expected data are imperfect or nonexistent, the team must collect alternate information and make recommendations to improve data collection. As the initiative proceeded and modifications came about, the evaluation team had to recognize the changes in the program and focus on different questions. This experience with developmental evaluation provides insights into how interdisciplinary teams may need to change course and conduct a developmental evaluation when a formative evaluation was originally envisioned.

ناشر
Database: Elsevier - ScienceDirect (ساینس دایرکت)
Journal: Evaluation and Program Planning - Volume 43, April 2014, Pages 64–72
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