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Patton, Michael Quinn – Evaluation Practice, 1994
Developmental evaluation is proposed as a term to describe certain long-term partnering relationships with clients who are, themselves, engaged in ongoing program development. Rather than a model, developmental evaluation is a relationship founded on a shared purpose and is a way of being useful in innovative settings. (SLD)
Descriptors: Cooperation, Definitions, Empowerment, Evaluation Methods

Patton, Michael Quinn – Canadian Journal of Program Evaluation/La Revue canadienne d'evaluation de programme, 1999
Explores some opportunities open to evaluators as practitioners of organizational development and the advantages and competencies evaluators can bring to such initiatives. Presents eight examples of such opportunities. (SLD)
Descriptors: Empowerment, Evaluation Methods, Evaluators, Foreign Countries