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Salah Eddine Bouyousfi; Miché Ouedraogo – American Journal of Evaluation, 2025
The use of complexity-based evaluation methods remains relatively underexplored in the field of evaluation. While increasingly employed to assess complex interventions, Contribution Analysis (CA) continues to suffer from a lack of operationalization. In this article, we propose enhancing the implementation of CA by leveraging Participatory Systems…
Descriptors: Evaluation Methods, Intervention, Difficulty Level, Systems Approach
Kainz, Kirsten; Metz, Allison; Yazejian, Noreen – American Journal of Evaluation, 2021
Large-scale education interventions aimed at diminishing disparities and generating equitable learning outcomes are often complex, involving multiple components and intended impacts. Evaluating implementation of complex interventions is challenging because of the interactive and emergent nature of intervention components. Methods that build from…
Descriptors: Program Evaluation, Intervention, Program Implementation, Systems Approach
Atkinson, John; Lasbennes, Florence; Nabarro, David – American Journal of Evaluation, 2021
We present this brief reflection on key aspects of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and the implications of the worldwide focus on achieving the sustainable development goals as external observers of the evaluation endeavor around the world. We have conducted and participated in evaluations, but it is not our primary field of work and…
Descriptors: Program Evaluation, Sustainability, Sustainable Development, Transformational Leadership
Moore, Marah; Parsons, Beverly; Jessup, Patricia – American Journal of Evaluation, 2019
Evaluators are becoming increasingly aware that, to provide maximum benefit to the programs they evaluate, they must address the systems within which the programs work. However, evaluation practice is often influenced by beliefs and assumptions that are rooted in an understanding of these systems as stable and predictable. We identify four traps…
Descriptors: Evaluators, Systems Approach, Beliefs, Program Evaluation
Koleros, Andrew; Mulkerne, Sean; Oldenbeuving, Mark; Stein, Danielle – American Journal of Evaluation, 2020
Despite a wide body of literature on the importance of program theory and the need to tackle complexity to improve international development programming, the use of program theory to underpin interventions aimed at facilitating change in complex systems remains a challenge for many program practitioners. The actor-based change framework offers a…
Descriptors: Theories, Intervention, Systems Approach, Change
Scott, V. C.; Alia, K.; Scaccia, J.; Ramaswamy, R.; Saha, S.; Leviton, L.; Wandersman, A. – American Journal of Evaluation, 2020
Sustainable community health improvement often requires the implementation of complex interventions in complex systems. Drawing from the "Four Keys to Success" frame (theory, implementation, support, and evaluation), this article describes how we used a formative evaluation approach to foster a learning system capable of monitoring and…
Descriptors: Formative Evaluation, Health Programs, Public Health, Program Implementation
Howley, Caitlin; Campbell, Johnavae; Cowley, Kimberly; Cook, Kimberly – American Journal of Evaluation, 2022
In this article, we reflect on our experience applying a framework for evaluating systems change to an evaluation of a statewide West Virginia alliance funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) to improve the early persistence of rural, first-generation, and other underrepresented minority science, technology, engineering, and mathematics…
Descriptors: Program Evaluation, Evaluation Methods, Systems Approach, Educational Change
Paz-Ybarnegaray, Rodrigo; Douthwaite, Boru – American Journal of Evaluation, 2017
This article describes the development and use of a rapid evaluation approach to meet program accountability and learning requirements in a research for development program operating in five developing countries. The method identifies clusters of outcomes, both expected and unexpected, happening within areas of change. In a workshop, change agents…
Descriptors: Evaluation Methods, Program Evaluation, Accountability, Developing Nations
Hargreaves, Margaret; Cole, Russell; Coffee-Borden, Brandon; Paulsell, Diane; Boller, Kimberly – American Journal of Evaluation, 2013
In recent years, increased focus on the effectiveness and accountability of prevention and intervention programs has led to greater government funding for the implementation and spread of evidence-based health and human service delivery models. In particular, attention has been paid to programs that require significant infrastructure investment…
Descriptors: Evidence, Intervention, Models, Sustainability
Urban, Jennifer Brown; Trochim, William – American Journal of Evaluation, 2009
Program evaluation and planning is at the heart of efforts to integrate the domains of practice and research. Traditionally, research and practice have operated in independent spheres with practitioners focused on the implementation of programs that affect individual behavior and researchers focused on the development and testing of theory.…
Descriptors: Theory Practice Relationship, Research and Development, Program Evaluation, Program Development
van Mierlo, Barbara; Arkesteijn, Marlen; Leeuwis, Cees – American Journal of Evaluation, 2010
Networks aiming for fundamental changes bring together a variety of actors who are part and parcel of a problematic context. These system innovation projects need to be accompanied by a monitoring and evaluation approach that supports and maintains reflexivity to be able to deal with uncertainties and conflicts while challenging current practices…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Program Descriptions, Program Implementation, Program Effectiveness

Darabi, Abbas – American Journal of Evaluation, 2002
Describes a program evaluation model that was developed over three semesters of teaching an introductory graduate-level course in program evaluation. The framework uses a systems approach that emphasizes its sequenced methodology and the significant of monitoring work through feedback loops in an ongoing revision process. (Author/SLD)
Descriptors: Evaluation Methods, Feedback, Graduate Students, Graduate Study
Molas-Gallart, Jordi; Davies, Andrew – American Journal of Evaluation, 2006
This article reviews the literature and practice concerned with the evaluation of science, technology, and innovation (STI) policies and the way these relate to theories of the innovation process. Referring to the experience of the European Union (EU), the authors review the attempts to ensure that the STI policy theory is informed by advances in…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Policy Analysis, Innovation, Technology