Developmental Evaluation. Many potentialities and some limits of a reflexive approach to complex programmes evaluation

Journal title RIV Rassegna Italiana di Valutazione
Author/s Gabriele Tomei
Publishing Year 2017 Issue 2016/64
Language Italian Pages 23 P. 132-154 File size 1032 KB
DOI 10.3280/RIV2016-064008
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DE is one of the essential references of each evaluation that wander to support complex programmes’ dynamics engaging social actors in gathering, analysing and using research evidences. Reviewing some practical experimentation of DE and referring to the recent debate about the analytical dimensions of complexity, the article unveil that this approach is capable to explore only the social dimensions of complexity, but that it fails in tackling the technical and the institutional ones. Finally, the paper analyses how some recent evolution of DE (as outcome-based evaluation) introduced in its original framework some theoretical perspectives and methodological devices that can empower DE’s capability to understand also the technical and institutional dimensions of complexity.

Keywords: Developmental Evaluation; Complexity; Reflexive evaluation; Outcome Harvesting; Outcome Mapping

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Gabriele Tomei, Developmental Evaluation. Molte potenzialità e qualche limite di un approccio riflessivo alla valutazione dei programmi complessi in "RIV Rassegna Italiana di Valutazione" 64/2016, pp 132-154, DOI: 10.3280/RIV2016-064008