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Improvement Science in Evaluation: Methods and Uses
New Directions for Evaluation, Number 153J-B PE Single Issue (Program) Evaluation 1. Aufl.
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| Verlag: | Wiley |
| Format: | EPUB |
| Veröffentl.: | 17.03.2017 |
| ISBN/EAN: | 9781119378679 |
| Sprache: | englisch |
| Anzahl Seiten: | 112 |
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<p>While improvement science has experienced a surge of interest over the past 30 years, applications of it are rare in the evaluation literature.</p> <p>This issue promotes the cross-fertilization of ideas, techniques, and tools between evaluation and improvement science. There are at least four areas where this cross-fertilization is particularly relevant: learning from error, examining variation, appreciating context, and focusing on systems change. This volume considers:</p> <ul> <li>the conceptual similarities and distinctions between improvement science and evaluation;</li> <li>the intellectual foundations, methods, and tools that collectively comprise improvement science; and</li> <li>case chapters that offer an inspiring review of state-of-the-art improvement science applications.</li> </ul> <p>Cutting across all of these applications is a shared grounding in systems thinking, a determination to capture and better understand variation and contextual complexity, as well as a sustained commitment to generative learning about projects and programs—all issues of great concern to evaluators. The issue offers producers and users of evaluations the potential benefits of a closer engagement with improvement science.</p> <p>This is the 153rd issue in the <b>New Directions for Evaluation</b> series from Jossey-Bass. It is an official publication ofthe American Evaluation Association.</p>
<p>Editors’ Notes 7<br /><i>Christina A. Christie, Moira Inkelas, Sebastian Lemire</i></p> <p>1. Understanding the Similarities and Distinctions Between Improvement Science and Evaluation 11<br /><i>Christina A. Christie, Sebastian Lemire, Moira Inkelas</i></p> <p>This chapter considers the similarities and distinctions between improvement science and evaluation according to use, valuing, and methods.</p> <p>2. The Methods and Tools of Improvement Science 23<br /><i>Sebastian Lemire, Christina A. Christie, Moira Inkelas</i></p> <p>This chapter introduces the intellectual foundation, core principles, and selected tools of improvement science.</p> <p>3. Timely and Appropriate Healthcare Access for Newborns: A Neighborhood-Based, Improvement Science Approach 35<br /><i>Courtney M. Brown, Robert S. Kahn, Neera K. Goyal</i></p> <p>This chapter illustrates the application of quality improvement science techniques to iteratively address family- and system-level barriers to primary care.</p> <p>4. Improvement for a Community Population: The Magnolia Community Initiative 51<br /><i>Moira Inkelas, Patricia Bowie, Lila Guirguis</i></p> <p>This chapter illustrates how a network of diverse organizations can use iterative learning cycles to come up with promising ideas, test and prototype these ideas, and spread and sustain what is found to work for a community population.</p> <p>5. Breaking the “Adopt, Attack, Abandon” Cycle: A Case for Improvement Science in K–12 Education 65<br /><i>Kristen Rohanna</i></p> <p>This chapter describes the implementation of rapid cycles of evaluations (Plan–Do–Study–Act cycles) to adapt interventions to local school contexts.</p> <p>6. Online Learning as a Wind Tunnel for Improving Teaching 79<br /><i>James W. Stigler, Karen B. Givvin</i></p> <p>This chapter considers the potential value of combining improvement science and online learning.</p> <p>7. Value and Opportunity for Improvement Science in Evaluation 93<br /><i>Moira Inkelas, Christina A. Christie, Sebastian Lemire</i></p> <p>This concluding chapter reflects on the case examples comprising this volume and considers the major benefits and implications of integrating improvement science more firmly in evaluation.</p> <p>Index 103</p>
<b>Christina A. Christie</b> is professor and chair of the Department of Education in the Graduate School of Education and Information Studies, University of California, Los Angeles. <p><b>Moira Inkelas</b> is an associate professor in the Department of Health Policy and Management in the UCLA Fielding School of Public Health and assistant director of the Center for Healthier Children, Families and Communities.</p> <p><b>Sebastian Lemire</b> is a doctoral candidate in the Social Research Methodology Division in the Graduate School of Education and Information Studies, University of California, Los Angeles.</p>
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