The term developmental evaluation first entered in the literature in 1994 when Michael
Quinn Patton used the phrase in an article exploring the relationship between evaluation …

The term developmental evaluation was coined by Michael Quinn Patton in the mid-1990s to
describe the role of evaluators in the development of an innovative initiative. Core …

“The discipline of evaluation has something to offer social innovators that can really help
them succeed. Developmental evaluation is based on the insight that evaluative thinking …

Developmental evaluation has emerged fairly recently as a way to support adaptive learning
in complex and emergent initiatives. Combining the rigour of evaluation with the flexibility …

" Developmental evaluation (DE) provides evaluative information and feedback to social
innovators, and their funders and supporters, to inform adaptive development of change …

Abstract Developmental evaluation (Patton, 1994, 2011) is one of the latest approaches to
be introduced into evaluation practice. It purports to support the development of social …

This is the most comprehensive and complete developmental evaluation in this book. It was
designed in phases over a 10-year period, as the innovative antipoverty initiative Vibrant …

In the last 20 years, developmental evaluation has emerged as a promising approach to
support organizational learning in emergent social programs. Through a continuous system …

5 Special thanks to Mark Cabaj for contributing to the thinking about different kinds of
problems. 6 We might call this kind of problem simple or even technical. 7 For more detail on …

Change. Language matters. It simultaneously suggests possibilities and communicates
boundaries. We can't think without it and with it our thinking is inevitably constrained. Why …