The challenges of making evaluation useful

Michael Quinn Patton

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The evaluation profession has been studying ways of increasing the use of evaluations. Here are some of the things we've learned are important for evaluations to be useful: being clear about intended uses by primary intended users; creating and nurturing a results-oriented, reality-testing culture that supports evaluation use; collaboration in deciding what outcomes to commit to and hold yourselves accountable for; making measurement of outcomes and program processes thoughtful, meaningful, timely, and credible — and integrated into the program; using the results in a visible and transparent way, and modeling for others serious use of results.

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DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1590/10.1590/S0104-40362005000100005

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