Systematic iteration between model and methodology: A proposed approach to evaluating unintended consequences

Jonathan A. Morell

Evaluation and Program Planning, 2018, vol. 68, issue C, 243-252

Abstract: This article argues that evaluators could better deal with unintended consequences if they improved their methods of systematically and methodically combining empirical data collection and model building over the life cycle of an evaluation. This process would be helpful because it can increase the timespan from when the need for a change in methodology is first suspected to the time when the new element of the methodology is operational.

Keywords: Unintended consequences; Evaluation; Complexity; Model; Logic model; Change pattern (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2018
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DOI: 10.1016/j.evalprogplan.2017.09.006

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