Using appreciative inquiry in evaluation

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Title:

Author:

Preskill, Hallie S.

ISBN:

9780787972691

Publication Information:

San Francisco : Jossey-Bass, c2003.

Physical Description:

103 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.

Series:

New directions for evaluation ; no. 100

Jossey-Bass education series

Series Title:

New directions for evaluation ; no. 100

Jossey-Bass education series

General Note:

"Winter 2003."

"A publication of the American Evaluation Association."

Contents:

Overview of appreciative inquiry in evaluation / Appreciative evaluation within a conflicted educational context / Using appreciative inquiry to guide an evaluation of the International Women's Media Foundation Africa Program / Using appreciative inquiry to evaluate project activities of a nongovernmental organization supporting victims of trauma in Sri Lanka / Incorporating appreciative inquiry methods to evaluate a youth development program / Appreciating appreciative inquiry / Inquiry into appreciative evaluation

Title Subject:

Action research case studies.

Subject Term:

Action research.

Social sciences -- Research.

Organizational change.

Organizational behavior.

Added Author:

Preskill, Hallie S.

Coghlan, Anne T.

Added Corporate Author:

American Evaluation Association.

Electronic Access:

http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/cgi-bin/jissue/106571288

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Summary

This issue explores the potential role of Appreciative Inquiry, a process that searches for what is best in people and organizations, in evaluation. Contributors examine Appreciative Inquiry's approach and impact on the use of evaluation processes and findings, the contextual factors or conditions that make its use in evaluation appropriate, and the challenges of using it.

Chapters also provide an overview of Appreciative Inquiry and how it fits within the landscape of evaluation practice, four case studies, and commentary and critique of specific points in this issue, as well as broader consideration of the possibilities that Appreciative Inquiry offers to evaluation practice.

By offering evaluators an approach and method for discovering and building on the positive aspects of a program, Appreciative Inquiry is an valuable resource for evaluators. This issue is an indispensable guide to that resource.