Barbara Schmidt-Abbey, Author at EES https://europeanevaluation.org European Evaluation Society Wed, 29 Mar 2023 15:50:46 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.9.7 “In Search of a Golden Mean for Systemic Evaluation” – a public debate between Michael Quinn Patton and Mike C. Jackson hosted by EES https://europeanevaluation.org/2023/03/29/in-search-of-a-golden-mean-for-systemic-evaluation-a-public-debate-between-michael-quinn-patton-and-mike-c-jackson-hosted-by-ees/ Wed, 29 Mar 2023 15:50:46 +0000 https://europeanevaluation.org/?p=14505 By TWG8 Co-leaders Barbara Schmidt-Abbey and Kirsten Bording Collins   The newly established EES Thematic Working Group 8 ‘Systems Approaches in Evaluation’ (TWG8) was honoured to host an online debate between two giants in their respective fields of evaluation practice and systems sciences, Michael Q. Patton and Mike C. Jackson, as TWG8’s public launch event […]

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]]> From first-order to second-order evaluation practice: time to shift the ground https://europeanevaluation.org/2022/08/30/from-first-order-to-second-order-evaluation-practice-time-to-shift-the-ground/ Tue, 30 Aug 2022 10:55:34 +0000 https://europeanevaluation.org/?p=13319 Barbara Schmidt-Abbey (Open University) Joan O’Donnell (Maynooth University) Kirsten Bording Collins (Adaptive Purpose)   Introduction The title of the 14th European Evaluation Society’s Biennial conference in Copenhagen in June 2022 posited that evaluation finds itself at a watershed and called for “actions and shifting paradigms in challenging times”. At the time of the conference, and […]

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