An interdisciplinary and interagency evaluation team: Benefits for other-discipline specialists

Rockwell, S. Kay; Buck, Janet S.

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“…1996). Although the benefits include gaining insights into job‐specific tasks and interagency collaboration, as well as acquiring broader professional skills, the stresses involved are the tensions surrounding the evaluation goals and objectives, time commitments and the differing perceptions about the appropriateness of the evaluation methods (Rockwell & Buck 1995).…”

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Collaboration and partnerships: developing the evidence base

Ansari

Phillips

Hammick

2001

Health Soc Care Community

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Despite the growing literature that collaboration is a 'good' thing, there are calls emphasising the need for evidence of its effectiveness. However, the nature of the evidence to assess effectiveness is less clear. This paper examines the components that contribute to the challenges that confront evidence on collaboration. It considers the differing interpretations that have been placed on evaluation and explores how ways of determining the outcomes of collaboration and the levels of outcome measurement to assess collaborative effectiveness are influenced by the multifactorial nature of the concept. Evidence on the impact of collaboration is influenced by the diversity of perspectives and conceptual facets, and difficulty in measurement of the notions involved. Other factors discussed are the choice of macro or micro evaluation, of proximal or distal indicators, of short and long-term effects, or of individual-level or collective community-level outcomes. The suitability of randomised controlled trials for the measurement of collaborative outcomes as well as the requirement of mixed methods evaluations are highlighted. An evaluation of five community partnerships in South Africa is employed as an example to link the evaluation concepts that are discussed to a real enquiry. If collaboration is to be successful in making a difference in the lives of people, then increasing the precision and context of appraising its effectiveness will reduce the nature of inconclusive evidence and is likely to improve the practice of partnerships, coalitions and joint working in health and social care.

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Section: Who Should Conduct Evaluations Of Collaboration?mentioning

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Collaboration and partnerships: developing the evidence base

Ansari

Phillips

Hammick

2001

Health Soc Care Community

158

136

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“…Having expertise from both systems in the evaluation team will provide assurance to external and internal interests that the team is legitimate and the methods credible. It is important that the representatives of natural system knowledge are integrally involved with all aspects of the evaluation including determining the evaluation questions and research design (Rockwell & Buck, ). Assume that human and natural systems have different scales and units of account. An evaluation needs to be clear on this from the outset—it is part of defining the evaluand.…”

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Sustainability‐Ready Evaluation: A Call to Action

Rowe

2019

New Drctns Evaluation

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Evaluation is at the cusp of two urgent challenges: indigenous evaluation and sustainability. How we respond to these challenges can dramatically affect the future of evaluation. A sustainability‐ready evaluation will be transformative. It will be an evaluation that recognizes that human and natural systems are coupled, and that evaluation portfolios are now and will increasingly be affected by our connections to natural system forces including climate. Sustainability‐ready evaluation will be an evaluation that reaches well past the intervention to important public policy goals and to key sustainability challenges. Evaluating coupled human and natural systems will be challenging. Fortunately, technical barriers do not prevent us from starting to infuse sustainability into evaluation; the barriers are social and associated with the worldview and vision of evaluation. To facilitate the development of sustainability‐ready evaluation, this paper provides an initial checklist and references to useful resources. Absent transformations to become sustainability‐ready evaluation will lack relevance for many of the current and future key issues of our times. Fields lacking relevance are themselves not sustainable.

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“…This means that the manager must identify the strengths of each group member and deploy each at the right moment and in synergistic combination with the skills of others. The benefits are generally worth the effort because at the conclusion, more often than not, participants report being satisfied with their involvement in the process and judge the resulting information to be useful (Rockwell & Buck, 1995). The evaluator should contribute to making a climate that permits each team member to gain some understanding and appreciation into the insights and concerns of other disciplines.…”

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Cross-Disciplinarization: A New Talisman for Evaluation?

Jacob

2008

American Journal of Evaluation

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Reflections on crossing disciplinary lines abound in the scientific community. Can cross-disciplinary approaches, with all their complexity and particularities, provide the way forward in the search for practical solutions to real-world problems? In this article, the author addresses how the debate on cross-disciplinarization pertains to the field of policy evaluation. Evaluation is appropriate terrain for such a discussion as this particular field of social science seeks to produce useful knowledge for both managers and policy makers. As such, the author offers a general account of the advantages and disadvantages of cross-disciplinary evaluation. Because evaluation requires close collaboration between individuals from different domains and backgrounds, the author further outlines the specific challenges that face the practitioner when conducting a cross-disciplinary evaluation.

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An interdisciplinary and interagency evaluation team: Benefits for other-discipline specialists

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Collaboration and partnerships: developing the evidence base

Collaboration and partnerships: developing the evidence base

Sustainability‐Ready Evaluation: A Call to Action

Cross-Disciplinarization: A New Talisman for Evaluation?

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