{"product_id":"9781119378679","title":"Improvement Science in Evaluation: Methods and Uses: New Directions for Evaluation, Number 153","description":"\u003cp\u003eWhile improvement science has experienced a surge of interest over the past 30 years, applications of it are rare in the evaluation literature. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis issue promotes the cross-fertilization of ideas, techniques, and tools between evaluation and improvement science. There are at least four areas where this cross-fertilization is particularly relevant: learning from error, examining variation, appreciating context, and focusing on systems change. This volume considers:\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cul\u003e \u003cli\u003ethe conceptual similarities and distinctions between improvement science and evaluation;\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003ethe intellectual foundations, methods, and tools that collectively comprise improvement science; and\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003ecase chapters that offer an inspiring review of state-of-the-art improvement science applications.\u003c\/li\u003e \u003c\/ul\u003e Cutting across all of these applications is a shared grounding in systems thinking, a determination to capture and better understand variation and contextual complexity, as well as a sustained commitment to generative learning about projects and programs—all issues of great concern to evaluators. The issue offers producers and users of evaluations the potential benefits of a closer engagement with improvement science.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis is the 153rd issue in the \u003cb\u003eNew Directions for Evaluation\u003c\/b\u003e series from Jossey-Bass. It is an official publication ofthe American Evaluation Association.       ","brand":"Wiley","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47136493601008,"sku":"9781119378679","price":29.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781119378679_p0.jpg?v=1763697080","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781119378679","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}