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The Evaluation Influence Frameworks - A Review of Evaluation Influence

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What can be seen in descriptive research?

32% of the studies in this review were discriptive in that evaluation influence was used as a framework to present how the influence of an evaluation played out over time.

While illustrative of mechanisms, and the interconnection of influences that is central to the concept of evaluation influence (the how; Mark, 2011), these studies lack any systematic analysis of why influence did/did not occur, and have limited basis to suggest approaches to fostering influence (research gap!).

What can be seen in analytical research?

Most of the reviewed studies (54%) involved research that has attempted to analyze evaluation influence to attempt to explain why (or why not) influence has occurred.

What can be seen in Hypothesis Testing Research?

Relatively few studies in this field (14%) set out with a hypothesis to test, and for those that did, the research was often employed influence more as a means to test some other hypothesis.
Studies included, identified evaluation influence as the conceptual foundation of the research, made some specific inference based on existing research and tested their hypothesis in the context of an evaluation or among participants with experience of evaluations.

What did Mark (2008) call for in research?

Mark (2008) calls for efforts to unpack evaluation influence through simple research questions and to build a bodyof evidence for the framework and mechanisms of evaluation influence.

But: focusing on f.e. individual level, obscures the connection to interpersonal and collective level influence.

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Researching Evaluation Influence: A review of the literature

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