Report advocates for evidence-based approaches to educattion and offers pathway to using evidence-based innovations and significantly improving student outcomes.
In response to the growing interest of grantmakers and network builders, this casebook profiles nine evaluations that address key questions about network effectiveness while expanding what is known about assessment approaches that fit with how networks develop and function.
Evaluating Networks for Social Change: A Casebook Read More »
In response to the growing interest of grantmakers and network builders, this paper examines the current state of the field of network evaluation. It discusses why network evaluation is of increasing interest to funders and to practitioners, and offers the field’s current thinking on network evaluation frameworks, approaches, and tools.
Framing Paper: The State of Network Evaluation Read More »
Report highlights the need and gives reccomendations for streamlining systems to support implementation, scale-up, and sustainability of evience-based home visiting programs with fidelity.
This paper describes the use of concepts from Social Networks and Social Exchange theories to implement an evidence-based practice in afterschool programs
This Guide provides funders with practical advice on how to think about and use evidence of effectiveness when considering investments in scale-up opportunities. The Guide does not seek to turn private funders into evaluation experts or to delve into the methodological details of particular research approaches. Rather, the focus is on the right questions that
A Funder’s Guide to Using Evidence of Program Effectiveness in Scale-up Decisions Read More »
Rooted in diffusion theory, popularized by Everett Rogers the report aims to inform, inspire and help practitioners, policy makers and leading thinkers to make widespread improvements.
Scaling Up, Staying True Read More »
Includes a thorough literature review, initial investigation and taxonomy to describe new emergent networks: Knowledge Networks, Operational and Delivery Networks, Policy Networks, Advocacy Networks, Watchdog Networks, Platforms, Standards Networks, Governance Networks, Networked Institutions and Diasporas.
A framing article that introduces some of the current thinking around the uses and benefits of networks.
This essay raises the following broad questions: (1) What role can learning networks play in addressing wicked problems? (2) How can leaders of organizations in the food and agricultural sector facilitate and accelerate the development of such networks? (3) What is the value proposition for existing multi-stakeholder initiatives to participate in learning networks such as
Learning and Transformative Networks to Address Wicked Problems: A Golden Invitation Read More »
