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Formative Evaluation

Formative evaluation is evaluation conducted to improve a program, policy or product while it is still being developed or refined. The term was coined by Michael Scriven in his 1967 essay 'The Methodology of Evaluation', alongside its counterpart summative evaluation. Where summative evaluation renders a final verdict on a completed intervention, formative evaluation feeds timely information back to designers and implementers so they can fix problems, adjust components and strengthen the intervention before it is finalised or scaled.

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Formative Evaluation for Program Improvement

Taxonomic method record · process-pipeline / public-policy

Scriven, M. (1967). The methodology of evaluation. In R. W. Tyler, R. M. Gagné, & M. Scriven (Eds.), Perspectives of Curriculum Evaluation (pp. 39–83). Chicago: Rand McNally. · ISBN 9780528616600

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Taxonomic bucketDevelopmental Evaluationmachine-suggested · Relational suggestion, not evidence.Taxonomic bucketProcess Evaluationmachine-suggested · Relational suggestion, not evidence.Taxonomic bucketSummative Evaluationmachine-suggested · Relational suggestion, not evidence.Taxonomic bucketUtilization-Focused Evaluationmachine-suggested · Relational suggestion, not evidence.