Article,
Appreciative Inquiry as a Method for Evaluation
American Journal of Evaluation, 27 (4): 466-474 (December 2006)M3: Interview; Christie, Christina A. 1 Email Address: tina.Christie@cgu.edu; Affiliations: 1: Claremont Graduate University; Source Information: Dec2006, Vol. 27 Issue 4, p466; Subject Term: ORGANIZATIONAL learning; Subject Term: ORGANIZATIONAL change; Subject Term: LEARNING; Subject Term: JOB evaluation; Subject Term: EVALUATION; People: PRESKILL, Hallie -- Interviews; Number of Pages: 9p; DOI: 10.1177/1098214006294402; Document Type: Interview.
Abstract
The article presents an interview with Hallie Preskill. When asked about his experience with appreciative inquiry (AI), she said that she came across AI in the organizational learning and development literature about 8 or 9 years ago and became excited about the possibilities it offered evaluators, particularly those who use participatory, collaborative, democratic, and learning approaches to evaluation. And the more she learned, the more she became convinced that the approach could not only enhance the use of evaluation findings but that it could contribute to process use and building evaluation capacity.; The article presents an interview with Hallie Preskill. When asked about his experience with appreciative inquiry (AI), she said that she came across AI in the organizational learning and development literature about 8 or 9 years ago and became excited about the possibilities it offered evaluators, particularly those who use participatory, collaborative, democratic, and learning approaches to evaluation. And the more she learned, the more she became convinced that the approach could not only enhance the use of evaluation findings but that it could contribute to process use and building evaluation capacity.
