Brousselle for Implementation Evaluation

How Does Complexity Impact Evaluation? an Introduction to the Special Issue.

In recent years, the evaluation of complex interventions has been of great interest to members of the evaluation community. In this special issue of the Canadian Journal of Program Evaluation, we explore how evaluators, in their practice, approach the evaluation of complex interventions. The aim of this issue is not to provide exhaustive coverage of all the different ways of evaluating complex ...

Evaluating interventions aimed at promoting information utilization in organizations and systems.

This paper presents a theoretical and practical framework for evaluating interventions aimed at promoting information utilization in organizational decision-making. The framework integrates three distinct yet complementary theoretical perspectives on information utilization in politico-administrative systems: (1) the literature on evaluation utilization, (2) current thinking on knowledge transf...

Program theory evaluation: Logic analysis.

Program theory evaluation, which has grown in use over the past 10 years, assesses whether a program is designed in such a way that it can achieve its intended outcomes. This article describes a particular type of program theory evaluation-logic analysis-that allows us to test the plausibility of a program's theory using scientific knowledge. Logic analysis is useful for improving the intervent...

Evaluation of the implementation of centralized waiting lists for patients without a family physician and their effects across the province of Quebec

BACKGROUND Most national and provincial commissions on healthcare services in Canada over the past decade have recommended that primary care services be strengthened in order to guarantee each citizen access to a family physician. Despite these recommendations, finding a family physician continues to be problematic. The issue of enrollment with a family physician is worrying in Canada, where ne...

The Effectiveness of the Implementation of the Feedback Process after the Biochemistry Lesson with an Evaluation Approach for Learning