Evaluation flash cards: embedding evaluative thinking in organizational culture

Evaluation is activity. Evaluative thinking is a way of doing business. Evaluative thinking is systematic results-oriented thinking about: · What results are expected, · How results can be achieved, · What evidence is needed to inform future actions and judgments, and · How results can be improved in the future. Evaluative thinking becomes most meaningful when it is embedded in an organization’s culture. This means that people in the organization expect to engage with each other in clarifying key concepts, differentiating means and ends, thinking in terms of outcomes, examining the quality of evidence available about effectiveness, and supporting their opinions and judgments with evidence.