Quantitative evidence is the "bones," qualitative evidence is the "flesh," and evaluative reasoning is the "vital organs" that bring them both to life. True "beauty" in evaluation is a clearly reasoned, well-crafted, coherent evaluation story that weaves all three of these together to unlock both truth and justice with breathtaking clarity. This chapter provides tips for delivering truly accessible, assumption-unearthing, values-explicit evaluation that clearly lays out: (a) a set of high-level explicitly evaluative questions to frame and focus the work; (b) the justice principles and other values applied in order to answer them; (c) the criteria and evidence that demonstrate performance relative to those principles and values; and (d) the evaluative reasoning used to arrive at robust conclusions about not just what has happened but how good, valuable, and important it is. © Wiley Periodicals, Inc., and the American Evaluation Association.
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Davidson, E. J. (2014). How “Beauty” can bring truth and justice to life. New Directions for Evaluation, 2014(142), 31–43. https://doi.org/10.1002/ev.20083
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