Christina A. Christie Moira Inkelas Sebastian Lemire
While improvement science has experienced a surge of interest over the past 30 years, applications of it are rare in the evaluation literature.
This issue promotes the cross-fertilization of ideas, techniques, and tools between evaluation and improvement science. There are at least four areas where this cross-fertilization is particularly relevant: learning from error, examining variation, appreciating context, and focusing on systems change. This volume considers:
the conceptual similarities and distinctions between improvement science and evaluation;
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While improvement science has experienced a surge of interest over the past 30 years, applications of it are rare in the evaluation literature.
