September 2018
Intermediate to advanced
326 pages
11h 8m
English
In developing nearly any intervention, informal evaluation and reflection takes place throughout the development process. This chapter is concerned with the evaluation in design research that drives intervention development while at the same time seeking to inform an external scientific community of the results and their possible utility for others. This kind of evaluation is conscious, systematic, and formalized. Here, the term ‘evaluation’ is used in a broad sense to refer to any kind of data collection to gain insight into an intervention that has been mapped out (a design) or constructed (a prototype). Reflection pertains to retrospective consideration of the findings of evaluative activities.
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