Visualize it: Michael Quinn Patton’s Principles for Facilitating Evaluation

As evaluators, we know that learning from evaluation occurs when the process is rooted in partnership and is accommodating to different learning styles. That’s why Michael Quinn Patton (Founder and CEO of Utilization-Focused Evaluation) and I collaborated to share key findings from Michael’s recently published book, Facilitating Evaluation, in a creative and engaging way. In his book, Michael outlines five principles for facilitating evaluation:

1. Be guided by the personal factor
2. Engage through options
3. Observe, interpret, adapt
4. Embed evaluative thinking throughout
5. Facilitate to the leading edge

• For auditory learners, tune into this MQPodcast which includes a conversation between Michael and me about Michael’s reflections on the book.
• For tactile learners, take a look at some of the experiential learning techniques Michael describes in his book (some of which are included in the visuals below).
• For visual learners, take a look at the visuals I created that detail the five principles of facilitating evaluation that Michael outlines in his book below: