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The Methods and Tools of Improvement Science
Author(s) -
Lemire Sebastian,
Christie Christina A.,
Inkelas Moira
Publication year - 2017
Publication title -
new directions for evaluation
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.374
H-Index - 40
eISSN - 1534-875X
pISSN - 1097-6736
DOI - 10.1002/ev.20235
Subject(s) - work (physics) , engineering ethics , foundation (evidence) , science education , sociology , field (mathematics) , computer science , management science , data science , political science , engineering , pedagogy , mechanical engineering , mathematics , pure mathematics , law
Rooted in ideas from operations research in the 1930s, improvement science bloomed in the healthcare literature during the 1990s and has since then spread rapidly across fields such as management, social work, behavioral economics, and most recently education (Lewis, [Lewis, C., 2015]). So what is thing called “improvement science”? What is the intellectual foundation of improvement science? And what does it look like in real‐world applications? What, if anything, might we, as evaluators, learn from the techniques and tools of improvement science? These are questions that will be addressed in this chapter.