From Evaluation Theory Tree to Theory Forest

[@SamerElHouchaimi]

While I was not aware of the terminology and the concept name, I started implementing the evaluation forest and I quote based on the "natural landscape" especially in the context of the middle east and particularly Lebanon with economic and political crises reflected on other "landscapes". I decided to let it grow organically and ended up with, as you concluded, "a new forest of evaluation made up of many different varieties of evaluation"

[@wolfgangbeywl1007]

Michael, thank you very much for this review and the many relevant references to the discussion of this book. Although I agree with many of them, I disagree with you as follows: 1 That the Theory Tree is "out of date" (18:20) , I find a judgement of an insider who does not think enough about the world view of outsiders. I am thinking especially of evaluation education - here outsiders need a first orientation, in botany we would say: an "identification book" - I don't know a more up-to-date one for this than Evaluation Roots. When they have worked out the central identification features, they can go into the forest with it and identify trees and maybe even discover a new species. 2 You say this: the evaluation theory tree has influenced all (sic!) practicing theorists to integrate valuing, methods and use in their practice. This statement certainly does not apply to German-speaking countries: recently, at a conference, following my keynote, I had a very friendly public discussion with a representative of critical rationalism who heads a department on evaluation at a major German university. That working systematically with values is an indispensable task of evaluation science is a very alien view of the world for him. I suspect he is not alone in the world in this. I sincerely hope that your "out of date" is not quoted in academic papers without the context you provide, even by ChatGPT.

[@takudzwamugadza4461]

Is the evaluation tree and the evaluation theory tree the same thing?