Articles
Using Principles to Guide Evaluation Theory and Practice, a chapter by Michael Quinn Patton and Charmagne E. Campbell-Patton in the Research Handbook on Program Evaluation (2024)
Evaluating Transformation Means Transforming Evaluation a chapter by Michael Quinn Patton in Sustainability Transformations, Social Transitions and Environmental Accountabilities, Part of the Palgrave Studies in Environmental Transformation, Transition and Accountability book series (PSETTA)
How Far Dare an Evaluator Go Toward Saving the World?: Redux, Update, and a Reflective Practice Facilitation Tool by Michael Quinn Patton, American Journal of Evaluation, May 2021
Leading Social Transformations: Creating Public Value and Advancing the Common Good by John M. Bryson, Bill Barberg, Barbara C. Crosby & Michael Quinn Patton, Journal of Change Management, May 2021
Evaluation Criteria for Evaluating Transformation: Implications for the Coronavirus Pandemic and the Global Climate Emergency by Michael Quinn Patton, American Journal of Evaluation, November 2020
Evaluation Use Theory, Practice, and Future Research: Reflections on the Alkin and King AJE Series by Michael Quinn Patton, American Journal of Evaluation, September 2020
Expanding Futuring Foresight through Evaluative Thinking by Michael Quinn Patton, American Journal of Evaluation Vol 11, Issue 4, 2019
Fools’ Gold: The Widely Touted Methodological “Gold Standard” Is Neither Golden Nor a Standard - excerpt from Qualitative Research & Evaluation Methods by Michael Quinn Patton, 2015, Sage Publications, Pages 93-95.
The Paradigms Debate and a Utilization-Focused Synthesis, Chapter 12 from Utilization-Focused Evaluation, 4th Ed by Michael Quinn Patton, Sage Publications, Page 419-469.
Expanding Futuring Foresight through Evaluative Thinking, by Michael Quinn Patton, World Futures Review, July 2019
Evaluation Science, by Michael Quinn Patton, American Journal of Evaluation , 2018, Vol. 39(2) 183-200
A Historical Perspective on the Evolution of Evaluative Thinking, by Michael Quinn Patton, New Directions in Evaluation, Summer 2018
Pedagogical Principles of Evaluation: Interpreting Freire, by Michael Quinn Patton, New Directions in Evaluation, September 2017
From evangelist to utilization-focused evaluator, by Michael Quinn Patton, 2016. Published in D. D. Williams (Ed.), Seven North American evaluation pioneers. New Directions for Evaluation , 150 , 69– 76.
Book Review: Peace Education Evaluation: Learning from experience and exploring prospects, by Charmagne Campbell-Patton, American Journal of Evaluation, April 2016
Book Review: Cherry Street Alley, by Michael Quinn Patton, American Journal of Evaluation, April 2016
What is Essential in Developmental Evaluation? On Integrity, Fidelity, Adultery, Abstinence, Impotence, Long-Term Commitment, Integrity, and Sensitivity in Implementing Evaluation Models, by Michael Quinn Patton, American Journal of Evaluation, March 2016
A Foundation's Theory of Philanthropy: What It Is, What It Provides, How to Do It, by James Radner, Nathaniel Foote, and Michael Quinn Patton, The Foundation Review, December 2015
The Theory of Philanthropy of the Alberta Family Wellness Initiative, by James Radner, Nathaniel Foote, and Michael Quinn Patton, The Foundation Review, December 2015
Evaluating the Complex, by Michael Quinn Patton - Book Review in the American Journal of Evaluation, March 2015
Michael Quinn Patton's Top 10 Developments in Qualitative Evaluation for the Last Decade, Non-Profit Quarterly, February 2014
Brain Sciences and Evaluation, American Journal of Evaluation, 2014, Vol. 35(2) 237-244
Strategy as the Focus of Evaluation - New Directions for Evaluation, Vol. 128, 2010.
The Oral History of Evaluation, Part 5 – American Journal of Evaluation, Vol. 28 No. 1, March 2007 102-114A
Evaluation for the Way We Work, Non-Profit Quarterly, 2006
Distant Echo of a Strong Voice: Reflections on Margaret Mead’s Evaluation of the Salzburg Seminar, Michael Quinn Patton, American Journal of Evaluation, Vol. 24, No. 1, 2003.
World Larger Than Formative and Summative, from Evaluation Practice Vol. 17, No. 2, 1996