The bargraphs of evaluation approaches

library(tidyverse)

Data from the petals in:

Schröter, D., Becho, L. W., & Montrosse-Moorhead, B. (2026). The garden of evaluation approaches: Supporting explicit, theory-informed evaluation practice. Evaluation.

dat <- read.csv(text = "Approach    Values  Valuing Activism for social justice Context Promoting use   Engagment breadth   Engagement depth    Power dynamics in making evaluation decisions
ISE4GEMs    3   3   3   3   3   3   3   3
Made in Africa Evaluation   3   2   3   3   2   3   3   3
Nation to Nation Evaluation 3   1   3   3   2   3   3   3
Sistematización de Experiencias 3   1   3   2   3   3   3   3
Transformative Participatory Evaluation 3   0   3   3   3   3   3   3
Fourth Generation Evaluation    3   3   1   2   2   3   3   3
Most Significant Change 3   3   0   3   3   2   2   2
Outcomes Harvesting 2   2   1   3   3   2   3   2
Success Case Method 3   2   0   3   3   1   2   2
Adaptive Evaluation 2   2   1   3   3   1   2   1
Practical Participatory Evaluation  2   0   1   3   3   1   3   2
Theory-Driven Evaluation    2   1   1   2   2   2   2   2
Realist Evaluation  1   1   1   3   2   2   2   1", sep = "\t", check.names = FALSE)

dat

dat_long <- pivot_longer(dat, cols = 2:9, names_to = "Dimension") |>
  arrange(desc(Approach)) |>
  mutate(Approach = fct_inorder(Approach))

ggplot(dat_long, aes(x = Approach, y = value, fill = Approach)) +
  geom_col() +
  facet_wrap(~ Dimension, ncol = 2) +
  labs(
    x = NULL,
    y = "Rating",
    title = "The bargraphs of evaluation approaches"
  ) +
  theme_minimal() +
  theme(panel.grid = element_blank(),
        legend.position = "none",
        axis.line = element_line()) +
  coord_flip()