C. The Questions of this Study: To employ the 4-D Appreciate Inquiry approach in this study the evaluator chose nine questions to illuminate the four phases of the model. Some of the projects answered some of the questions in combination with the other questions, which appears in the interview section as fewer (or shorter) responses. However, sufficient data was provided to assess each of the phases for each of the projects. There were times when the respondents gave answers that moved between and combined the different phases of the model. This was not a significant concern or threat to the analysis. To deal with this issue, the evaluator selected the concepts, phrases, and words from the interview that most closely fitted a particular phase of the model and inserted them into that phase during the analysis. The average time the project staff spent answering the questions was approximately 1 hour and 30 minutes: Question
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Discovery 1. (a). How did this project come about? (Community need/Organizational (b). Why was it necessary? and Cultural Probe) 2. To accomplish your work, how does your project draw upon the best of what has been or is in your organization and community? 3. (a). Why did you get involved and what makes you stay? (b). What is important about what you do and what do love most about the work? 4. When your organization has been operating at its best what have been the best, most inspiring, and creative moments and accomplishments of your project?
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Discovery (Positive Core Probe of the Organization and Community) Discovery (Positive Core Probe of the Organizational and Staff) Discovery Exploring Life Giving Forces (LGFs) of the Organization
