From Algorithms to Evidence: Using GenAI in Evaluation Practice (Comparative Policy Evaluation)

From Algorithms to Evidence: Using GenAI in Evaluation Practice offers a timely, practice-grounded guide for evaluators and development professionals navigating the fast-moving world of generative AI.Building on the foundations laid in Artificial Intelligence and Evaluation (2025), this volume moves decisively from theory to application.It documents how evaluators across the globe are already using GenAI in real projects, showing not only what worked, but also what failed, why, and under what conditions.The result is a clear, practitioner-centered resource that cuts through hype and provides grounded, real-world insight. Structured around the seven phases of the evaluation lifecycle (design, structuring and inception, data collection, data analysis, reporting, judgment, and utilization) the book offers concrete examples of how GenAI is being integrated into everyday evaluation tasks.Contributors explain their rationale for using AI tools, the steps they took, and the results they achie