The Evaluation Center at Western Michigan University maintains a directory of past Evaluation Cafe presentations for instructional purposes.
"The rhetoric and reality of evaluation in Portugal"
Date: Oct. 5, 2004
Presenter: Dr. Irene Figueiredo, Instituto Politécnico do Porto, Portugal
"Centre for the creation of people’s image: An idea in progress"
Date: Dec. 14, 2004
Presenter: Claudius Ceccon, CEO, Centre for the Creation of People’s Image, Rio de Janiero, Brazil
"Curriculum evaluation: Criteria development for the evaluation of the Greek curriculum in primary education"
Date: Jan. 6, 2005
Presenter: Vangelis Krikas, doctoral candidate in curriculum evaluation, University of Crete, Greece
"Evaluating research: A structured set of questions that address validity and credibility of research"
Date: Jan. 12, 2005
Presenter: Dr. Gary Miron, chief of staff, The Evaluation Center, WMU
"Developing guidelines for diversity education"
Date: Jan. 18, 2005
Presenter: Dr. Carolyn Sullins, senior research associate, The Evaluation Center, WMU
"Human subjects institutional review board guidelines for research and evaluation"
Date: Feb. 4, 2005
Presenter: Victoria Janson, research compliance coordinator, Office of the Vice President for Research, WMU
"The tale of a mentored internship program in evaluation"
Date: Feb. 23, 2005
Presenters: Dr. Arlen Gullickson, director, The Evaluation Center; and Joan Farland, project specialist, The Evaluation Center, WMU
"Girls in the Wild Program"
Date: March 11, 2005
Guests: Dawn Wood and Gina Thomas, co-directors, Girls in the Wild program at the Adventure Center at Pretty Lake
"Evaluation of a formal language test for school-age children"
Date: March 18, 2005
Presenters: Dr. Nickola Wolf Nelson, professor and director of the interdisciplinary health studies doctoral program; Barbara Johnson and Michele Anderson, doctoral associates in the interdisciplinary health studies doctoral program, WMU
"Hosted Survey™: An introduction"
Date: March 29, 2005
Presenter: Daniela C. Schroeter, student in the interdisciplinary Ph.D in evaluation program, WMU
"Putting evaluation to work for foundation"
Date: April 8, 2005
Presenter: Dr. Jana Kay Slater, senior research scientist, Public Health Institute, Oakland, CA