The Evaluation Center at Western Michigan University maintains a directory of past Evaluation Cafe presentations for instructional purposes.
"The latest battle in the war over research designs for establishing causation"
Date: Sept. 19, 2006
Presenter: Michael Scriven, professor of philosophy, associate director of The Evaluation Center, and director of the interdisciplinary Ph.D. in evaluation program, WMU.
"Ten things evaluation needs: An evaluation needs assessment"
Date: Sept. 26, 2006
Presenter: James Sanders, professor emeritus of educational studies and former associate director of The Evaluation Center, WMU
"American Evaluation Association conference preview"
Date: Oct. 3, 2006
Presenters: Amy Gullickson and Wes Martz, students in the interdisciplinary Ph.D. evaluation program, and Michael Scriven, professor of philosophy, associate director of The Evaluation Center, and director of the interdisciplinary Ph.D. in evaluation program, WMU
"How to plan and start a consulting business"
Date: Oct. 10, 2006
Presenter: Wes Martz, vice president of corporate marketing, Kadant Johnson, Three Rivers, Michigan; founder, Martz Marketing Group, Kalamazoo, Michigan; and student in the interdisciplinary Ph.D. in evaluation program, WMU.
"New directions in K-12 mathematics curriculum evaluation?"
Date: Oct.17, 2006
Presenter: Steven Ziebarth, professor of mathematics, WMU
"A review of the history and current practice of aid evaluation"
Date: Oct. 24, 2006
Presenter: Ryoh Sasaki, student in the interdisciplinary Ph.D. in evaluation program, WMU
"Evaluating poverty interventions in Albania, Nepal, and Thailand: The summer, 2006, Heifer impact study"
Date: Nov. 7, 2006
Presenter: Thomaz Chianca, student in the interdisciplinary evaluation Ph.D. program, WMU.
"How well did WMU’s graduate program review meet the government auditing standards?"
Date: Nov. 14, 2006
Presenter: Daniel Stufflebeam, Distinguished University Professor and former director of The Evaluation Center, WMU
"Demonstrating value through learning analytics"
Date: Nov. 21, 2006
Presenters: Jeffrey Berk, vice president of products and strategy; and Susan Johnston, account manager, KnowledgeAdvisors, Chicago
"Evaluation in Kalamazoo"
Date: Nov. 28, 2006
Presenters: Denise Hartsough, director of community investment; Suprotik Stotz-Ghosh, associate director of community investment; and Ronda Webber, community investment associate, Greater Kalamazoo United Way
"Exploring cost analysis: A case study illustrating how different assumptions influence evaluative conclusions"
Date: Dec. 5, 2006
Presenter: Nadini Persaud, student in the interdisciplinary Ph.D. in evaluation program, WMU
"I think ... therefore I need funding: Or, what can evaluation offer in terms of allocating, apportioning, and distributing federal research funds"
Date: Jan. 16, 2007
Presenter: Chris Coryn, student in the interdisciplinary Ph.D. in evaluation program and research associate, The Evaluation Center, WMU
"The mysteries of educational technology and its evaluation"
Date: Jan. 23, 2007
Presenter: Michael Scriven, professor of philosophy and associate director of The Evaluation Center, and director of the interdisciplinary Ph.D. in evaluation program, WMU
"The newest issue in aid evaluation"
Date: Jan. 30, 2007
Presenter: Ryoh Sasaki, student in the interdisciplinary Ph.D. in evaluation program, WMU
"Evaluations in the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services"
Date: Feb. 6, 2007
Presenter: Ann Maxwell, regional inspector general, Office of Inspector General, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Chicago
"Using system dynamics to extend evaluation: A case example from HIV prevention"
Date: Feb.13, 2007
Presenter: Robin Miller, associate professor of psychology, Michigan State University, and editor, American Journal of Evaluation
"Challenges to personnel evaluations: People evaluating people"
Date: Feb. 20, 2007
Presenter: Fred Brown, president, Quantum Services Inc., Grand Rapids, MI
"Evaluability assessment from 1986-2006: A review of literature"
Date: Feb. 27, 2007
Presenter: Mike Trevisan, professor and director, Assessment and Evaluation Center, Washington State University; and Visiting Scholar, The Evaluation Center, WMU
"Legislative program evaluation in the American States"
Date: March 13, 2007
Presenter: John Risley, student in the interdisciplinary evaluation Ph.D. program and research associate, College of Health and Human Services, WMU.
"What are we? Chopped liver? Or why it matters if the comparisons are active, and what to do"
Date: March 20, 2007
Presenter: Lois-ellin Datta, president, Datta Analysis, Captain Cook, Hawaii
"March madness and methods: A case study of evaluating tsunami awareness and prepared"
Date: March 27, 2007
Presenter: Liesel Ritchie, senior research associate, The Evaluation Center, WMU
"Evidenced-based community interventions: International and cross-cultural considerations"
Date: April 3, 200
Presenter: Mozdeh Bruss, associate professor in the Department of Family and Consumer Sciences, WMU
"Evaluating motives"
Date: April 16, 2007
Presenter: Gene Glass, Regents’ Professor of Educational Leadership and Policy Studies, Arizona State University
"Yes, when will we ever learn? Strategies for causal attribution in evaluation"
Date: April 24, 2007
Presenter: Patricia Rogers, associate professor in public sector evaluation, and director of the Collaborative Institute for Research, Consulting and Learning in Evaluation, Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology, Australia