The Evaluation Center at Western Michigan University maintains a directory of past Evaluation Cafe presentations for instructional purposes.
"The new metaevaluation standards: Metaevaluation joins utility, feasibility, propriety and accuracy among the program evaluation standards"
Date: Sept. 16, 2008
Presenter: Lori Wingate, project manager for The Evaluation Center, WMU
"Managing the values of the key stakeholders in a health care setting"
Date: Sept. 23, 2008
Presenter: Ezechukwu Awgu, student in the interdisciplinary Ph.D. in evaluation program, WMU
"The student evaluation standards"
Date: Sept. 30, 2008
Presenter: Arlen Gullickson, researcher emeritus, The Evaluation Center, WMU
"Assessment for learning"
Date: Oct. 7, 2008
Presenter: Steven Ziebarth, associate professor of mathematics, WMU
"Benchmarking to improve student evaluation practices"
Date: Oct. 14, 2008
Presenters: Katharine Cummings, associate dean of the College of Education, WMU; and Lindsay Noakes and Emily Rusieki, students in the interdisciplinary Ph.D. in evaluation program, WMU
"Contemporary thinking about causation in education evaluation: A dialogue with Tom Cook and Michael Scriven"
Date: Oct. 24, 2008
Presenters: Tom Cook, professor of sociology, psychology, education, and social policy, Northwestern University’s Institute for Policy Research, and Michael Scriven, Distinguished Professor at the School of Organizational and Behavioral Sciences, Claremont Graduate University
"Needs assessment with youth participants"
Date: Oct. 28, 2008
Presenter: Brandy Pratti, student in the interdisciplinary Ph.D. in evaluation program, WMU
"Evaluation, organizational change, and evaluation capacity building at the Federal Railroad Administration"
Date: Nov. 11, 2008
Presenter: Jonny Morell, TechTeam Government Solutions Inc.
"Better strategies for great results: Using logic models for quality improvement in planning, managing, and evaluation"
Date: Nov. 18 , 2008
Presenters: Dr. Cynthia Phillips and Dr. Lisa Wyatt Knowlton, Phillips Wyatt Knowlton Inc.
"Methodological challenges of collecting evaluation data from traumatized clients and consumers"
Date: Nov. 25, 2008
Presenter: Rebecca Campbell, Michigan State University
"Validating self-reports of illegal drug use to evaluate national drug control policy: Taking the data for a spin"
Date: Dec. 2, 2008
Presenter: Stephen Magura, director of The Evaluation Center, WMU
"HSIRB, evaluation and you"
Date: Jan. 20, 2009
Presenter: Vicki Janson, research compliance coordinator, Office of the Vice President for Research, WMU
"The politics of evaluation local reform: Caught in the crosshairs of conflicting stakeholder ideologies"
Date: Jan. 27, 2009
Presenter: Nancy Mansberger, associate professor in the Department of Teaching, Learning, and Leadership, WMU
"Cultural competence in research and evaluation: The Kalamazoo wraps study"
Date: Feb. 3, 2009
Presenters: Carolyn Sullins, senior research associate, Kercher Center for Social Research, and Ladel Lewis, doctoral student in the Department of Sociology, WMU
"EvaluATE open house"
Date: Feb. 10, 2009
Presenters: Stephanie Evergreen, project manager; Arlen Gullickson, researcher emeritus; and Lori Wingate, project manager, The Evaluation Center, WMU
"The critical importance of establishing good working relationships in external evaluations"
Date: Feb. 17, 2009
Presenter: Robert Wertkin, professor of social work, WMU
"Power analysis for univariate and multivariate parametric and nonparametric study designs"
Date: Feb. 24, 2009
Presenter: Jason Davey, doctoral student in evaluation, measurement and research, WMU
"An empirical review of theory-driven evaluation practice"
Date: March 17 , 2009
Presenters: Chris Coryn, director of the interdisciplinary Ph.D. in evaluation program, WMU; Lindsay Noakes and Carl Westine, students in the interdisciplinary Ph.D. in evaluation program, WMU; and Daniela Schröter, director of research in The Evaluation Center, WMU
"A comparative study of extended meta-ethnography and meta-analysis based on the fundamental micro-purposes of a literature review"
Date: March 24, 2009
Presenter: Rhae-Ann Booker, director of pre-college programs, Calvin College
"The shape of evaluation in organizations"
Date: March 31, 2009
Presenter: Amy Gullickson, student in the interdisciplinary Ph.D. in evaluation program, WMU
"Statistical prediction models in track and field world record performances"
Date: April 7, 2009
Presenter: Yuanlong Liu, professor, Department of Health, Physical Education and Recreation, WMU
"A radical reconceptualization of the discipline of evaluation"
Date: April 14 , 2009
Presenter: Michael Scriven, professor of psychology, Claremont Graduate University
"Visible learning: A synthesis of 800 meta-analyses relating to achievement"
Date: May 4, 2009
Presenter: Dr. John Hattie, professor of education, Auckland University, New Zealand
"Local context, use and adaptation of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Evaluation framework for public health initiatives"
Date: May 5, 2009
Presenter: Dr. Janet Clinton, director of the Bachelor of Health Science in the School of Population Health, Auckland University, New Zealand.