The Evaluation Center at Western Michigan University maintains a directory of past Evaluation Cafe presentations for instructional purposes.
"Contemporary trends and movements in evaluation: Evidence-based, participatory and empowerment and theory-driven evaluation"
Date: Sept. 15, 2009
Presenter: Chris Coryn, director of the interdisciplinary Ph.D. in evaluation program, WMU
"RealWorld evaluation: Maximizing utility in spite of inadequate budget, time and data as well as conflicting political pressures"
Date: Sept. 24, 2009
Presenter: Jim Rugh, independent consultant
"Evaluating school mathematics, science textbooks, and classroom practice using an assessment for learning framework"
Date: Sept. 29, 2009
Presenters: Amy Bentz and Jonathan Engelman from Assessment for Learning Scholars; Steven Ziebarth, associate professor of mathematics, WMU
"(Meta)Evaluation at the International Labour Organization: Current practice, potential for improvement and prospects for in-depth study"
Date: Oct. 6, 2009
Presenters: Daniela Schroeter, director of research for The Evaluation Center; Anne Cullen, senior research associate of The Evaluation Center; and Kelly Robertson project manager of The Evaluation Center, WMU
"Exploring a utilization-focused evaluation option: Developmental evaluation using systems thinking and complex nonlinear dynamics"
Date: Oct. 15, 2009
Presenter: Michael Quinn Patton, independent organizational development and evaluation consultant
"Evaluating evidence-based medicine"
Date: Oct. 20, 2009
Presenter: Cristian Gugiu, student in the interdisciplinary Ph.D. in evaluation program, WMU
"Evaluation—A quasi-profession?"
Date: Oct. 27, 2009
Presenter: Wolfgang Beywl from Berne University/Univation Cologne
"Documenting dependency relationships among the standards to facilitate metaevaluation"
Date: Nov. 3, 2009
Presenter: Carl Westine, doctoral associate for the interdisciplinary Ph.D. in evaluation program, WMU
"Clients’ perceptions of buprenorphine versus methadone maintenance treatments"
Date: Nov. 24, 2009
Presenters: Stephen Magur, director of The Evaluation Center, WMU, and Awgu Ezechewcu, student in the interdisciplinary Ph.D. in evaluation program, WMU
"Evaluative tools for assessing quality in healthcare organizations"
Date: Dec. 1, 2009
Presenter: Stephanie Means, student in the interdisciplinary Ph.D. in evaluation program, WMU
"An epidemiologist’s perspective on some evaluation research issues"
Date: Jan. 27, 2010
Presenter: Jim Anthony, professor of epidemiology, Michigan State University
"The utility of clinical diagnostic reasoning in performance analysis"
Date: Feb. 2, 2010
Presenter: Nicholas Andreadis, acting dean of the Lee Honors College, WMU
"The direction for research at Western Michigan University"
Date: Feb. 9, 2010
Presenter: Paula Kohler, associate vice president of research, WMU
"Evaluation reports as meta-evaluation data: How much can and should written reports tell us about an evaluation’s quality?"
Date: Feb. 16, 2010
Presenter: Lori Wingate, senior research associate in The Evaluation Center, WMU
"Nonprofits and evaluation: Internal and external accountability"
Date: Feb. 23, 2010
Presenter: Bobbe Luce, director of ONEplace, Kalamazoo Public Library
"An introduction to analyzing text data with MAXQDA"
Date: March 9, 2010
Presenter: Chris Coryn, director of the interdisciplinary Ph.D. in evaluation program, WMU
"Evaluation of the 'Letter and Life' professional development program for teachers"
Date: March 16, 2010
Presenter: Adriana Bauer, visiting scholar in the interdisciplinary Ph.D. in evaluation program, WMU
"Foundation evaluation"
Date: March 23, 2010
Presenter: Teresa Behrens, editor-in-chief, The Foundation Review; and senior research associate, Community Research Institute
"Michigan Saves: Evaluability assessment and process evaluation of an innovative energy program"
Date: March 30, 201
Presenters: Daniela Schroeter, director of research; Anne Cullen, senior research associate; and Kelly Robertson, research associate, The Evaluation Center, WMU
"Models to evaluate system change in community initiatives"
Date: April 6, 2010
Presenter: Margaret Richardson, student in the interdisciplinary Ph.D. in evaluation program, WMU
"Workshop: Participatory evaluation up close"
Date: April 14, 2010
Presenter: J. Bradley Cousins, professor of educational administration, University of Ottawa
"Racism, evaluation and research"
Date: April 20, 2010
Presenters: Kelly Robertson, research associate in The Evaluation Center, WMU, and Diane Rogers, Assessment for Learning Fellow, WMU