Publications and activities

The center's staff are engaged in publishing and presenting their research and work as well as leading training sessions for global audiences in pursuit of our mission to advance the theory, practice and utilization of evaluation.

Listed below are the publications and activities by center staff, many of which also feature interdisciplinary evaluation doctoral students.  

Customized Employment supports (CES)

Manual 

Fidelity

Weekly

Outcomes

 

2020

Blogs

Publications

Webinars

  • BECHO, L. W., & Lesiecki, M. (2020, May). Adapting evaluations in the era of social distancing. 

Workshops

  • BECHO, L. W., Harnar, M. A., & ROBERTSON, K. (2020, January 17). Values manifesto. West Michigan Evaluation Network, Grand Rapids, MI.
  • GABRIEL, B. (2020, January). Excel advanced. Professional Support Staff Organization, WMU.

2019

Blogs

Presentations

  • BECHO, L. W. (2019, November). Expanding the idea of evaluation theory. American Evaluation Association, Minneapolis, MN.
  • BECHO, L. W., & LEEBURG, E. (2019, July). Evaluation: The secret sauce to your ATE proposal. High Impact Technology Exchange, St. Louis, MO.
  • BECHO, L. W., & ROBERTSON, K. (2019, November). Quick reference guides evaluators can’t live without. American Evaluation Association, Minneapolis, MN.
  • Bower, R., Roberts, R., Manupelli, A., Slowinski, M., Barger, M., Lesiecki, M., & LEEBURG, E. (2019, July). Get the word out: Outreach tips and tricks from the ATE community. High Impact Technology Exchange Conference, St. Louis, MO.
  • LEEBURG, E. (2019, October). Community-driven solutions to ATE evaluation challenges. Advanced Technological Education Principal Investigators Conference, Washington, DC. MAGURA, S. (2019, November). Description and Utilization of Web-based Evidence based Program Registers for Behavioral Healthcare. American Evaluation Association Annual Conference, Minneapolis, MN.
  • MAGURA S., LEE M. J., & ABU-OBAID R., & DeCamp W. (2019, November 15). Innovation in Dissemination of Evaluation Results. American Evaluation Association Annual Conference, Minneapolis, MN.
  • ROBERTSON, K., & WINGATE, L. A. (2019, November). Evaluation blogging: What’s in it for me? American Evaluation Association, Minneapolis, MN.
  • Valuy, E., & BECHO, L. W. (2019, November). Changing horses in midstream: How to revise longitudinal surveys? American Evaluation Association, Minneapolis, MN.
  • WATTS, B., & WINGATE, L. A. (2019, November). The future of the Program Evaluation Standards: Increasing relevance and accessibility. American Evaluation Association, Minneapolis, MN.
  • WINGATE, L. A. (2019, October). Getting started with Advanced Technological Education evaluation. Advanced Technological Education Principal Investigators, Washington, DC.

Publications

  • Coryn, C.L.S., Becho, L.W., Westine, C.D., Mateu, P.F., Abu-Obaid, R.N., Hobson, K.A., Schroeter, D.C., Dodds, E.L., Vo, A.T., & Ramlow, M. (2019). Material Incentives and Other Potential Factors Associated With Response Rates to Internet Surveys of American Evaluation Association Members: Findings From a Randomized Experiment. American Journal of Evaluation. https://doi.org/10.1177/1098214018818371
  • Hobson, K.A., Coryn, C.L.S., Fierro, L.A., & Sherwood-Laughlin, C.M. (2019). Instruction of evaluation competencies in Council on Education for Public Health (CEPH)-accredited Master of Public Health (MPH) degree programs. American Journal of Evaluation [currently available through Online First]. 

Webinars

  • BECHO, L. W., & Lesiecki, M. (2019, December). Impact evaluation: What, why, and how.
  • BECHO, L. W., Lesiecki, M., & LEEBURG, E. (2019, August). Evaluation: The secret sauce in your ATE proposal. 

Workshops

  • BECHO, L. W. (2019, October). Impact evaluation: The why, what, and how.  Advanced Technological Education Principal Investigators Conference, Washington, D.C.
  • GABRIEL, B. (2019, December). Excel basics. Professional Support Staff Organization, WMU
  • LEEBURG, E., & ROBERTSON, K. (2019, October). ATE PI survival guide: surviving and thriving in the ATE program. Advanced Technological Education Principal Investigators Conference, Washington, DC.

2018

Kates, A.W., Huang, W., & Coryn, C.L.S. (2018). The effects of mobile phone use on academic performance: A meta-analysis. Computers & Education, 127, 107-112.

MacDonald, G., Wingate, L. A., & Cookson, S. (2018). Monitoring and evaluation. In D. Townes (Ed.), Health in humanitarian emergencies: Principles and practice for public health and healthcare practitioners. New York, NY: Cambridge University Press. 

Wingate, L.A., Smith, N. L., & Perk, E. (2018). The project vita: A simple, but powerful tool for project accountability, evaluation, and management. Evaluation and Program Planning, 71, 22-27.