The Evaluation Café


Join us next week for…

Rawlsian Political Analysis and its Links with Evaluation with Dr. Paul Clements

Tuesday, February 14, 2012, Ellsworth 4410, Noon-1pm

Check out the Spring 2012 Evaluation Café schedule: Upcoming Eval Café Events

New Article by Dr. Chris Coryn and Stephanie Evergreen


Cook, T. D., Scriven, M., Coryn, C. L. S., & Evergreen, S. D. H. (2010). Contemporary thinking about causation in evaluation: A dialogue with Tom Cook and Michael Scriven. American Journal of Evaluation, 31(1). “In this dialogue, two of the field’s leading theorists and methodologists, Thomas D. Cook and Michael Scriven, described their current thinking and views about causation and causal inference in evaluation.”

The Evaluation Café


Recordings of past presentations are now available on a web library here. Search by year, topic, or speaker. Recordings are usually made available within one week of the original presentation. 

The Evaluation Café


The Evaluation Café is a weekly series presented throughout the academic year, which features guest speakers on a wide range of evaluation topics. It has been taking place at The Evaluation Center since the early 1980s and has been a platform for those new to the evaluation field as well as the evaluation field’s experts.

New Article by Dr. Stephen Magura


Validating reports of illegal drug use to evaluate national drug control policy. Evaluation and Program Planning 33 234 – 237, 2010.  “This paper critiques a major validity study of self-reported illicit drug use among youth commissioned by the federal government, showing that the favorable conclusions and summaries offered for public consumption are not warranted.”

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– Dr. Stephen Magura, Director

KPS Title I Jail Program


Sponsor: Kalamazoo Public Schools
Principal Investigator: Dr. Chris Coryn
Co-Principal Investigator: Kelly Robertson
May 10, 2010 – June 3, 2011

The purpose of this evaluation is to assess the impact of the Title I Part D funded supplemental educational services on Jail residents’ high school diploma and GED attainment and to learn how the services can be improved. These services have not yet been evaluated comprehensively. The rationale for conducting the evaluation is to partially address Title I Part D funding requirements, as well as to determine the impact and learn how to improve the services. Further, this evaluation is needed since research on similar services has yielded variable findings and most has been conducted with prison offenders. We hope the findings of this evaluation will help improve the services in the future and increase the number of Jail residents who receive a high school diploma or GED, which is thought to lead to reduced recidivism and increased post-incarceration education and employment

KPS Title I Juvenile Program


Conducting a community-based participatory evaluation

KPS Title I Behavioral Program


Conducting a community-based participatory evaluation
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