Special Announcements
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Events
 The next Evaluation Café will be held on Wednesday, January 27 at noon. Jim Anthony – Professor of Epidemiology, Michigan State University will present "An Epidemiologist's Perspective on Some Evaluation Research Issues"
 Evalua|t|e, an evaluation resource center, will host a workshop on Evaluating Professional Development Impact. Register for this important workshop, to be held February 4-5, 2010, in Tempe, Arizona.
Notices
The Evaluation Center's 2008-09 Annual Report is now online.
Stephen Magura, Andrew Rosenblum and Thomas Betzler have published "Substance Use and Mental Health Outcomes for Comorbid Patients in Psychiatric Day Treatment" in Substance Abuse: Research and Treatment, 2009:3 71–78. more information
Service Outreach and Recovery (SOAR), a substance abuse intervention program for indigent and homeless clients, developed and evaluated by Dr. Stephen Magura and colleagues, has been listed in the National Register of Evidence-Based Programs and Practices (NREPP)
Evaluation Center Study on Grand Rapids Teens in the News. more information
The twelfth issue of the Journal of MultiDisciplinary Evaluation is now online.
Congratulations to Mary Ramlow, Evaluation Center Office Coordinator, named as one of four semiannual winners who will receive the WMU 2009 Staff Service Excellence Award. The winners will be honored at a luncheon in their honor on Thursday, July 16.
Publications
Gugiu, P. C., Coryn, C. L. S., Clark, R., & Kuehn, A. (2009). Development and evaluation of the short-version of the Patient Assessment of Chronic Illness Care (PACIC) instrument. Chronic Illness, 5(4).
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).
Evergreen, S. D. H. (2009). A practical guide to program evaluation planning [Review of the book A practical guide to program evaluation planning]. American Journal of Evaluation, 30(4), 607-609.
Coryn, C. L. S., Spybrook, J. K., Evergreen, S. D. H., & Blinkiewicz, M. V. (2009). Development and evaluation of the Social-Emotional Learning Scale. Journal of Psychoeducational Assessment, 27(4), 283-295.
Coryn, C. L. S. (2009). The psychology of goals [Review of the book The psychology of goals]. The Journal of Social Psychology, 149(4), 541-544.
Coryn, C. L. S., Schröter, D. C., & Hanssen, C. E. (2009). Adding a time-series design element to the Success Case Method to improve methodological rigor: An application for non-profit program evaluation. American Journal of Evaluation, 30(1), pp. 80-92.
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