The Evaluation Center Mission Statement

The Evaluation Center's mission is to advance the theory, practice, and utilization of evaluation. The Center's principal activities are research, development, dissemination, service, instruction, and national and international leadership in evaluation.

Dr. Stephen Magura, Director      


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Special Announcements

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Events

New!The next Evaluation Café will be held on Tuesday, November 24 at noon.  Stephen Magura – Director, The Evaluation Center, WMU; Awgu Ezechewcu – Doctoral student, Interdisciplinary Ph.D. in Evaluation Program, WMU will present "Clients' Perceptions of Buprenorphine Versus Methadone Maintenance Treatments"

New!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

New!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

New!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

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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