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      


   What's New Past "What's New" Items   

Special Announcements

New!Daniela C. Schroeter, IDPE student, recently published Training Competencies Through Internet Supported Cooperative Learning.  more information

New!Dr. Chris L. S. Coryn recently published his first book, titled Models for Evaluating Scientific Research.  more information

We are continuing to  update our Web site.  If we miss a page, or if a link does not work, please  .

Events

New!The Evaluation Center is pleased to announce a special  Evaluation Cafe event on Tuesday, July 1, 2008 at noon.  Oded Löwenbein  —  Professor of Business and Quantitative Methods, Fachhochschule Bonn-Rhein-Sieg, Fachbereich Wirtschaft Rheinbach will present "The Evaluation Market in Germany"

Streaming videos of past Evaluation Café events are now available for viewing in your Web browser. Catch up on any you have missed by clicking the "Watch the Video" links located beneath the event photos on our past events pages which are linked from the EvalCafé  home page.

Notices

New!The  third working paper of the  Kalamazoo Promise evaluation project is now online.

Double Trouble in Recovery (DTR), a mutual aid fellowship for people in recovery from both addiction and mental illness, which was evaluated by  Dr. Stephen Magura and colleagues, has been listed in the National Register of Evidence-Based Programs and Practices (NREPP):  more information

Dr. Gary Miron, and other top scholars in the field of evaluation, recently published School Choice:  Evidence and Recommendations, a comprehensive collection of 10 policy briefs under the umbrella of choice.  more information

The  ninth issue of the Journal of MultiDisciplinary Evaluation  is now online.

Dr. Chris Coryn, two IDPE students, and former IDPE director  E. Jane Davidson, recently published a paper in the Evaluation Journal of Australasia [Coryn, C. L. S., Gugiu, P. C., Davidson, E. J., & Schröter, D. C. (2008). Needs assessment in hidden populations using respondent-driven sampling. Evaluation Journal of Australasia, 7(2), 3-11.].
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