Evaluation Café 2021-22

"WALKING THE EVALUATION TIGHTROPE"

Date: September 23, 2021

Presenter: Rakesh Mohan - Director of the Office of Performative Evaluations, Idaho State Legislature

 

"TIPS AND TRICKS FOR DATA CLEANING IN EXCEL"

Date: September 29, 2021

Presenter: Miranda Lee - Project Manager at the Evaluation Center at Western Michigan University; Doctoral Candidate at the Interdisciplinary Ph.D. in Evaluation Program

 

"EVIDENCE MATTERS: TOWARDS A RENEWED GLOBAL EVALUATION AGENDA"

Date: October 6, 2021

Presenter: Sarah Farina - Founder and Principal of Broadleaf Consulting; Treasurer for the International Organization for Cooperation in Evaluation; Former President of The Canadian Evaluation Society

 

"APPLYING A FEMINIST LENS TO ENHANCE EVALUATION RIGOR"

Date: October 13, 2021

Presenter: Kirsten Zeiter - Chair, Feminist Issues in Evaluation AEA Topical Interest Group

 

"EVALUATION AND DECOLONIALITY: INTERSECTIONS AND TENSIONS"

Date: October 27, 2021

Presenter: Caitlin Mapitsa - Senior Lecturer of Monitoring and Evaluation, University of Witwatersrand, South Africa

 

"A CONVERSATION ABOUT THE EVALYOUTH GLOBAL NETWORK"

Date: November 17, 2021

Presenters: Gabriela Rentería Flores and Mark Mulobi - Chair and Co-chair of EvalYouth 

 

"EVOLVING EVALUATION FOR PEOPLE AND PLANET"

Date: December 1, 2021

Presenter: Veronica Olazabal - Managing Director, Measurement, Evaluation and Organizational Performance, The Rockefeller Foundation; Adjunct Professor, Columbia University; President-elect, The American Evaluation Association

 

"ANTIBLACKNESS IS REAL, BUT ANOTHER WORLD IS POSSIBLE"

Date: January 20, 2022

Presenter: dr. monique liston, Founder of Ubuntu Evaluation

Recording

 

"COMPASSION AND CRITIQUE, CARE AND COURAGE: GENERATIVE CONFLICT AND CONSCIOUSNESS RAISING AS AN ALTERNATIVE TO “DO NO HARM” IN EVALUATION"

Date: February 2, 2022

Presenter: Aisha Rios, Ph.D., Founder and Learning & Change Strategist at Coactive Change and Vidhya Shanker, Ph.D., Co-chair of the American Evaluation Association's DEI Working Group

Recording

 

"WHY R IS MAGIC"

Date: February 9, 2022

Presenter: David Keyes, Founder and CEO of R for the Rest of Us

Recording

 

"NEW AND EMERGENT DIRECTIONS IN UTILIZATION-FOCUSED EVALUATION"

Date: February 16, 2022

Presenter: Michael Quinn Patton, Ph.D., Founder & Director, Utilization-Focused Evaluation and Charmagne E, Campbell, Ph.D., Director of Organizational Learning and Evaluation

Recording

 

"DEFINITIONAL PROBLEMS IN THE FIELD OF EVALUATION: EVALUATION, RESEARCH, RESEARCH ON EVALUATION, AND MORE"

Date: February 23, 2022

Presenter: Dana Wanzer, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Psychology in Evaluation, University of Wisconsin-Stout

Recording

 

"ASSESSMENT FOR LIBERATION: FROM THEORY TO PRACTICE"

Date: March 16, 2022

Presenter: David Sul, Ed.D., Owner and Principal, Sul & Associates International

Recording

 

"ONE CAREER PATH WITH AN EXAMPLE OF WHAT IT’S LIKE TO DO EVALUATION IN PRACTICE"

Date: March 23, 2022

Presenter: Laura R. Peck, Ph.D., Principal Scientist Abt Associates, Social & Economic Policy Division 

Recording

 

"A DISCUSSION WITH CHARI SMITH ON FOSTERING EVALUATION ORGANIZATIONAL CULTURES"

Date: March 30, 2022

Presenter: Chari Smith, President and Founder of Evaluation Into Action 

Recording

 

"APPLYING THE AEA EVALUATOR COMPETENCIES TO IMPROVE EVALUATION TRAINING PROGRAMS"

Date: April 6, 2022

Presenter: Minji Choi, Doctoral student in the Evaluation and Applied Research Methods program at Claremont Graduate University

Recording

 

"TRENDS IN DIGITAL APPROACHES TO MERL" 

Date: April 13, 2022

Presenter: Linda Raftree, Independent Consultant and Founder of MERL Tech

Recording

 

"DISTANCING, MINIMIZING AND (WILLFUL) IGNORANCE: HOW WHITE MEN MAINTAIN INEQUITY WHILE BELIEVING THEY ARE WORKING FOR CHANGE"

Date: April 20, 2022

Presenter: Melissa Dancy, Ph.D., Principal Research Associate in The Evaluation Center at Western Michigan University

Recording