Special Announcements
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Events
Please monitor this space for announcement of the fall 2009 schedule of Evaluation Café events.
Notices
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.
We would like to welcome Dr. Daniela Schröter to the Evaluation Center as the new Director of Research.
The eleventh issue of the Journal of MultiDisciplinary Evaluation is now online.
The Evaluation Center's 2007-08 Annual Report is now available online [PDF 8652 KB]
P. Cristian Gugiu, an IDPE student, has received a WMU Graduate College Gwen Frostic Doctoral Fellowship to support his dissertation titled "Summative Confidence."
Chris L. S. Coryn, director of the Interdisciplinary Ph.D. in Evaluation, is the recipient of the American Evaluation Association's 2008 Marcia Guttentag Award, which is presented to a promising new evaluator during the first five years after completion of his or her Masters or Doctoral degree and whose work is consistent with the AEA Guiding Principles for Evaluators.
Customized Employment Supports (CES), developed to help addiction treatment patients attain rapid placement in paid jobs and increase their legitimate earnings, which was evaluated by Dr. Stephen Magura and colleagues, has been listed in the National Register of Evidence-Based Programs and Practices (NREPP). online summary available
Publications
Coryn, C. L. S., Schröter, D. C., & Hanssen, C. E. (2009). A modification of the Success Case Method for strengthening causal inferences from single group studies. American Journal of Evaluation, 30(1), pp. 80-92.
The Oral History Project Team (Miller, R. L., Coryn, C. L. S., & Schröter, D. C.). (2008). The oral history of evaluation: The professional development of Daniel L. Stufflebeam. American Journal of Evaluation, 29(4), 555-571.
Dewey, J. D., Montrosse, B. E., Schröter, D. C., Sullins, C. D., & Mattox, J. R. (2008). Evaluator competencies: What's taught versus what's sought. American Journal of Evaluation, 29(3), pp. 268-287.
Magura S, Lee JD, Hershberger J , Joseph H, Marsch L, Shropshire C, Rosenblum A. have published Buprenorphine and methadone maintenance in jail and post-release: A randomized clinical trial. Drug and Alcohol Dependence 99 (1-3):222-230.
Stephen Magura has published Effectiveness of Dual Focus Mutual Aid for Co-Occurring Substance Use and Mental Health Disorders: A Review and Synthesis of the "Double Trouble" in Recovery Evaluation. more information
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