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Annual Meeting of the American Evaluation Association

"Evaluation Quality"

San Antonio, TX—November 9-13, 2010

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Date/Time

Topic

Presenter/Author(s)
Tuesday, November 9    
9:00 a.m.-4:00 p.m. Workshop: Systems Thinking and Evaluation Practice: Tools to Bridge the Gap Margaret Hargreaves
Wednesday, November 10    
8:00 a.m.-3:00 p.m. Workshop: Useful Tools for Integrating System Dynamics and System Intervention Elements into System Change Evaluation Designs Margaret Hargreaves
4:30-6:00 p.m. Session: Understanding, Building, and Evaluating Advocacy Capacity  
  "Measuring Advocacy Capacity" Jung Kim and Debra Strong
  Session: Evaluating Supplementary Programs in Educational Settings  
  "The Playworks Evaluation: A Randomized Study of a School-Based Intervention to Promote Physical Activity and Play" Daniel Finkelstein, Susanne James-Burdumy, and Martha Bleeker
Thursday, November 11    
9:15-10:45 a.m. Session: Using a Multi-Stage, Mixed Methods Approach to Improve the Design of System Change Evaluations Beth Stevens, Chair
  “Using Qualitative Methods to Identify System Dynamics and Inform System Evaluation Design” Margaret Hargreaves
  “Using Quantitative Research Methods in Evaluations of Simple, Organized Systems” Heather Koball
  “Applying Social Network Analysis to Evaluations of Complicated Systems” Todd Honeycutt
  Session: Methods Leading to Higher Quality Evaluations in Education Evaluation  
  “Impacts of Comprehensive Teacher Induction: Results from the Second Year of a Randomized Controlled Study” Eric Isenberg, Steven Glazerman, Martha Bleeker, Amy Johnson, Julieta Lugo-Gil, Mary Grider, Sarah Dolfin, and others
10:55 a.m.-12:25 p.m. Session: Evaluating Social Service Programs for Government and Foundations Beth Stevens, Chair
  “Foundation Requests for Rigorous Evaluation and the Response of Their Community-Based Grantees” Beth Stevens, Daniel Finkelstein, Jung Kim, Michaella Morzuch, and Cicely Thomas
  Session: Group and Cluster Randomized-Control Experimental Interventions in Educational Evaluation Studies  
  “Effectiveness of Selected Supplemental Reading Comprehension Interventions: Impacts on Two Cohorts of Fifth-Grade Students” Susanne James-Burdumy, John Deke, and Julieta Lugo-Gil
  “Comparative Advantage in Teaching: A Randomized Experiment” Steven Glazerman, Jeffrey Max, and Ali Protik
  Session: National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Office of Education's Portfolio Evaluation Approach: Focus on Questions That Provide High Value Answers  
  "Evaluation of NASA's Higher Education Portfolio" Clemencia Cosentino and others
  "Evaluation of NASA's Science, Engineering, Mathematics, and Aerospace Academy (SEMAA) Program: A National Program Impact and Implementation Study" Clemencia Cosentino and others
1:40-3:10 p.m. Session: Grappling with Uncertainty in Innovative and Complex Settings: Weaving Quality in Developmental Evaluation  
  “Navigating Uncertainty: The Cross-Site Evaluation of the Supporting Evidence-Based Home Visiting Grantee Cluster” Margaret Hargreaves, Diane Paulsell, Kimberly Boller, Debra Strong, Heather Zaveri, Heather Koball, Patricia Del Grosso, Russell Cole, and others
3:35-4:20 p.m. Session: Environmental Scans Using State Legislative Databases for Health Policy Research  
  "Environmental Scans Using State Legislative Databases for Health Policy Research" Sasigant O’Neil and Mindy Lipson
4:30-6:00 p.m. Session: Systems in Evaluation TIG Business Meeting and Presentation: Meet and Greet with Systems in Evaluation Authors Margaret Hargreaves, TIG Leader
  Session: Evaluation Quality from a Federal Perspective  
  "Evaluation Quality: Threats and Solutions" Clemencia Cosentino
Friday, November 12    
1:40-3:10 p.m. Session: Snapshots of Exemplary Evaluations  
  “Informing Policy in a Cultural Crossfire: The Title V Abstinence Education Evaluation” Christopher Trenholm and Barbara Devaney

3:35-4:20 p.m.

 Session: Meta-Reviews in Rural Education and Reading Interventions  
  “Reviewing Systematic Reviews: Meta-Analysis of What Works Clearinghouse Computer-Assisted Reading Interventions” Andrei Streke and others
Saturday, November 13    

1:40-2:25 p.m.

 Session: A Closer Look at Non-Equivalent Designs in Evaluation  
  “The Truncation-by-Death Problem: What to Do in a Experimental Evaluation When the Outcome is Not Always Defined” Sheena McConnell, Barbara Devaney, and others
  Session: Applications and Issues with Regression Discontinuity Designs  
  “Replicating Experimental Impact Estimates Using a Regression Discontinuity Design” Jillian Berk, Philip Gleason, and Alexandra Resch
  Session: Assessing the Use of Test Score Data to Inform Decisions About Student Achievement  
  “Using Student Test Scores to Evaluate Performance” Steven Glazerman and Liz Potamites
2:50-4:20 p.m. Session: Evaluating the State of Charter Schools and Public Schools of Choice  
  “National Evaluation of Knowledge Is Power Program (KIPP) Middle Schools: Impacts on Student Achievement” Brian Gill, Philip Gleason, Ira Nichols-Barrer, Bing-ru Teh, and Christina Tuttle
  “Lottery-Based Estimates of Charter School Impacts and Factors Related to Impacts” Christina Tuttle, Philip Gleason, and Melissa Clark