The Evaluation Center at Â鶹´«Ã½ offers lectures, seminars, group work, and presentations through the Evaluation Café to enhance knowledge and skills in the field of evaluation.
"Visiting scholar symposium: measurement and disclosure of learning outcomes in Japanese university education"
Date: Wednesday, August 28, 2019
Presenters: Toru Hayashi 1; Masayuki Fukano 2; Satoshi Ozeki 3
1 Associate Professor, Center for Promotion of Higher Education, Yamaguchi University; 2 Associate Professor, Institute for the Advancement of Higher Education, Osaka Prefecture University; 3 Assistant Professor, Institutional Research Office, Asahikawa Medical University
"Evaluation marketplace: Small-market evaluations"
Date: Wednesday, September 11, 2019
Presenter: Melanie Hwalek, Ph.D., CEO of SPEC Associates, Assistant Professor of Program Evaluation at Michigan State University
"Human subject institutional review board: processes and pitfalls"
Date: Wednesday, September 18, 2019
Presenter: Julia Mays, Associate Director of Research Compliance at Â鶹´«Ã½
"Using Tableau visualization for your 'R' data"
Date: Wednesday, September 25, 2019
Presenter: Nolan Akerman, Principal Data Scientist - Global Analytics at Kellogg Company
"Data cleaning in excel"
Date: Wednesday, October 2, 2019
Presenter: Miranda Lee, The Evaluation Center at Â鶹´«Ã½
"Ten steps to effective advocacy"
Date: FRIDAY, October 11, 2019
Presenter: State Representative Jon Hoadley, State Representative of Michigan's 60th District
"Equitable evaluation: Whose voice counts"
Date: Wednesday, October 23, 2019
Presenter: Teri Behrens, Executive Director of the Johnson Center for Philanthropy at Grand Valley State University
"Getting started with 'R'"
Date: Wednesday, October 30, 2019
Presenter: Rachel Borashko, Data Analyst at the Johnson Center for Philanthropy at Grand Valley State University
"A systemic approach to identifying learning needs and performance system requirements: A multinational case study"
Date: Wednesday, November 20, 2019
Presenter: Ingrid J. Guerra-Lopez, Professor, Learning Design and Technology and Director, Institute for Learning and Performance Improvement in the College of Education at Wayne State University
"Ask about aspirations: Turning outward in southwest Michigan"
Date: Wednesday, December 4, 2019
Presenter: Rachel Wade, Vice President of Strategy at United Way of Southwest Michigan
"Making the most out of your association membership"
Date: Wednesday, December 11, 2019
(Held at the Bernhard Center Room 157 from 12:30 to 1:30 p.m.)
Presenter: Aimee White, President of the American Evaluation Association, President and Principal Evaluator at Custom Evaluation Service, Inc.
"Trauma-informed evaluation: Protecting participants and practitioners"
Date: Wednesday, January 15, 2020
Presenters: Bo Klauth - Doctoral Student in Evaluation, Measurement, and Research; Jennifer Klauth - Manager of Recruitment and Outreach, School of Social Work at Â鶹´«Ã½
"Preparing new evaluators: A model for assessing and training graduate Â鶹´«Ã½s"
Date: Wednesday, January 22, 2020
Presenters: Chad Jobin - Evaluation Associate and Field Coordinator, University of Michigan School of Social Work; Ebony Reddock - Principal Consultant, Bumblebee Design and Evaluation
"No more textbooks: The structuration of resistance to an imposed organizational change"
Date: Wednesday, January 29, 2020
Presenter:David Szabla - Associate Professor, Organizational Change Leadership at Â鶹´«Ã½
"Can evaluation gain anything from thinking in alien terms"
Date: Wednesday, February 5, 2020
Presenter: Jonny Morell - Director of Evaluation, Syntek Technologies
"Applying evaluation thinking to community health practice: an example in the area of data infrastructure development and multi-sectoral systems change"
Date: Wednesday, February 12, 2020
Presenter: Clare Tanner - Director, Center for Data Management and Translational Research at the Michigan Public Health Institute; Co-Director, Data Across Sectors for Health
"How FDR segregated Kalamazoo"
Date: Wednesday, February 19, 2020
Presenter: Matt Smith - Librarian at the Kalamazoo Public Library and Member of the Anti-racism Transformation Team
"Refugee narratives and humanitarian governmentality"
Date: Wednesday, February 26, 2020
Presenter: Houman Oliaei - Doctoral Student in Cultural Anthropology, Brandeis University
"Lessons learned from a study of three developmental evaluations"
Date: Wednesday, March 11, 2020
Presenter: Heather Esper - Senior Program Manager, William Davidson Institute at University of Michigan