Members of Washington Evaluators (WE) will be participating in Evaluation 2016 sponsored by the American Evaluation Association (AEA) in Atlanta, Georgia from October 24-29.  At least 66 WE members will join the conference as presenters, panel chairs, group leaders, and discussants in over 100 sessions. 

A list of the WE members participating in AEA sessions in any capacity is provided below (as of Sept. 6, 2016).  Please refer to the official AEA conference program for all final session dates and times.

Pre-Conference Workshops

Oct 24, 2016 (09:00 AM - 04:00 PM)

• Donna Mertens, Evaluation 101
  

Oct 25, 2016 (09:00 AM - 04:00 PM)

• Gail Barrington, Your Consulting Practice: Ready, Set, Go!
  
• Michael Cohen, Fundamentals of Probability Sampling for Evaluators and Program Managers
  

Oct 26, 2016 (08:00 AM - 03:00 PM)

• Gail Barrington, Intermediate Consulting Skills: Using a Complexity Focus to Manage Your Consulting Practice
  
• Rodney Hopson, Foundations of Culturally Responsive Evaluation
  

Wednesday, October 26, 2016

Oct 26, 2016 (04:30 PM - 06:00 PM)

• David Bernstein (chair), Kathryn Newcomer, Rodney Hopson, Joe Wholey, Designing Careers in Evaluation and Preparing Evaluation Students and New Evaluators for the Profession
  
• Val Caracelli (discussant), Adapting Evaluation Designs to Real World Changes and Challenges: US and International Examples 
  
• Amanda Jones, Assessments with LGBTQ Youth
  
• Shannon Williams, Conducting Propensity Score Matching and Survival Analysis to Predict Recidivism for a Home Visitation Program Evaluation: Case Study, and Applying Results
  

Oct 26, 2016 (06:15 PM - 07:00 PM)

• Lily Zandniapour, Design and Implementation of Evaluation for an Emerging Strategy: Insights and Lessons from the Evaluation of the Social Innovation Fund (SIF) Pay for Success program
  

Oct 26, 2016 (07:00 PM - 09:00 PM) – Poster Session

• Laura Arnston, Monitoring and Evaluating Progress on Organizational Reform Efforts
  
• Denise Baer, Challenges of Conducting Needs Assessments
  
• Asher Beckwitt, William Pate II, KBIC Fish Consumption Assessment: A Collaborative Approach
  
• Mary Ann Noecker Guadagno, A Natural Language Processing Approach to Content Analysis of CSR Survey Responses 
  
• Amanda Greene, Bibliometrics: a Key Performance Indicator in Assessing the Influence of Biomedical Research
  
• Patricia Alejandra Montano, STEM Evaluation Resources on InformalScience.org
  
• William Pate II, Advanced versus practical statistics: The wisdom of good design
  
• Tianne Wu, The Cost Effectiveness of Community Health Worker Programs: A Tool for Addressing Social Determinants of Health
  
• Brandie Taylor, Evaluation of the NIAID/NIH Immunology Database and Analysis Portal (ImmPort) 
  
• Brandie Taylor, Facilitating Remote Meeting Essentials at the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases: Evaluating a Training Session
  

Thursday, October 27, 2016

Oct 27, 2016 (07:00 AM - 07:45 AM)

• Denise Baer, The Value of Evaluation Design in Measuring the Impact of Democracy and Governance in Closing Spaces and Challenging Environments
  
• Shira Solomon, Culture, Climate, and Collaborations: Working Together to Improve Student Learning
  

Oct 27, 2016 (08:00 AM - 09:30 AM)

• Michael Cohen (facilitator), Results Visualization and Data Sharing Strategies for Complex Global Programs
  
• Dale Miller Hill, When Public and Private Interests Coexist: How to Measure Social Impact of B corporations and Social Entrepreneurship Ventures?
  
• Nils Junge, Designed for Impact: The World Bank and Evidence-Based Policy Making
  
• Julia Rollison, The Influence of Domain-Specific Metric Development on Evaluation and Design: An Example from National Institutes of Health Technology Development Programs
  
• Svetlana Negroustoueva, Challenges and Successes of Operationalizing EvalGender+ Globally 
  
• Shira Solomon, Evaluating Partnerships: What Are We Looking For?
  
• Lily Zandniapour, The Social Innovation Fund (SIF) National Assessment: A Design Framework for Evaluating a Model Grantmaking Program Focused on Strengthening Organizational Capacity and Practices for High-Performing Nonprofit Organizations
  

Oct 27, 2016 (11:00 AM - 11:45 AM)

• Donna Mertens, Effective analysis and interpretation of mixed methods evaluation data
  
• Michele Tarsilla (discussant), Making monitoring more evaluative: Tales from the US and Brazil
  

• Julianne Manchester, Applying Lean Six Sigma Principles to Department of Defense Traumatic Brain Injury Programs to Enhance Process Improvement and Evaluation

Oct 27, 2016 (11:45 AM - 12:45 PM)

• Heather Britt, When Linear Logic Models Just Don't Work
  
• Jessica Harlan, Evaluators of Health Professions Education: A Networking Opportunity
  
• Safiya Khalid, Effective Public Donations in Support of Disaster Relief
  

Oct 27, 2016 (01:00 PM - 01:45 PM)

• Stephen Axelrad, The Social-Ecological Model in the Military: A paradigm to help evaluators bridge the civilian-military divide
  
• Val Caracelli (Chair), Advancing  Equity Through Evaluation: A Dialogue Across Across Different Standpoints
  
• Nick Hart, David Bernstein, Patricia Moore Shaffer, Clarisa Rodrigues Ceolho,Navigating the Politics of Data Collection for Government Evaluation
  
• Jessica Harlan, Uniting Evaluators in Health Professions Education: Creating a New Topical Interest Group
  
• Rodney Hopson, Evaluation Use in Complex Multi-Site Settings: Balancing the Needs of Diverse Stakeholders
  
• Dow Maneerattana, Evaluating the usership of open-data or web-based initiatives through user stories
  

Oct 27, 2016 (02:00 PM - 02:45 PM)

• Laura Arnston (discussant), Building the Practice of Evaluation at USAID: A Global Fellows Program
  
• Heather Dantzker, Bringing a Sustainability Mindset to Your Expanding Practice: Opportunities for Evaluators in Non-profits, Government and the Private Sector
  
• Moira Rivera, Designing for Meaningful Evaluation: Examples from CDC’s DELTA FOCUS Program
  
• Michele Tarsilla (chair), How evaluation contributes to/influences program design?
  

Oct 27, 2016 (03:00 PM - 04:30 PM)

• Stephen Axelrad (chair), Building Responsive Communities: Organizing and Evaluating for Successful Military Transitions
  
• David Bernstein, Nick Hart, Communities of Practice (CoPs) of Evaluators: Exploring Theories and Practice Guiding the Design and Practice of Evaluator “Communities”
  
• Helene Jennings (discussant), Needles in a Haystack: Strategies for Recruiting Marginalized or Hard-to-Reach Populations
  
• Kristin Lindell (Chair), Innovative Evaluation Designs in International Contexts: An Overview of Three Case Studies
  
• Liudmila K. Mikhailova, Preparing International Evaluation Practitioners: Methods and Innovative Approaches towards Teaching International Program Evaluation at the Graduate School Level
  
• Svetlana Negroustoueva, AEA's Role in the New Global Initiatives from EvalPartners
  
• Brian Yates (chair and discussant), Comprehensive Designs for Cost-Inclusive Evaluations: the Resource → activity → process → outcome analysis (RAPOA) Model
  

Oct 27, 2016 (04:45 PM - 06:15 PM)

• Katherine Dawes (discussant), Evaluating into Lean and Leaning into Evaluation: Lessons Learned from Environmental Evaluation 
  
• Diana Epstein, Design Considerations When an Intervention Refuses to Sit Still
  
• David Bernstein, Kathryn Newcomer (discussant), Four Key Design Elements for Successful Evaluation Use in the Federal Government
  
• Kate Goddard Rohrbaugh, Multi-dimensionality of measurement in international evaluation: Challenges and opportunities
  
• Jana Sharp, Evaluating the Evaluator: Strategies and Tools to Measure Your Firm’s Performance from the Inside Out
  

Friday, October 28, 2016

Oct 28, 2016 (08:00 AM - 09:30 AM)

• Korrine Chiu, Design Tools in an Evaluator's Toolbox: Taking a Human Centered Design Approach
  
• Jennifer Gauck, Designing Multi-Country Evaluations: Approaches, Challenges and Opportunities
  
• Joanie Cohen-Mitchell, Enhanced Program Design 2.0 for Better Impact
  
• Carlisle Levine , Measuring Agency-Level Results: Can it Work, and Does It Matter? Findings From an InterAction White Paper
  
• Marcie Parkhurst, Designing a Learning Compass for Systems Change
  
• Lauren Spigel, Design Tools in an Evaluator's Toolbox: Taking a Human Centered Design Approach
  
• Shira Solomon (discussant), Evaluating Programs for Elementary and Middle School Students
  
• Michele Tarsilla, Equity-focused monitoring, evaluation and capacity development in light of the SDG agenda
  

Oct 28, 2016 (11:00 AM - 11:45 AM)

• Christina Freyman, Using Administrative Data in Science, Engineering, and Public Health Investment Program Evaluation
  
• Giovanni Dazzo, Exploring opportunities for honest communication to improve democracy, human rights and peacebuilding
  
• Cheryl Oros, Introduction to Evaluation and Public Policy
  
• Moira S. Rivera, Small business in a big pond: Tips and tricks for independent consultants and small businesses pursuing Federal program evaluation contracts
  
• Svetlana Negroustoueva, Evaluation in the era of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development
  
• Christina Russell (chair), Evaluation Capacity Building in the Early Childhood Development Field: Tools and Relationships
  

Oct 28, 2016 (01:45 PM - 03:15 PM)

• Gail Barrington, Research on Professionalizing Evaluation - The Case of the Canadian Evaluation Society's Credentialed Evaluator Designation
  
• Val Caracelli, Stephanie Shipman, Melissa Chiu, The Promise and Pitfalls of Using Administrative Data for Program Evaluation
  
• Grace Friedberger, Key Issues in Federal Government Evaluation
  
• Rodney Hopson, Deep into the social justice iceberg: How evaluation helps design and drive whole-systems change (a live K-12 example)
  
• Kathryn Newcomer, What Is AEA Doing to Support the Global Evaluation Agenda 2016-2020?
  
• Sarya Sok, Evaluation Blockbusters: What we learned about evaluation from watching movies
  
• Michele Tarsilla, Critical international evaluation: Culture, language and power
  

Oct 28, 2016 (03:30 PM - 04:15 PM)

• Mary Ann Noecker Guadagno, Quality Evaluations of Stakeholder Satisfaction through Focus Groups and Executive Interviews
  
• Ted Kniker, The framework of the Mexican policy evaluation to achieve its effectiveness
  

Oct 28, 2016 (04:30 PM - 05:15 PM)

• Ted Kniker, Government Evaluation 101: What Should Be the "Common Core" of Government Evaluation?
  
• Brian Yates, Critical Meta-Evaluation of Social Return on Investment (SROI): Evaluator, Economist, and Accountant Perspectives on Evaluation Design, Part 1
  

Oct 28, 2016 (05:30 PM - 06:15 PM)

• Patricia Moore Shaffer, Capacity Building in Arts Organizations
  
• Brian Yates, Critical Meta-Evaluation of Social Return on Investment (SROI): Evaluator, Economist, and Accountant Perspectives on Evaluation Design, Part 2
  

Saturday, October 29, 2016

Oct 29, 2016 (08:00 AM - 09:30 AM)

• Korrine Chiu, Focusing Digital Dashboards for Use: Considering Design, Planning and Context 
  
• Cheryl Oros, Kathryn Newcomer (discussant), AEA Evaluation Policy Task Force (EPTF) Update 
  
• Kristin Lindell, Evaluating Integrated Global Development: Designs for Impact Assessment and Data Visualization
  
• Donna Mertens, Indigenous By Design
  
• Susan Rogers, Adaptive management in the Face of ‘Wicked Problems’: Using M&E Learnings for Timely Program Innovation 
  
• Lauren Spigel, Focusing Digital Dashboards for Use: Considering Design, Planning and Context 
  
• Lee Sutton, Adaptive management in the Face of ‘Wicked Problems’: Using M&E Learnings for Timely Program Innovation 
  
• Michele Tarsilla, Integrating evaluation into national governments and public organizations: Tips to consider
  

Oct 29, 2016 (09:45 AM - 10:30 AM)

• Stephen Axelrad (discussant),  Evaluation Design for Health and Wellness in the Military: Tracking Health Related Behaviors and Counseling Utilization with Active Duty Personnel
  
• Gail Barrington, Role reversal: when the evaluator is the evaluatee
  
• Heather Britt, Process Monitoring of Impacts: A USAID Illustration of a Systemic Design and Monitoring Technique
  
• Sierra Frischknech (facilitator), New Evaluators in New Frontiers: Innovative Approaches to Link Program and Evaluation Design 
  
• Kerry Bruce, Karen Snyder New Approaches to the Design and Evaluation of Global Programs to End Modern Slavery: Establishing an Evidence Base and Understanding What Works
  
• Erin Murrock, Challenges of measuring learning and behavior change with at-risk media practitioners
  
• Christina Russell, Designing an Evaluation Approach for a Public Agency: Balancing Monitoring, Quality Improvement, and Staff Capacity 
  

Oct 29, 2016 (10:45 AM - 11:30 AM)

• Heather Britt, Outcome Harvesting nitty-gritty: Promise and Pitfalls of Participatory Design
  

Oct 29, 2016 (02:00 PM - 05:00 PM)

• Donna Mertens, Mixed Methods Design in Evaluation
  
• Bernadette M Wright, Ladel Lewis, Little Is Known? Designing More Useful Reviews of Related Research Evidence

If you're a WE member and your presentation's not listed here, let us know atwasheval@gmail.com.