Dr. Mark Lipsey, a leader of the field of evaluation, talks about evidence-based practice and its relation to evaluation. Evidenced-based social science theories are often helpful for understanding the etiology of desired or undesired outcomes and...
Evaluation; NGO; Human rights; Social Psychology; Child wellbeing; Childhood development; Education; South Africa; Infant mortality; AIDS; Life expectancy
Dr. Louw provides the history of human rights throughout the world and specifically describes the rights community in early childhood development. He discusses the need for joint work by all organizations that is based on agreement of problems and...
Evaluation; Policy and research series; Social sciences; Rand Corporation; Development; Politics and policy making
In his presentation Dr. Klitgaard provides the history of evaluation and policy analysis that evolved through three generations since WWII. By listing examples and tools used for evaluations he aims to facilitate future evaluation research that...
Evaluation; Social sciences; South Africa; Malaysia
Dr. Ross Conner, President of the Board of the International Organization for Cooperation in Evaluation, in his Keynote Address discusses IOCE’s commitment to building a worldwide evaluation community. Dr. Conner gives a brief history and...
Psychology, Applied; Careers for the 21st century; Social sciences; Universities and colleges; Universities and colleges Graduate work
Dale E. Berger of Claremont Graduate University gives a symposium presentation focusing on preparing for careers where one can apply the science of psychology in non-academic settings. Berger's main thesis is that there are many new and upcoming...
Social psychology; Evaluation; American Evaluation Association
This debate between Dr. Fetterman, Dr. Scriven and Dr. Patton covers issues related to empowerment evaluation and offers an intense arguments about its promise and pitfalls. The debate covers
Social psychology; Evaluation; American Evaluation Association
In this debate Dr. Patton and Dr. Scriven discuss issues related to utilization-focused evaluation and its promise and pitfalls respectively. The debate covers key issues to how the field is practiced today. The debaters discuss the importance of...
Social psychology; Evaluation; Applied social research; American Evaluation Association; Experiments; Qualitative research
The 2004 debate was a part of the annual Professional Development Workshop Series organized by the School of Behavioral and Organizational Science at Claremont Gradate University. Dr. Lipsey, Dr. Scriven and Dr. Donaldson discuss key issues of...
Social psychology; Mathematics; Teaching; Exploring issues in mathematics education
In this presentation, Dr. Stigler briefly describes most recent findings from the TIMSS (Third International Mathematics and Science Study) Video Studies of mathematics and science teaching in seven countries, and discuss the implications of these...
