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Director
Dr. Ann Doucette is the Director of
The Evaluators' Institute (September 2008), Executive Director of the
Midge Smith Center for Evaluation Effectiveness, and a Research Professor
at The George Washington University, Washington, DC. She has broad experience in
the management, analysis, and evaluation of diverse intervention programs, the
development of accountability and outcomes monitoring systems at individual and
system levels; research methodology, data collection strategies, psychometric
and measurement techniques, and applied statistical analysis, including both
quantitative and qualitative approaches. Dr. Doucette has been a TEI faculty
member since 2003, and teaches Applied Measurement for Evaluation and
Creating "Actionable" Data for Complex Service Systems.
Dr. Doucette has worked with federal and state organizations, universities,
community groups, public schools, commercial health plans, and foundations
regarding evaluation management and design, analytic modeling, assessment,
testing and measurement in the areas of health and behavioral health care,
school reform (urban and minority education), social systems and social policy,
juvenile justice, poverty and disparity, and conflict and cooperation models.
Her expertise includes the development of performance and outcome measurement
systems that target accountability, quality monitoring and outcomes for system
and individual levels of intervention/care. Her work includes a specialized
emphasis on measurement, which she considers fundamentally critical for
evaluation practice, and a complex adaptive systems perspective. She has
developed several assessment measurement approaches using Item Response Theory (IRT)
to generate measures having greater precision using brief, less burdensome
instrumentation, which have the potential to lead to computer-adaptive
applications and real-time data usage.
Dr. Doucette has served on several technical advisory panels. Among these
panels are: the American Psychological Association (APA) Taskforce on
Pay-for-Performance, and the American Medical Association's Physicians
Consortium for Quality Improvement, The Joint Commission;
Hospital-based Inpatient Psychiatric Services (HBIPS) measures; National
Committee for Quality Assurance (NCQA) ADHD and substance abuse measures; and
the Forum on Performance Measures for Behavioral Healthcare and Related
Service Systems. She received her doctoral training at Columbia University.
Founding Director
M. F. (Midge) Smith. Dr. Smith is
the founder of The Evaluators' Institute and was its director from the start
of TEI until September 2008. She was a teacher in the 1999 program of TEI.
She has been a leader in the field of program evaluation for nearly 30
years. She authored/co-authored well over 100 publications and reports on
evaluation and planning, including the book Evaluability Assessment
(Kluwer, 1989); The Profession of Evaluation section of the 2002
International Handbook on Educational Evaluation; and the 1994 (Evaluation
Practice) and 2001 (American Journal of Evaluation) assessments of The
Future of Evaluation. She served on many national committees, including
the Government Auditing Standards Advisory Council. Among her awards is the
AEA Robert Ingle Service Award. She was a member of the Board of Director of
the American Evaluation Association for ten years and for eight, editor of
the AEA journal Evaluation Practice the forerunner of The American
Journal of Evaluation.
She worked in a variety of professional and academic fields with many
different constituencies, e.g., colleges of education and agriculture,
medical center with six colleges and a teaching hospital, cooperative
extension services; in vocational education and in special education; with
county school systems, county administrators and elected officials,
citizens, and congressmen.
She directed or co-directed evaluations in several areas, e.g.,
agriculture, nutrition, family finance, health, youth development; where
participants were adults, teens, and very young children; for programs that
reached a single class and those that touched people across a state and the
nation; evaluations that focused on process and outcomes/impact of programs;
on program improvement and accountability; and research on evaluation
methodology.
Dr. Smith was schooled at three universities: Mississippi State University
(Bachelors), University of Florida (Masters), and the University of Maryland
(PhD); plus attended numerous short courses like a one-week course on public
program evaluation at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and a
one-week course on executive effectiveness presented by the American
Management Association.
TEI Faculty
Mr. James Bell is the President of
James Bell Associates, Inc., a 35-person firm that has specialized in
national health and human services program evaluation for 29 years. He has
34 years of evaluation management experience on more than 100 projects
sponsored by federal, state, and local government agencies and non-profit
foundations. His project management experience spans an array of evaluation
designs and programmatic areas, including: exploratory case studies of
innovations in rural health care finance and delivery; design of a random
assignment evaluation of a promising foster care prevention intervention;
and, a nationally representative survey on protections for human research
subjects. Recently, he evaluated models of integrated care for persons
living with HIV and co-morbid psychiatric and addiction disorders. He led a
ground-breaking $40 million multi-site cooperative research program in this
area that was jointly funded by the National Institutes of Health and two
other federal agencies. From 1974 to 1979, he worked with Joseph Wholey and
other members of the Urban Institute's Program Evaluation Studies Group to
develop logic models, evaluability assessment and other approaches to
planning useful program evaluations.
The management course he is currently teaching for TEI draws from Chapter 20,
Managing Evaluation Projects, which he wrote for the Handbook of Practical
Program Evaluation: Second Edition (Wholey, Hatry, Newcomer, Eds., Jossey-Bass,
2004) as well as earlier publications including Evaluation and the Federal
Decision Maker (New Directions for Program Evaluation, Jossey-Bass, 1990).
For further information regarding Mr. Bell see James Bell Associates at:
http://www.jbassoc.com
Dr. John Bryson is the McKnight
Presidential Professor of Planning and Public Affairs, Hubert H. Humphrey
Institute of Public Affairs, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis. He works in
the areas of leadership, strategic management, and the design of organizational
and community change processes. He wrote the best-selling and award-winning
book, Strategic Planning for Public and Nonprofit Organizations (2004),
and co-wrote (with Barbara Crosby) the award-winning book, Leadership for
the Common Good (2005).
Dr. Bryson is a Fellow of the National Academy of Public Administration. He
has received many awards for his work, including four best book awards, three
best article awards, the General Electric Award for Outstanding Research in
Strategic Planning from the Academy of Management, and the Distinguished
Research Award and the Charles H. Levine Memorial Award for Excellence in Public
Administration given jointly by the American Society for Public Administration
and the National Association of Schools of Public Affairs and Administration. He
serves on the editorial boards of the Journal of Public Administration
Research and Theory, Public Management Review, International
Public Management Journal, American Review of Public Administration,
and Journal of Public Affairs Education.
From 2004 to 2008 he served as associate dean of the Humphrey Institute. From
1998 to 2000 he was director of the Institute's Master of Public Affairs degree;
from 1997 to 2000 he was collegiate program leader for the University of
Minnesota Extension Service; from 1997 to 1999, he was director of the
Institute's Reflective Leadership Center; and from 1983 to 1989, he was
associate director of the University's Strategic Management Research Center. He
has consulted with a wide variety of governing bodies, government agencies,
nonprofit organizations, and for-profit corporations in North America and
Europe. He holds a doctorate and master of science degree in urban and regional
planning and a master of arts degree in public policy and administration, all
from the University of Wisconsin.
Dr. Doreen Cavanaugh is a Research Associate Professor at the
Health Policy Institute, Georgetown Public Policy Institute, Georgetown
University where she is responsible for conducting a program of research
and policy analysis in the areas of child and adolescent mental health
and substance abuse treatment. She is a Senior Advisor to the Center for
Substance Abuse Treatment, (SAMHSA) on adolescent issues addressing the
financing and organization of adolescent substance abuse treatment
services as well as services for youth with co-occurring disorders. Dr.
Cavanaugh is the National Program Director of a 16 state CSAT grant
initiative to improve the state infrastructure supporting delivery of
treatment for adolescents with substance use and co-occurring disorders.
She served as Chairperson of the Financing Workgroup for the Center for
Substance Abuse Treatment/Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Summit on
Adolescent Substance Abuse Treatment and works on issues including
financing treatment and program sustainability. She has completed an
extensive analysis of federal policies affecting the delivery of
treatment services for adolescents with substance use disorders, and has
consulted on the organization and financing of child and adolescent
treatment services for states, foundations and national organizations.
Dr. Cavanaugh is Co-chair of a CSAT sponsored committee developing a
consumer perception of care survey for adolescents and adults receiving
substance abuse treatment. She was the Co-chair of a joint CSAT/CMHS
Child/Adolescent Modular Survey Committee and chaired the Washington
Circle Subcommittee on Performance Measurement for Care of Adolescents
with Substance Use Disorders, a Center for Substance Abuse Treatment
supported national group of adolescent substance abuse treatment experts
charged with assessing the applicability of the Washington Circle
administrative measures to adolescent substance abuse treatment. She
serves on a number of related committees including the CMHS sponsored
Outcomes Roundtable for Children and Families. Currently Dr. Cavanaugh
teaches Mental Health Policy at the Georgetown Public Policy Institute.
She taught both Child Welfare Policy and Mental Health Policy at the
Boston University School of Social Work for many years. Dr. Cavanaugh
received her Ph.D. in Social Policy from the Heller School for Social
Policy and Management, Brandeis University.
Dr. Don A. Dillman is The Thomas S.
Foley Distinguished Professor of Government and Public Policy in the Departments
of Sociology, and Rural Sociology and Deputy Director for Research in the Social
and Economic Sciences Research Center at Washington State University. From
1991-1995 he was the Senior Survey Methodologist at the U.S. Bureau of the
Census, where he provided leadership for the development of the 2000 Decennial
Census Form and implementation procedures. Since 1995 he has been a Senior
Scientist for the Gallup Organization. His 1978 book, Mail and Telephone
Surveys, was the first to provide step-by-step procedures for conducting such
surveys. His current research emphasizes how the visual design and layout of
questionnaires influences respondent answers, and the mixing of new survey
technologies, such as the web and touch-tone data entry. Recent papers appear on
his web page
www.survey.sesrc.wsu.edu/dillman/
Gary T. Henry holds the Duncan MacRae
'09 and Rebecca Kyle MacRae Professorship of Public Policy in the Department of
Public Policy and directs the Carolina Institute for Public Policy at the
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Also, he holds the appointment as
Senior Statistician in Frank Porter Graham Institute for Child Development at
UNC-Chapel Hill. Formerly, he held the William Neil Reynolds Distinguished
University Visiting Professorship at UNC. He has served as a professor in the
Andrew Young School of Policy Studies, Department of Political Science, and
Department of Education Policy Studies at Georgia State University and the
Department of Public Policy at Georgia Institute of Technology. He previously
served as the Director of Evaluation and Learning Services for the David and
Lucile Packard Foundation. Henry has evaluated a variety of policies and
programs, including North Carolina's Disadvantaged Student Supplemental Fund,
Georgia's Universal Pre-K, public information campaigns, and the HOPE
Scholarship as well as school reforms and accountability systems. The author of
Practical Sampling (Sage 1990), Graphing Data (Sage 1995) and
co-author of Evaluation: An Integrated Framework for Understanding, Guiding,
and Improving Policies and Programs (Jossey-Bass 2000), Henry has
published extensively in the fields of evaluation and education policy. He
received the Outstanding Evaluation of the Year Award from the American
Evaluation Association in 1998 for his work with the Georgia's Council for
School Performance and the Joseph S. Wholey Distinguished Scholarship Award in
2001 from the American Society for Public Administration and the Center for
Accountability and Performance along with Steve Harkreader. Dr. Henry currently
serves on the Standing Committee for Systemic Reform, Institute of Education
Sciences, U.S. Department of Education. Recently, he completed service on a
National Research Council/National Academies of Sciences committee assessing the
effects of green schools on the health and productivity of teachers and students
and co-authored the committee report.
Professor James Edwin Kee is Professor in
the Trachtenberg School of Public Policy and Public Administration of the George
Washington University, Washington, DC. Prior to joining GWU, he spent 17 years
in state government in New York as legislative assistant and counsel to the
State Assembly, and in Utah as State Budget Director and the first executive
director of the Utah Department of Administrative Services. He served 4 years as
managing editor of Public Budgeting Finance and has published numerous articles
on federal and state budget and fiscal policy, inter-governmental relations, and
public management in such prestigious periodicals as the Harvard Law Review, the
Public Administration Review, and Public Budgeting and Finance. His B.A. is from
the University of Notre Dame and his M.P.A. and J.D. degrees from New York
University where he was a Root-Tilden Scholar. He teaches public finance and
courses in leadership and ethics at GWU and taught previously at New York
University's Law School, the Lehman and Hunter Colleges of the City University
of New York, and the University of Utah. His current research interests include
the allocation of taxes among national and sub-national governments in Brazil
and the People's Republic of China. He is currently lead investigator on a
project for the Center for Innovation in the Public Sector on Leadership in
Change and Transformation.
Dr. Mark W. Lipsey is Director of the
Peabody Research Institute at Vanderbilt University. His research and teaching
interests are in the areas of public policy, program evaluation research, social
intervention, field research methodology, and research synthesis, with
particular emphasis on programs for children and youth. He is co-author of the
7th Edition of Rossi et al., Evaluation: A Systematic Approach, a
leading textbook in evaluation) and has consulted widely (e.g., in the U.S.,
Europe, India, and Africa). He is a former Editor-in-Chief of AEA's New
Directions for Program Evaluation and has served on the editorial boards of
the American Journal of Evaluation, Evaluation Review,
Evaluation Studies Review Annual, and Evaluation and Program Planning.
His work has been recognized with awards from the American Evaluation
Association, the Society for Prevention Research, and the Campbell
Collaboration, among others. Dr. Lipsey has taught regularly in The Evaluators'
Institute since its inception in 1996.
Dr. Arnold Love is an
internationally-recognized independent consultant based in Toronto, Canada, with
more than 25 years of experience in evaluation. He is author of a chapter on
internal evaluation in Encyclopedia of Program Evaluation(Sage, 2004), Internal
Evaluation: Building Organizations from Within (Sage, 1991), and a chapter on
implementation analysis for the new edition of The Handbook of Practical Program
Evaluation (Jossey-Bass, 2004)Dr. Love is editor of the Canadian Evaluation
Society's Evaluation Methods Sourcebook Series and of special issues of New
Directions for Program Evaluation and the Canadian Journal of Program
Evaluation. He received his PhD from University of Waterloo; has taught program
evaluation at the National Centre for Nonprofit Management at York University
and at the Centre for Innovative Management at Athabasca University. He served a
2-year term as President of the Canadian Evaluation Society. In 1996, he
recieved the CES National Award for Distinguished Contribution to Evaluation in
Canada and in 2005, he was made a Fellow of the CES. The American Evaluation
Association recognized Dr. Love in 1998 for his contributions to building a
worldwide evaluation community and in 2005 for his service to AEA. He is a
member of the Performance Measurement, Evaluation and Audit Committee of the
Canadian Institutes of Health Research.
Dr. Melvin M. Mark is Professor and Head
of Psychology at the Pennsylvania State University. He has served as President
of AEA and as Editor of the American Journal of Evaluation, where he is Editor
Emeritus. He has conducted federally funded evaluations in the areas of
prevention programs for at-risk youth, federal personnel policies, and
industrial modernization, and has been involved in evaluations of state and
local programs. An award-winning teacher, he has published numerous papers and
chapters on the theory and design of evaluations. Among his books are
Evaluation: An integrated framework for understanding, guiding, and improving
policies and programs (with Gary Henry and George Julnes), the SAGE
Handbook of Evaluation (with Ian Shaw and Jennifer Greene), What counts
as credible evidence in applied research and evaluation practice (with
Stewart Donaldson and Tina Christie), Evaluation in action: Interviews with
expert evaluators (with Jody Fitzpatrick and Tina Christie) and the
forthcoming Social Psychology and Evaluation (with Stewart Donaldson
and Bernadette Campbell).
Dr. Michael Morris is Professor of
Psychology at the University of New Haven, where he serves as Director of the
Master's Program in Community Psychology, and where, in both 1985 and 2008, he
received the University's Award for Distinguished Teaching. His 1993 study,
Program Evaluators and Ethical Challenges (published in Evaluation Review) was
the first national survey examining the ethical conflicts faced by evaluators. A
former chair of AEA's Ethics Committee, he co-edited an issue of New Directions
for Evaluation devoted to Current and Emerging Ethical Challenges in Evaluation.
His work has appeared in many journals, including the American Journal of
Evaluation, Evaluation and Program Planning, Social Policy, American Journal of
Community Psychology, Sociology and Social Research, and The American
Sociologist. He is co-author of Poverty and Public Policy (Greenwood Press,
1986) and co-editor of Myths about the Powerless (Temple University Press, 1996)
and has authored several invited book chapters, including one on ethics in The
International Handbook on Educational Evaluation (2003). He was editor of AJE's
Ethical Challenges column from 1998-2004. For the past two decades he has worked
as an organizational consultant for a variety of human-services and
public-sector agencies, and currently serves as an evaluator for the Commission
on Institutions of Higher Education of the New England Association of Schools
and Colleges. His latest book, Evaluation Ethics for Best Practice, was
published by Guilford Press in 2008.
Dr. Kathryn Newcomer is a professor
at the Trachtenberg School of Public Policy and Public Administration at the
George Washington University where she is also Co-Director of the Midge Smith
Center for Evaluation Effectiveness, home of The Evaluators' Institute, Director
of the Phd in Public Policy and Administration program, and Associate Director
of the School. She teaches public and nonprofit, program evaluation, research
design, and applied statistics. She routinely conducts research and training for
federal and local government agencies and nonprofit organizations on performance
measurement and program evaluation, and has designed and conducted evaluations
for many U.S. federal agencies, including the U.S. Departments of State, Health
and Human Services, Transportation, and General Services Administration and
dozens of nonprofit organizations.
Dr. Newcomer has published five books, Improving Government Performance
(1989), The Handbook of Practical Program Evaluation (1994, 2nd edition
2004), Meeting the Challenges of Performance-Oriented Government (2002)
and Getting Results: A Guide for Federal Leaders and Managers (2005), and
Transforming Public and Nonprofit Organizations: Stewardship for Leading Change
(2008), a volume of New Directions for Public Program Evaluation, Using
Performance Measurement to Improve Public and Nonprofit Programs
(1997), and numerous articles in journals including the American Journal of
Evaluation and Public Administration Review. She received the Elmer
B. Staats Award for her work on Accountability in Government, presented by the
National Capital Area Chapter of the American Society for Public Administration
in 2008. She is an elected Fellow of the National Academy of Public
Administration, and currently serves on the Comptroller General's Educators'
Advisory Panel. She served as President of the National Association of Schools
of Public Affairs and Administration (NASPAA) for 2006-2007. She has received
two Fulbright awards, one for Taiwan (1993) and one for Egypt (2001-04). She has
lectured on performance measurement and public program evaluation in Ukraine,
Brazil, Egypt, Taiwan, and the UK. Professor Newcomer has also held teaching
positions at the University of Nebraska at Lincoln, University of Denver,
Grinnell College, University of Iowa, and the National Chengchi University,
Taiwan. Dr. Newcomer earned a B.S. in education and an M.A. in Political Science
from the University of Kansas, and her Ph.D. in political science from the
University of Iowa.
Dr. Michael Quinn Patton directs an
organizational development and evaluation consulting business,
Utilization-Focused Evaluation. He has been an evaluation consultant for 33
years and has worked at local, state, national, and international levels. He has
evaluated a wide variety of programs in areas as diverse as health, human
services, education, cooperative extension, environment, agriculture,
employment, training, leadership development, literacy, early childhood and
parent education, poverty alleviation, economic development, and advocacy. He
has consulted with non-profit, philanthropic, private sector, and international
organizations. His consulting practice has included program evaluation,
strategic planning, conflict resolution, board facilitation, staff development,
futuring, and a variety of organizational development approaches.
He is author of five books on program evaluation including the new 4th edition
of Utilization-Focused Evaluation (Sage, 2008) and Qualitative
Evaluation and Research Methods (3rd edition, Sage, 2002). He is a former
President of the American Evaluation Association (AEA); received the Alva and
Gunner Myrdal Award from the Evaluation Research Society for outstanding
contributions to evaluation use and practice and the Paul Lazarsfeld Award for
lifetime contributions to evaluation theory from AEA. He has held many positions
including Director of the University of Minnesota's Center for Social Research
and received that University's Morse-Amoco Award for outstanding teaching. He
has wriiten a book with two Canadian colleagues entitledGetting to Maybe:
How the World Is Changed (Random House Canada, 2006). That book applies
systems thinking and complexity theory to social innovation. He is currently
writing a book on Developmental Evaluation. He has been teaching in
The Evaluators Institute since its beginning.
Dr. Theodore H. Poister is Professor
of Public Management and Policy in the Andrew Young School of Policy Studies at
Georgia State University where he specializes in public management and applied
research methods. He has previously served on the faculties of Southern
University and Penn State University and for a year was a visiting professor at
George Washington University. He has a long-standing interest in the use of
applied research methods and statistics to evaluate the performance of public
programs, and he teaches a highly regarded two course sequence in this area at
Georgia State in which he strives to make applied statistics understandable and
useable for master's students in public administration.
Poister is the author of early books in the field including Public Program
Analysis: Applied Research Methods (University Park Press, 1978), Applied
Program Evaluation in Local Government (Lexington Books, 1979), and Performance
Monitoring (Lexington Books, 1983), and his volume on Performance
Measurement for Public and Nonprofit Organizations was published in 2003 by
Jossey-Bass. Much of his research is concerned with results oriented management
strategies in the public sector and the use of such tools as strategic planning
and management, performance management, program evaluation, performance
measurement, and quality improvement methods in government. He has published
widely in these areas in such journals as Public Administration Review, Public
Productivity Management Review, Public Administration Quarterly, Evaluation
Review, American Review of Public Administration, The Journal of Urban Affairs,
and Public Works Management Policy Review.
Dr. Poister has a substantive interest in transportation policy and
management, but he has also worked in a variety of other program areas including
housing, criminal justice, mental disabilities, child support enforcement, and
public and community health. Beyond classroom teaching and academic research, he
enjoys working in the field with practicing public and nonprofit managers, and
over the years has conducted applied research projects, program evaluations,
statistical analyses, strategic planning efforts, and performance measurement
system development projects - as well as professional training and development
programs - for a wide variety of state, federal, local, and nonprofit agencies.
Organizations he has worked with in the past few years include the Georgia
Department of Administrative Services, the Georgia Office of Child Support
Enforcement, the Georgia Department of Community Health, the North Dakota State
Auditor's Office, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and the
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Office of Inspector General, as
well as the Pennsylvania Department of Transportation, the Williamsport Bureau
of Transportation, the Transportation Research Board, the Georgia Department of
Transportation, and the U.S. Maritime Administration.
Dr. Hallie Preskill is Professor in
the School of Behavioral and Organizational Sciences at Claremont Graduate
University. In 2005, she was elected to be incoming president of AEA, for
the year 2007. She is co-author of Reframing evaluation through appreciative
practices (with Catsambas, in press); and: Building Evaluation Capacity: 72
Activities for Teaching and Training (with Russ-Eft, 2004); Evaluation in
Organizations: A Systematic Approach to Enhancing Learning, Performance
Change (with Russ-Eft, 2001); Evaluative Inquiry for Learning in
Organizations (with Torres, 1999); Evaluation Strategies for Communication
and Reporting (with Torres, Piontek, 2nd ed., 2004); co-editor of Using
Appreciative Inquiry in Evaluation (with Coghlan, 2003); and Human Resource
Development Review (with Russ-Eft Sleezer, 1997). She has served on the
Board of Directors of the American Evaluation Association (AEA) and the
Academy of Human Resource Development, and is the section editor of the
Teaching Evaluation column in the American Journal of Evaluation. She
received AEA's Alva and Gunnar Myrdal Award for Outstanding Professional
Practice in 2002, and the University of Illinois Distinguished Alumni Award
in 2004. For over 20 years, she has provided consulting services in the
areas of program evaluation, training, and organization development. She has
also written numerous articles and book chapters on evaluation methods and
processes, and has conducted program evaluations in schools, healthcare,
non-profit, human service, and corporate organizations.
Dr. Debra J. Rog directs the Washington
office of the Vanderbilt University Center for Mental Health Policy,
Institute for Public Policy Studies. She has 20+ years of experience in
program evaluation/applied research and has directed numerous multi-site
evaluations and research projects, most for vulnerable populations. Current
projects include multi-site/multi-component studies of supported housing for
persons with serious mental illnesses, mental health and substance abuse
interventions for homeless families, housing services for persons with
HIV/AIDS, and community partnerships and collaborations focused on violence
preventions. She has numerous publications on evaluation methodology,
housing, homelessness, poverty, mental health, and program and policy
development, and is co-editor of the Applied Social Research Methods Series
and the recently published Handbook of Applied Social Research Methods
(1997, Sage). She has a recent article on the methodological lessons learned
from cross-site collaboration in the multi-site evaluation of supported
housing and has another multi-site effort in press, Sustaining
Collaboratives: A Cross-Site Analysis of the National Funding Collaborative
on Violence Prevention. She served on AEA's Board of Directors; and the
Advisory Committee of Women's Services for the U.S. Substance Abuse and
Mental Health Services Administration.
Dr. Patricia Rogers is Professor in
Public Sector Evaluation and leader of the research program in
Evidence-Based Policy and Practice in the Sustainable Health and Well-Being
Research Institute at RMIT University (Royal Melbourne Institute of
Technology), Australia . Dr. Rogers has undertaken evaluation and monitoring
since the mid 1980s in government (federal, state, and local) and
non-government organizations for a range of programs, including community
capacity building, family support, criminal offenders, policing, chemical
handling regulation, labour market legislation, maternal and child health,
agricultural research and extension, Indigenous housing, early childhood
services, physical infrastructure, education, welfare and social change
philanthropy. She is co-editor of a text on the challenges and opportunities
in using program theory in evaluation in New Directions in Evaluation (Jossey-Bass,
1999). She has written on diverse topics including building evaluation
capacity, using evaluation for improvement and organizational learning,
accountability, project sustainability, appreciative inquiry, and
cost-benefit analysis. Her most recent writing on program theory explores
how it can be used effectively for evaluation and performance monitoring of
complicated and complex interventions.
She has presented keynote addresses at conferences of the Australasian,
Aotearoa/New Zealand, European, United Kingdom, South African and Swedish
evaluation societies and associations and delivered evaluation workshops in
the USA, the UK, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, Japan, Singapore and
Malaysia . Her work has been recognized by the American Evaluation
Association's Myrdal Award for Evaluation Practice, presented to an
evaluation practitioner who has made a substantial and cumulative
contribution to the professional practice of evaluation, and whose work
brings to life the AEA's Guiding Principles for Evaluation, the Australasian
Evaluation Society's Evaluation Training and Services Award for outstanding
contributions to the profession of evaluation, the AES' Caulley-Tulloch
Prize for Pioneering Literature in Evaluation, and the AES Best Evaluation
Study Award.
Dr. Joe Wholey is Professor
Emeritus in the University of Southern California’s School of Policy,
Planning and Development and a Fellow of the National Academy of Public
Administration. An internationally known expert in strategic planning,
performance management, and program evaluation, Wholey is author of numerous
journal articles, book chapters, and books including Evaluation and
Effective Public Management and a number of co-edited books. A new
edition of Dr. Wholey’s Handbook of Practical Program Evaluation
(co-authored and co-edited with Harry Hatry and Kathryn Newcomer) is now in
the works.
Dr. Wholey has consulted with,
and provided training for, The World Bank and a wide variety of
government agencies, nonprofit organizations, and foundations in this
country and abroad. He was President of the Evaluation Research Society
and is a co-founder of the American Evaluation Association.
Dr. Wholey came to Washington
as a senior staff member at the Institute for Defense Analyses. He was
Special Assistant to the Deputy Assistant Secretary for Program Analysis
and was Director of Evaluation in the U.S. Department of Health,
Education, and Welfare in the Johnson Administration; Director of
Evaluation Studies at The Urban Institute; and Deputy Assistant
Secretary for Evaluation in the U.S. Department of Health and Human
Services in the Carter Administration. He was Senior Advisor to the
Deputy Director for Management in the U.S. Office of Management and
Budget in the Clinton Administration and was Senior Advisor for
Evaluation Methodology and Senior Advisor for Performance and
Accountability in the U.S. Government Accountability Office. Dr. Wholey
has been a local elected official, serving three times as Chairman of
the County Board of Arlington, Virginia, and as Chairman of the
Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority (Metro). He was Chairman
of the Virginia Board of Social Services, President of Capital Hospice,
and a co-founder and Chairman of the International Hospice Institute. He
was a co-founder and President of the Arlington Partnership for
Affordable Housing and is a co-founder and board member of the Alliance
for Housing Solutions.
Dr. Wholey holds a doctorate in
philosophy and a master of arts in mathematics from Harvard University
and a bachelor of arts in mathematics from The Catholic University of
America.
Dr. David Wilson is an
Associate Professor in the Department of Administration of Justice at
George Mason University. He received his Ph.D. in applied social
psychology from Claremont Graduate University. His research interests
include program evaluation research methodology, meta-analysis, and the
effectiveness of interventions for the rehabilitation of offenders and
the prevention of crime and problem behavior. Recent work has focused on
correctional boot camps, domestic violence interventions,
incarceration-based drug treatment, and school-based prevention
programs. He was the 1999 recipient of the Marcia Guttentag award for
Early Promise as an Evaluator from the American Evaluation Association.
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