Full Schedule

8:00 AM – 4:00 PM ET

Registration Open

Location: JW Grand Foyer East

9:00 AM – 4:00 PM ET

1 - Principles-Focused Developmental Evaluation

Professional Development Workshop: Additional Fee Required

Location: White River Ballroom C

Organizational Learning & Evaluation Capacity Building

9:00 AM – 4:00 PM ET

2 - Building Evaluation Capacity in Organizations

Location: White River Ballroom D

Organizational Learning & Evaluation Capacity Building

9:00 AM – 4:00 PM ET

3 - Trauma-Sensitive Research and Evaluation (TSRE): Why and How Trauma Stories Matter

Location: 304

PD Workshop Presenter: – RJAE Consulting

Independent Consulting

9:00 AM – 4:00 PM ET

4 - Storytelling as game changer - From dry data to impactful advocacy using Agile project management approach

Location: 305

PD Workshop Presenter: – IJM

PD Workshop Presenter: – Performance Management

Integrating Technology into Evaluation

9:00 AM – 4:00 PM ET

5 - Using Propensity Score Methods to Empower the Story of Program Evaluation

Location: 306

PD Workshop Presenter: – University of Central Florida

Quantitative Methods: Theory and Design

9:00 AM – 4:00 PM ET

7 - Narrative inquiry and sensemaking : Working with micro-narratives for monitoring, evaluation and learning in complex programs - An introduction to the practice of Sensemaker

Location: 302

PD Workshop Presenter: – Voices That Count

Systems in Evaluation

9:00 AM – 4:00 PM ET

8 - Consulting 101: An introductory workshop for evaluators who want to start consulting practices

Location: 303

PD Workshop Presenter: – Goshen Consulting

PD Workshop Presenter: – Keene Insights

Independent Consulting

9:00 AM – 4:00 PM ET

9 - Scaling Impact: New Ways to Plan, Manage, and Evaluate Scaling

Location: 203

PD Workshop Presenter: – Gargani + Company

PD Workshop Presenter: – International Development Research Centre

International and Cross Cultural Evaluation

9:00 AM – 4:00 PM ET

10 - No More Crappy Surveys: Best Practices in Survey Planning, Design, Analysis, and Reporting

Location: White River Ballroom B

PD Workshop Presenter: – Emory Centers for Public Health Training and Technical Assistance

PD Workshop Presenter: – Project Y Evaluation Services, LLC

PD Workshop Presenter: – Center for Program Evaluation and Quality Improvement, Emory Centers for Public Health Training and Technical Assistance

Quantitative Methods: Theory and Design

9:00 AM – 4:00 PM ET

12 - Qualitative Inquiry in Evaluation: An Introduction to Core Concepts and Data Collection Methods

Location: 202

PD Workshop Presenter: – Jennifer Jewiss Consulting LLC

Qualitative Methods

9:00 AM – 4:00 PM ET

13 - Making causality visible amid complexity: Approaches and tools for causal understanding that can be applied in complex, dynamic contexts

Location: White River Ballroom A

PD Workshop Presenter: – PolicySolve

PD Workshop Presenter: – Freelance

PD Workshop Presenter: – Bath SDR Ltd

PD Workshop Presenter: – University of Bath

PD Workshop Presenter: – Institute of Development Studies - Centre for Development Impact

PD Workshop Presenter: – Institute for Peace and Development

Nonprofit and Foundations

9:00 AM – 4:00 PM ET

14 - Drawing on Complexity Science to Design and Execute Evaluation

Location: 204

PD Workshop Presenter: – 2279...Evaluation and Planning

Systems in Evaluation

9:00 AM – 4:00 PM ET

15 - Strategies for Cleaning Your Evaluation Data Using Excel, R, and SPSS

Location: 205

PD Workshop Presenter: – The University of Tennessee, Knoxville

PD Workshop Presenter: – University of Tennessee, Knoxville

Quantitative Methods: Theory and Design

9:00 AM – 4:00 PM ET

16 - An introduction to Arts-Based Methods for Evaluation: Exploring Embodied Wisdom with Collage and Body Mapping

Location: 206

PD Workshop Presenter: – AND implementation

Feminist Issues in Evaluation

9:00 AM – 4:00 PM ET

18 - Developing a Boundary Story for Your Evaluation

Location: 313

PD Workshop Presenter: – Theory Action Group

Systems in Evaluation

9:00 AM – 4:00 PM ET

19 - Once upon a program: Using the the SCM to tell a program's story

Location: 314

PD Workshop Presenter: – Western Michigan University

PD Workshop Presenter: – Brinkerhoff Evaluation Institute

Organizational Learning & Evaluation Capacity Building

9:00 AM – 4:00 PM ET

20 - Facilitation Matters: Techniques for Evaluators

Location: 310

PD Workshop Presenter: – Center for Research Evaluation

Organizational Learning & Evaluation Capacity Building

9:00 AM – 4:00 PM ET

23 - The Power of Stories in Conflict-Management and Negotiation

Location: 309

PD Workshop Presenter: – .

PD Workshop Presenter: – UNC Greensboro

Graduate Student and New Evaluators

9:00 AM – 4:00 PM ET

24 - Making it Real: Systems Thinking for Evaluation Practice

Location: 201

PD Workshop Presenter: – Pathfinder Evaluation and Consulting

Systems in Evaluation