Full Schedule

8:30 AM - 10:00 AM CST

Plenary Session

10:15 AM - 11:15 AM CST

"We're Going to the Courthouse and We're Getting an Injunction": How to Evaluate Litigation Within Broader Advocacy Campaigns

Presenter: – Fine Gauge Strategy, LLC

Presenter: – Southern Poverty Law Center

Presenter: – TCC Group

Submitter: – Fine Gauge Strategy, LLC

Advocacy and Policy Change

10:15 AM - 11:15 AM CST

AI and (Empowerment) Evaluation: A Thought Partner, Bridge Builder, and Tool for Community Engagement

PD Workshop Presenter: – Fetterman & Associates

Presenter: – Fetterman & Associates

Facilitator: – Fetterman & Associates

Chair: – Fetterman & Associates

Presenter: – Nova Southeastern University

Submitter: – Fetterman & Associates

Collaborative, Participatory and Empowerment Evaluation

10:15 AM - 11:15 AM CST

Building a shared approach to climate finance impact measurement

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Submitter: – Impact investing

Social Finance

10:15 AM - 11:15 AM CST

Causal Chain Monitoring: Assessing the Opportunities and Challenges of a New Methodology for Evaluating Impact

Presenter: – Northeastern University

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Submitter: – Northeastern University

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Democracy and Governance

10:15 AM - 11:15 AM CST

Challenges Designing Community-Based Programs: Internal-, External-, Measurement-, and Statistical Conclusion Validity Considerations

PD Workshop Presenter: – United States Government Accountability Office

Presenter: – United States Government Accountability Office

Chair: – United States Government Accountability Office

Discussant: – United States Government Accountability Office

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Submitter: – United States Government Accountability Office

Presenter: – University of Connecticut

Government Evaluation

10:15 AM - 11:15 AM CST

Clients as Program and Evaluation Leaders: Lessons Learned from a Nonprofit in Shifting Power to Communities

Presenter: – LIFT Inc

Submitter: – LIFT Inc

Human Services Evaluation

10:15 AM - 11:15 AM CST

Collaborative Research Across Disciplines: Exploring Collaboration Between Evaluation and Market Research on a Large-Scale Initiative

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Internal Evaluation

10:15 AM - 11:15 AM CST

Empowering Arts Programs for Military-Connected Communities Through Evaluation, Technical Assistance, and Community Building

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Arts, Culture, and Museums

10:15 AM - 11:15 AM CST

Engaging Communities of Students with Autism: Analyzing the Impact of Robotics in Autism Spectrum Disorder Interventions Using Intensive Longitudinal Analysis and HLM

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Disabilities and Underrepresented Populations

10:15 AM - 11:15 AM CST

Four Types of Cost-Inclusive Evaluation and Nine Types of Findings: Which is Best?

Presenter: – American University

Submitter: – American University

Costs, Effectiveness, Benefits, and Economics

10:15 AM - 11:15 AM CST

How to shift to authentic community engagement through principles-focused evaluation

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Community Development

10:15 AM - 10:20 AM CST

9 Things Your Graphic Designer Wants You to Know About Communicating Effectively

Presenter: – Ohio University's Voinovich School of Leadership and Public Service

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Submitter: – Ohio University's Voinovich School of Leadership and Public Service

Data Visualization and Reporting

10:20 AM - 10:25 AM CST

Improving Evaluation Rigor: A Framework for Data Quality and Use in Observational Studies

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Submitter: – Virginia Tech

Program Theory and Theory-Driven Evaluation

10:25 AM - 10:30 AM CST

The Relationship Between Logic Models and Program Implementation Fidelity

Presenter: – Western Michigan University

Submitter: – Western Michigan University

Program Theory and Theory-Driven Evaluation

10:30 AM - 10:35 AM CST

"People Under the Heels of Oppression Should Be the Ones Leading": Using Ella Baker's Community Building Praxis for Innovative Strategic Planning and Youth Justice Coalition Building

Presenter: – UBUNTU Research and Evaluation

Submitter: – UBUNTU Research and Evaluation

Advocacy and Policy Change

10:40 AM - 10:45 AM CST

“From Academia to Evaluation: Observations of Evaluation Methodologies in Hawaiʻi from an Indigenous Studies Perspective”

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Indigenous Peoples in Evaluation

10:45 AM - 10:50 AM CST

Advancing Shared Evaluation Tools for Clinical and Translational Science Awards Programs

Presenter: – Center for Health Equity Research, University of North Carolina at Charlotte

Presenter: – University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill

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Presenter: – UNC Chapel Hill, Abacus

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Presenter: – University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

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Translational Research Evaluation

10:50 AM - 10:55 AM CST

AI Uses in Evaluation: Current Practices and Future Directions

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Presenter: – Faculty of Education, University of Ottawa

Submitter: – Faculty of Education, University of Ottawa

Research on Evaluation

10:55 AM - 11:00 AM CST

Applying Ecological Constructs in Evaluation

Presenter: – 4.669,,, Evaluation and Planning

Presenter: – University of Arizona

Submitter: – 4.669,,, Evaluation and Planning

Systems in Evaluation

11:00 AM - 11:05 AM CST

Because They Said So: Community Needs Assessments to Promote Engagement and Shared Leadership in Service Planning

Author: – Kaye Implementation & Evaluation

Submitter: – Kaye Implementation & Evaluation

Needs Assessment

11:05 AM - 11:10 AM CST

Between complexity and a hard place: Calculating a Return on Investment for Democracy and Governance Programs

PD Workshop Presenter: – Pact

Chair: – Pact

Presenter: – Pact

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Submitter: – Pact

Democracy and Governance

10:15 AM - 11:15 AM CST

Implementing and Adapting Evaluations In Complex, Shifting Environments

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University-Based Centers

10:15 AM - 11:15 AM CST

Reimagining Youth Justice Evaluation: A Community-Powered MEAL Approach

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Youth Focused Evaluation

10:15 AM - 11:15 AM CST

Sharing Leadership Through Publishing: Unpacking the Hidden Curriculum of Evaluation Publishing

Presenter: – University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign

Chair: – University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign

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Presenter: – Virginia Commonwealth University

Facilitator: – Virginia Commonwealth University

Presenter: – University of California, Los Angeles

Facilitator: – University of California, Los Angeles

Submitter: – University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign

Teaching of Evaluation

10:15 AM - 11:15 AM CST

Theory of Resilient Transformation to Overcome Failures and Political Opposition

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Submitter: – Utilization-Focused Blue Marble Evaluation

Program Theory and Theory-Driven Evaluation

10:15 AM - 11:15 AM CST

What’s new about AI? Emerging frameworks for designing, assessing, and evaluating AI tools and vendors and AI-enabled programs and evaluations

Presenter: – The MERL Tech Initiative

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Submitter: – The MERL Tech Initiative

Integrating Technology into Evaluation

11:30 AM - 12:30 PM CST

Adventures with AI for Data Viz

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Data Visualization and Reporting

11:30 AM - 12:30 PM CST

Building evaluation capacity in University Extension to better serve communities

Presenter: – Affiliation in Progress

Chair: – Affiliation in Progress

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Presenter: – University of California-Davis

Presenter: – University of Wisconsin-Madison

Submitter: – Affiliation in Progress

Extension Education Evaluation

11:30 AM - 12:30 PM CST

Collaborative Evaluation in Action: Sharing Leadership to Expand Access to Healthy Food for Families and Children in Denver, CO

Presenter: – CAI (Cicatelli Associates, Inc)

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Submitter: – CAI (Cicatelli Associates, Inc)

Cluster, Multi-site and Multi-level Evaluations

11:30 AM - 12:30 PM CST

Embracing Community Responsiveness and Equity on Evaluation Teams: A Collective Journey Toward Inclusive Practices

Facilitator: – ETR

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Submitter: – ETR

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Facilitator: – ETR

Evaluation Managers and Supervisors

11:30 AM - 12:30 PM CST

Engaging Rural STEM Programs With After Action Reviews (AARs)

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Leadership and Organizational Performance

11:30 AM - 12:30 PM CST

Evaluating Indigenous Food Sovereignty in Diabetes Programs: Advancing Culturally Responsive and Community-Driven Health Interventions

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Indigenous Peoples in Evaluation

11:30 AM - 12:30 PM CST

Evaluation or UX Research? Opportunities for Innovation, Collaboration, and Community Engagement

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Integrating Technology into Evaluation

11:30 AM - 12:30 PM CST

A Validation Study of the Opening Minds Provider Attitudes towards Opioid-Use Scale: Implications for Stigma Reduction Education Program Evaluation

Presenter: – University of Georgia

Extension Education Evaluation

11:30 AM - 12:30 PM CST

Building Evaluation Capacity Through Collective Impact Initiatives

Presenter: – University of Kentucky

Submitter: – University of Kentucky

Extension Education Evaluation

11:30 AM - 12:30 PM CST

Did we really make a difference? Revisiting findings of personal, interpersonal, and institutional change.

Presenter: – University of Nebraska-Lincoln

Presenter: – University of Nebraska, Lincoln

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Submitter: – University of Nebraska-Lincoln

Extension Education Evaluation

11:30 AM - 12:30 PM CST

Revisiting Bennett’s Hierarchy and Targeting Outcomes of Programs Model: Implications for Strengthening Program Development and Evaluation

Presenter: – Purdue University

Extension Education Evaluation

11:30 AM - 12:30 PM CST

Extension Evaluation Multipaper Session

11:30 AM - 12:30 PM CST

For Evaluators Who Dare Save The World

Facilitator: – Centerstone

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Use and Influence of Evaluation

11:30 AM - 12:30 PM CST

Harvesting Innovation: AI, Participation, and Visualizations in Outcome Harvesting

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International and Cross Cultural Evaluation

11:30 AM - 11:35 AM CST

Beyond Oversight: The Strategic Role of Internal Evaluators in Externally Led Evaluations

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Evaluation Managers and Supervisors

11:35 AM - 11:40 AM CST

Beyond Scores: Reimagining Student Success with Participatory Evaluation

Presenter: – School Education Department, Haryana, India

Submitter: – School Education Department, Haryana, India

Education Evaluation

11:40 AM - 11:45 AM CST

Beyond the Grantee Journey: Evaluating Systemic Change in Housing Innovation

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Presenter: – Enterprise Community Partners

Submitter: – Enterprise Community Partners

Systems in Evaluation

11:45 AM - 11:50 AM CST

Beyond Traditional Evaluation: Shared Leadership and Participatory Approaches in Georgia's Building Opportunities in Out-of-School Time (BOOST) Grants Program

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Education Evaluation

11:50 AM - 11:55 AM CST

Beyond Traditional Focus Groups

Presenter: – The Improve Group

Facilitator: – The Improve Group

Presenter: – The Improve Group

Facilitator: – The Improve Group

Submitter: – The Improve Group

Qualitative Methods

11:55 AM - 12:00 PM CST

Bridging evidence to decision making in Parliaments: The power of knowledge brokers

Presenter: – University of Cape Town/ Parliament of Uganda

Submitter: – University of Cape Town/ Parliament of Uganda

Use and Influence of Evaluation

12:00 PM - 12:05 PM CST

Bridging Policy and Practice: The Role of Evaluation Capacity Building in Shaping Evaluation Policy

Presenter: – University of Ottawa

Submitter: – University of Ottawa

Research on Evaluation

12:05 PM - 12:10 PM CST

Bridging the Gap: Strengthening Collaboration Between Evaluators, Early Childhood Program Administrators, and School Districts

Facilitator: – Public Health, University of Nebraska at Omaha

Discussant: – Buffett Early Childhood Institute

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Submitter: – university of nebraska at omaha

Education Evaluation

12:10 PM - 12:15 PM CST

Building Recovery Capital Collectively: A Comprehensive Program Evaluation Driven by Key Partners with Lived Experience

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Collaborative, Participatory and Empowerment Evaluation

12:15 PM - 12:20 PM CST

Building Relationships for Better Disaster Preparedness: A Network Analysis of a Novel Disaster Medicine and Public Health Ecosystem

Submitter: – Henry Jackson Foundation for the Advancement of Military Medicine, Inc.

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Disaster and Emergency Management Evaluation

12:20 PM - 12:25 PM CST

Communicating Evaluation in an Age of Scrutiny: How Narrative Can Build Trust

Presenter: – Deloitte

Facilitator: – Deloitte

Chair: – Deloitte Consulting

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Presenter: – Trewon Technologies, Inc

Facilitator: – Trewon Technologies, Inc

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Submitter: – Deloitte

Use and Influence of Evaluation

11:30 AM - 12:30 PM CST

Navigating Contested Waters: Teaching Evaluation for Social Change in Turbulent Times

Presenter: – University of Tennessee at Knoxville

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Submitter: – University of Tennessee at Knoxville

Teaching of Evaluation

11:30 AM - 12:30 PM CST

Organizational Learning and Evaluation Capacity Building Multipaper

Organizational Learning and Evaluation Capacity Building

11:30 AM - 12:30 PM CST

Developing Cybersecurity Evaluation-by-Design Framework

Presenter: – Virginia Tech

Submitter: – Virginia Tech

Author: – Virginia Tech

Organizational Learning and Evaluation Capacity Building

11:30 AM - 12:30 PM CST

Strengthening Voices, Strengthening Impact: AfrEA's Vision and Role for Integrated Stakeholder Engagement in Evaluation.

Presenter: – African Policy Centre (APC)

Submitter: – African Policy Centre (APC)

Organizational Learning and Evaluation Capacity Building

11:30 AM - 12:30 PM CST

The Gaps We Left: Understanding the Hidden Impact of Incomplete Evaluations

Presenter: – University of North Carolina - Wilmington

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Presenter: – Affiliation in Progress

Submitter: – University of North Carolina Wilmington

Organizational Learning and Evaluation Capacity Building

11:30 AM - 12:30 PM CST

Real-Life Applications of Logic Models: Engaging Community, Sharing Leadership

Presenter: – MFAN

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Submitter: – MFAN

Organizational Learning and Evaluation Capacity Building

11:30 AM - 12:30 PM CST

The Community Action Hub at ICH: Engaging with PWLE through a Participatory Action Research model

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Collaborative, Participatory and Empowerment Evaluation

11:30 AM - 12:30 PM CST

Transforming our Practice: Lessons Learned from Implementing Developmental Evaluation

Presenter: – BECOME

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Submitter: – BECOME

Nonprofit and Foundations

11:30 AM - 12:30 PM CST

Validity and Fairness of Assessment-based Information in Educational Evaluations: How Can “User-Centeredness” and “Stakeholder-Orientation” Help?

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Education Evaluation

11:30 AM - 12:30 PM CST

What Now? A Roadmap for Emerging Evaluators in a Changing World

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Presenter: – Fetterman & Associates

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Graduate Students and New Evaluators

2:30 PM - 3:30 PM CST

A Walk Through the Garden of Evaluation Approaches: Uses for Teaching, Capacity Building, and Practice

Presenter: – Western Michigan University

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Theories of Evaluation

2:30 PM - 3:30 PM CST

Before Boom: Lessons Learned from Evaluating a Targeted Violence / Terrorism Prevention Program

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Disaster and Emergency Management Evaluation

2:30 PM - 3:30 PM CST

Breaking Barriers: Transforming the RFP and Contracting Processes

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Presenter: – Houston Endowment

Presenter: – University of Mississippi, Center for Research Evaluation

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Submitter: – Houston Endowment

Independent Consulting

2:30 PM - 3:30 PM CST

Centering Voices of the Community in Evaluation Design, Reporting, and Advocacy: Lessons from a Statewide Early Childhood Care and Education Needs Assessment

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Presenter: – Kansas State University - Office of Educational Innovation and Evaluation

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Presenter: – Kansas Child Care Training Opportunities, Kansas State University

Submitter: – Kansas State University - Office of Educational Innovation and Evaluation

Needs Assessment

2:30 PM - 3:30 PM CST

Controversies in Implementing Evidence-Based Policies in Behavioral Health.

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Behavioral Health

2:30 PM - 3:30 PM CST

Decolonizing Evaluation: Using an Equitable Evaluation Toolkit to Conduct Wide-Ranging Evaluations that Center BIPOC Needs and Voices

PD Workshop Presenter: – Ecotrust

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Submitter: – Ecotrust

Collaborative, Participatory and Empowerment Evaluation

2:30 PM - 3:30 PM CST

Elevando Voces: Participants as Knowledge Holders Of Equitable Data Collection Efforts in the Southwest

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LatinX Responsive Evaluation Discourse

2:30 PM - 3:30 PM CST

Engaging with Communities and Primary Care Practices: Evaluating CTR Practice-Based Research Network (PBRN) models

Chair: – University of Delaware

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Submitter: – University of Delaware

Translational Research Evaluation

2:30 PM - 3:30 PM CST

From Bureaucrat to Evaluator: Beyond Compliance to Real Impact

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STEM Education and Training

2:30 PM - 3:30 PM CST

How reporting can serve as a gateway for introducing MEL - a case from research infrastructure funding

Presenter: – Novo Nordisk Foundation

Chair: – Novo Nordisk Foundation

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Submitter: – Novo Nordisk Foundation

Research, Technology, and Development Evaluation

2:35 PM - 2:40 PM CST

Creating a Culture of Data: Bringing Colleagues into the Evaluation Conversation

Presenter: – PBLWorks

Submitter: – PBLWorks

Nonprofit and Foundations

2:40 PM - 2:45 PM CST

Demons of an Evaluator: Confronting Bias in Gender-Based Evaluations

Presenter: – Women for Women International

Submitter: – Women for Women International

Nonprofit and Foundations

2:50 PM - 2:55 PM CST

Due Process in Immigration Courts: Insights from Removal Proceedings

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Government Evaluation

2:55 PM - 3:00 PM CST

Elevating Tsaatan voices: Sowing the seeds of Indigenous Evaluation in Mongolia

Presenter: – Mongolian Evaluation Association

Submitter: – Mongolian Evaluation Association

Indigenous Peoples in Evaluation

3:00 PM - 3:05 PM CST

Emerging Evaluators in the Digital Arena

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Graduate Students and New Evaluators

3:05 PM - 3:10 PM CST

Engaging Communities through the Arts: Lessons from a Three-Year Evaluation of the Gilmore Piano Program

Presenter: – Western Michigan University

Submitter: – Western Michigan University

Arts, Culture, and Museums

3:10 PM - 3:15 PM CST

Engaging Community Members in the Evaluation Life Cycle: Strategies Evaluators can use to Bolster Participation and Impact

Presenter: – University of Michigan

Submitter: – University of Michigan

Collaborative, Participatory and Empowerment Evaluation

3:15 PM - 3:20 PM CST

Engaging Youth in City Planning: High School Perspectives on Redding’s Future Vision

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Youth Focused Evaluation

3:20 PM - 3:25 PM CST

Enhancing Precision in Extension Program Outcome Measurement: Applications of Rasch Analysis to the Validation of the Healthy Choices for Your Recovering Body (HCYRB) Questionnaire

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Presenter: – University of Kentucky

Discussant: – University of Kentucky

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Extension Education Evaluation

3:25 PM - 3:30 PM CST

Enhancing Prison Staff Well-Being: A Mixed-Methods Needs/Assets Assessment for Systemic Improvement

Presenter: – Claremont Graduate University

Submitter: – Claremont Graduate University

Needs Assessment

2:30 PM - 3:30 PM CST

Landscape Collage: Crafting a Picture of the Evaluation Microsystem in the U.S.South

Presenter: – Hatch Creative Strategy

Chair: – Hatch Creative Strategy

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Submitter: – Hatch Creative Strategy

Community Development

2:30 PM - 3:30 PM CST

Making Learning Stick: 3 Proven Training Strategies for Engagement and Retention

Presenter: – Custom Professional Learning LLC

Submitter: – Custom Professional Learning LLC

Teaching of Evaluation

2:30 PM - 3:30 PM CST

Mixed Methods Evaluation Multipaper Session

2:30 PM - 3:30 PM CST

Adaptive Scenario Simulation (AdSS) Model for Counterfactual Estimation

Presenter: – The Evaluation Center, Western Michigan University

Submitter: – The Evaluation Center, Western Michigan University

Mixed Methods Evaluation

2:30 PM - 3:30 PM CST

Assessing Supply Chain Data Quality and Use for Decision-Making: A Realist Evaluation of Maternal, Newborn, and Child Health Commodities in Nigeria

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Mixed Methods Evaluation

2:30 PM - 3:30 PM CST

Critical Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA): A QuantCrit Approach for Evaluating School Performance

Presenter: – University of Cincinnati

Submitter: – University of Cincinnati

Mixed Methods Evaluation

2:30 PM - 3:30 PM CST

Hispanic College Student Mental Health: Exploring Resilience Outcomes Through a Mixed Methods Evaluation

Presenter: – Public Policy Research Institute, Texas A&M University

Submitter: – Public Policy Research Institute, Texas A&M University

Mixed Methods Evaluation

2:30 PM - 3:30 PM CST

Sales vs. Science: Impact Evaluation at a crossroads

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Nonprofit and Foundations

2:30 PM - 3:30 PM CST

Testing the Waters: Getting Comfortable with AI Use in Evaluation

Presenter: – Ripple Effect

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Presenter: – Deloitte Consulting

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Submitter: – Ripple Effect

Use and Influence of Evaluation

2:30 PM - 3:30 PM CST

Time Travel as Methodological Practice: Reimagining Evaluation Through Sankofa and Afrofuturism to Engage Community and Build Shared Leadership

Presenter: – UBUNTU Research and Evaluation

Submitter: – UBUNTU Research and Evaluation

Collaborative, Participatory and Empowerment Evaluation

2:30 PM - 3:30 PM CST

Using Rich Context Mapping to Decode the Silicon Savannah by Making Healthcare Investments Equitable, Impactful and Accessible Across the Continent

Presenter: – William Davidson Institute at the University of Michigan

Facilitator: – William Davidson Institute at the University of Michigan

Discussant: – William Davidson Institute at the University of Michigan

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Submitter: – William Davidson Institute at the University of Michigan

Systems in Evaluation

2:30 PM - 3:30 PM CST

Youth Focused Evaluation

2:30 PM - 3:30 PM CST

Empowering Youth to Lead Listening Sessions on Principles of Meaningful Youth Engagement in Health Programming

Presenter: – ETR

Submitter: – ETR

Presenter: – ETR

Youth Focused Evaluation

2:30 PM - 3:30 PM CST

Enhanced Real-Time High Velocity Data Collection and Evaluation from Direct Participants Through a Digital Monitoring and Evaluation System for Global Youth Development

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Submitter: – World Vision Canada

Youth Focused Evaluation

2:30 PM - 3:30 PM CST

Importance of engaging the voices of youth stakeholders: Lessons learnt from developing and validating a culturally responsive Caribbean measure of the Five Cs of positive youth development (PYD)

Presenter: – Oklahoma State University Postdoctoral

Submitter: – Oklahoma State University Postdoctoral

Youth Focused Evaluation

2:30 PM - 3:30 PM CST

Introducing a Youth Evaluator Role to Tims Camps: Discussing Benefits, Challenges, and Sharing the Youth's Experience

Presenter: – Tim Hortons Foundation Camps

Youth Focused Evaluation

3:45 PM - 4:45 PM CST

"Truth Under Pressure: Evaluation, Fake News, and the Political Capture of Knowledge"

PD Workshop Presenter: – Universidad de San Carlos de Guatemala

Submitter: – Universidad de San Carlos de Guatemala

Democracy and Governance

3:45 PM - 4:45 PM CST

Assessing Impact in Collaborative Efforts for Social Change

Presenter: – Vanderbilt University

Submitter: – Vanderbilt University

Health Evaluation

3:45 PM - 4:45 PM CST

Beyond Objectivity: Exploring Autoethnography as a Tool for Evaluation

Presenter: – Qualitative Advantage, LLC

Qualitative Methods

3:45 PM - 4:45 PM CST

Collaborative Evaluation: Experiences and Lessons Learned

Collaborative, Participatory and Empowerment Evaluation

3:45 PM - 4:45 PM CST

Centering Attention Where It Counts: A Collaborative Evaluation Model for Meaningful Use of Evidence

Presenter: – WSTERN MICHIGAN UNIVERSITY

Presenter: – University of South Florida

Presenter: – Western Michigan University

Submitter: – WSTERN MICHIGAN UNIVERSITY

Collaborative, Participatory and Empowerment Evaluation

3:45 PM - 4:45 PM CST

Collaborative Evaluation: Engaging Communities Through Data Walks and Narrative Methods; Paper (to be presented as a 15 minute PowerPoint presentation in a Multi-paper session

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Collaborative, Participatory and Empowerment Evaluation

3:45 PM - 4:45 PM CST

Enhancing Crisis Preparedness and Resilience Through Collaborative Evaluation: An Organizational Involvement Approach

PD Workshop Presenter: – The Evaluation Center, Western Michigan University

Presenter: – The Evaluation Center, Western Michigan University

Presenter: – AEA

Presenter: – University of South Florida

Submitter: – The Evaluation Center, Western Michigan University

Collaborative, Participatory and Empowerment Evaluation

3:45 PM - 4:45 PM CST

Keeping Ethics in the Forefront: Using the Model for Collaborative Evaluations to Ensure Rigorous Evaluations

PD Workshop Presenter: – Florida SouthWestern Collegiate

Presenter: – University of South Florida

Submitter: – Florida SouthWestern Collegiate

Collaborative, Participatory and Empowerment Evaluation

3:45 PM - 4:45 PM CST

Confronting hard truths about poverty: Evaluating narrative change impact for racial economic justice in the South

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Submitter: – Southern Poverty Law Center

Feminist Issues in Evaluation

3:45 PM - 4:45 PM CST

Empowerment Evaluation and Stakeholder Involvement: Insights, Reflections, and Implications

Collaborative, Participatory and Empowerment Evaluation

3:45 PM - 4:45 PM CST

Enhancing Marginalized Perspectives: Fortifying Community Involvement and Leadership within a Drug Court Initiative

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Collaborative, Participatory and Empowerment Evaluation

3:45 PM - 4:45 PM CST

Introducing Research Advocates and a Lived Expert Bill of Rights to Support Safety in Child Welfare Evaluation

Presenter: – Kaye Implementation and Evaluation

Submitter: – Kaye Implementation and Evaluation

Collaborative, Participatory and Empowerment Evaluation

3:45 PM - 4:45 PM CST

Operationalizing Equity: Centering in Communities

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Submitter: – University of California, Irvine

Collaborative, Participatory and Empowerment Evaluation

3:45 PM - 4:45 PM CST

Sharpening the Vision: Advancing Equity in Implementation through a Bifocal Lens

Collaborative, Participatory and Empowerment Evaluation

3:45 PM - 4:45 PM CST

Engaging communities through participatory systems mapping to identify changes in the public health data ecosystem

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Systems in Evaluation

3:45 PM - 3:50 PM CST

Evaluating Systems Change: Testing Assumptions, Reflecting, and Building Capacity

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Organizational Learning and Evaluation Capacity Building

3:55 PM - 4:00 PM CST

Evaluation of Vermont’s Domestic Violence Accountability Programming

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Government Evaluation

4:00 PM - 4:05 PM CST

Evaluation’s Echoes: Tips for communicating evaluation findings so key take-aways resonate beyond the core audience

PD Workshop Presenter: – ICF

Presenter: – ICF

Submitter: – ICF

Use and Influence of Evaluation

4:05 PM - 4:10 PM CST

Evolving Excellence: Leveraging Standard Operating Procedures

Presenter: – University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

Presenter: – University of Illinois Urbana-Chamapaign

Leadership and Organizational Performance

4:10 PM - 4:15 PM CST

How a Shared Learning Agenda Can Build Collective Understanding of an Innovation Support Process

PD Workshop Presenter: – ETR

Submitter: – ETR

Mixed Methods Evaluation

4:15 PM - 4:20 PM CST

I don't “agree” and I'm not neutral: the case against neutral and naked "agree” or “disagree" options in Likert survey items

Submitter: – Kiaer Research

Quantitative Methods: Theory and Design

4:25 PM - 4:30 PM CST

Incorporating AI Tools for Evaluations that Share Leadership and Support Communities

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Presenter: – The Rucks Group, LLC

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Integrating Technology into Evaluation

4:30 PM - 4:35 PM CST

Justice-focused strategies for re-envisioning STEM workforce development pathways for youth through inclusive interactions with an adult professional network of support

PD Workshop Presenter: – Science Museum of Minnesota

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Submitter: – Science Museum of Minnesota

STEM Education and Training

4:35 PM - 4:40 PM CST

Kindergarten Readiness for All: A Community Dialogue Through Data Gallery Walk.

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Education Evaluation

4:40 PM - 4:45 PM CST

Listening to Parents, Transforming Communities: A Needs Assessment for One Knox

Presenter: – University of Tennessee, Knoxville

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Graduate Students and New Evaluators

3:45 PM - 4:45 PM CST

Intergenerational Perspectives on how Evaluation must ADAPT to meet the current moment

PD Workshop Presenter: – Utilization-Focused Evaluation

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Submitter: – Utilization-Focused Evaluation

Use and Influence of Evaluation

3:45 PM - 4:45 PM CST

Leadership and Organizational Performance Multipaper

Leadership and Organizational Performance

3:45 PM - 4:45 PM CST

Leadership in the five AEA domains: A community discussion to share, develop, and enact servant leadership for better evaluation practices

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Leadership and Organizational Performance

3:45 PM - 4:45 PM CST

Reimagining Leadership Transitions: The National Leaders of Color Succession Planning Initiative as a Model for Equity-Driven Evaluation

Presenter: – MUSE Research

Submitter: – MUSE Research

Leadership and Organizational Performance

3:45 PM - 4:45 PM CST

Superpower to Success: Leading People, Teams, and Yourself in Today’s Landscape

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Leadership and Organizational Performance

3:45 PM - 4:45 PM CST

Localization and Capacity-Building: Empowering Local Partners Through Adaptive MERL Systems

Facilitator: – Women for Women International

Submitter: – Women for Women International

Nonprofit and Foundations

3:45 PM - 4:45 PM CST

Member checking for participant ownership—and for fun!

Presenter: – Michigan Fitness Foundation

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Submitter: – Michigan Fitness Foundation

Mixed Methods Evaluation

3:45 PM - 4:45 PM CST

Open Databases and Misinterpretation: Balancing Access and Accuracy in the Age of Information/Digital World

Presenter: – Auburn University

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Presenter: – Auburn University

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Submitter: – Auburn University

Use and Influence of Evaluation

3:45 PM - 4:45 PM CST

Out in the Open: A multi-state perspective on LGBTQIA+ and Two-spirit data and how evaluators and researchers can support its collection

Presenter: – data2insight

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Discussant: – Apex Evaluation

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Submitter: – data2insight

LGBTQ+ Voices in Evaluation

3:45 PM - 4:45 PM CST

Participatory Evaluation: Participants Engagement in the Evaluation Process

Collaborative, Participatory and Empowerment Evaluation

3:45 PM - 4:45 PM CST

Applying a Transformative Participatory Evaluation Design with Youth Leaders: Recommendations and Lessons Learned for Sharing Power and Informing Social Change through Program Evaluation

Presenter: – Everett Evaluation

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Collaborative, Participatory and Empowerment Evaluation

3:45 PM - 4:45 PM CST

From Voices to Visuals: Using Ripple Effect Mapping with Youth and Adult Programs

PD Workshop Presenter: – LSU AgCenter

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Submitter: – LSU AgCenter

Collaborative, Participatory and Empowerment Evaluation

3:45 PM - 4:45 PM CST

The Impacts of Participatory Deliberations and Debates on Democracy and Polarization: experimental evidence across multiple international contexts

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Collaborative, Participatory and Empowerment Evaluation

3:45 PM - 4:45 PM CST

Who all gone be there? Engaging Providers as a Critical First Step in Participatory Evaluation

Collaborative, Participatory and Empowerment Evaluation

3:45 PM - 4:45 PM CST

Reimagining Science Communication Through Community-Centered Evaluation

PD Workshop Presenter: – UBUNTU Research & Evaluation

Presenter: – UBUNTU Research & Evaluation

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Submitter: – UBUNTU Research & Evaluation

Multiethnic Issues in Evaluation

3:45 PM - 4:45 PM CST

Relationship Building Among Collaborating Firms: Harnessing Shared Leadership to Empower Community Change

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Collaborative, Participatory and Empowerment Evaluation

3:45 PM - 4:45 PM CST

Seeing Like an Organization: How to Avoid the Failures of Corrupting Measures

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Presenter: – Effect X LLC

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Quantitative Methods: Theory and Design

3:45 PM - 4:45 PM CST

Using AI to Create Testing Personas for Survey Design in Dynamic Populations

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Integrating Technology into Evaluation

5:00 PM - 6:00 PM CST

Arts, Culture, and Museums Multipaper

Arts, Culture, and Museums

5:00 PM - 6:00 PM CST

Emerging Practice in the Evaluation of Cultural Heritage Projects: Community Engagement in Conservation

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Arts, Culture, and Museums

5:00 PM - 6:00 PM CST

Leading in Harmony: How Black Church Music Builds Workforce Skills and Inspires Leadership

Presenter: – MUSE Research

Submitter: – MUSE Research

Arts, Culture, and Museums

5:00 PM - 6:00 PM CST

Practicing Collective Responsibility: Culturally Responsive Evaluation in Community Art Spaces

Presenter: – UBUNTU Research and Evaluation

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Submitter: – UBUNTU Research and Evaluation

Arts, Culture, and Museums

5:00 PM - 6:00 PM CST

Breaking the Mold: Solar Sister's Decentralized Approach to Environmental Sustainability

Presenter: – Solar Sister

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Submitter: – Solar Sister

Environmental Program Evaluation

5:00 PM - 6:00 PM CST

Bridging the Evidence to Practice Gap: Engaging Practitioners in Participatory Evidence Reviews and Practice Guides

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Government Evaluation

5:00 PM - 6:00 PM CST

Broadening the Lens of Evaluation: Approaches Supporting Inclusive STEM Education Environments

STEM Education and Training

5:00 PM - 6:00 PM CST

Effectiveness of Bystander Intervention Training Tailored to STEM Disciplines: Immediate and Lasting Results from ADVANCEGeo Partnership

Presenter: – University of Wisconsin-Madison

Submitter: – University of Wisconsin-Madison

STEM Education and Training

5:00 PM - 6:00 PM CST

Evaluating Role Demands and Identifying the Needs of Instructional Assistants: Designing instruments to collect meaningful data about an overlooked population of educators.

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STEM Education and Training

5:00 PM - 6:00 PM CST

Fostering STEM Engagement through Evaluation: Unveiling Key Predictors of Self-Efficacy and Career Interest

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STEM Education and Training

5:00 PM - 6:00 PM CST

Uncovering Unexpected Outcomes - How to Capitalize on Distributed Leadership

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Presenter: – Goshen Consulting

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STEM Education and Training

5:00 PM - 6:00 PM CST

Building Innovative Systems for Learning at a New(er) Foundation in the Face of Uncertainty: A case study of how The Tepper Foundation built learning systems while quadrupling in size over 4 years

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Evaluation Managers and Supervisors

5:00 PM - 6:00 PM CST

Catalytic Impact: How to Measure Indirect Contributions to System-Level Change | Lessons from a Global Development Community of Practice

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Presenter: – Results for Development

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Submitter: – Results for Development

Systems in Evaluation

5:00 PM - 6:00 PM CST

College Access Programs Multipaper

College Access Programs

5:00 PM - 6:00 PM CST

Harvesting Change: A Demonstration of Outcome Harvesting in Equity-Focused Leadership Development Evaluation

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Submitter: – Reflect Evaluation

Leadership and Organizational Performance

5:00 PM - 5:05 PM CST

Playing with Purpose: Using Games to Teach Evaluation Methods and Center Community Voice

Presenter: – Aurora Research Institute

Submitter: – Aurora Research Institute

Teaching of Evaluation

5:05 PM - 5:10 PM CST

Quantifying Quality: Assessing the Condition of Public Spaces (or Playgrounds) in a Systematic Way

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Community Development

5:10 PM - 5:15 PM CST

Strengthening Causal Inference in Extension Evaluations: Practical Application of Propensity Score Matching with Secondary Data

Presenter: – Virginia Tech

Submitter: – Virginia Tech

Extension Education Evaluation

5:15 PM - 5:20 PM CST

The Power of Why: Using Vulnerability and Collaboration to Identify Purpose, Build Relationships, and Set, Measure, and Attain S.M.A.R.T. Goals

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Collaborative, Participatory and Empowerment Evaluation

5:20 PM - 5:25 PM CST

Understanding and Measuring Shifts in Translational Science Abilities

Presenter: – University of California, Davis

Submitter: – University of California, Davis

Translational Research Evaluation

5:25 PM - 5:30 PM CST

Using Playlist Creation as a Creative Evaluation Practice

PD Workshop Presenter: – Milwaukee Evaluation

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Submitter: – Milwaukee Evaluation

Mixed Methods Evaluation

5:30 PM - 5:35 PM CST

Using PRISM (the Practical Robust Implementation and Sustainability Model) as a Framework for Identifying Community and Contextual Factors that Enhance RCT Interpretation

Presenter: – ETR

Submitter: – ETR

Health Evaluation

5:35 PM - 5:40 PM CST

Voices Unheard: Rethinking Reporting Frequencies in Qualitative Data

Presenter: – TCC Group

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Submitter: – TCC Group

Qualitative Methods

5:40 PM - 5:45 PM CST

Washington LGBTQ+ Survey: A historic queer- and trans-led research study amplifying LGBTQIA+ and Two-spirit voices to legislators and policy makers

Presenter: – data2insight

Submitter: – data2insight

LGBTQ+ Voices in Evaluation

5:45 PM - 5:50 PM CST

When the evaluator becomes the participant: what we learned from EC3

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Presenter: – University of Massachusetts Lowell

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Submitter: – CEPR/Indiana University

Organizational Learning and Evaluation Capacity Building

5:50 PM - 5:55 PM CST

You, Me, and ChatGPT: Best Practices for Teaching Artificial Intelligence (AI) Literacy in the Evaluation Classroom.

Presenter: – University of Alaska Anchorage

Submitter: – University of Alaska Anchorage

Teaching of Evaluation

5:55 PM - 6:00 PM CST

Your AI Needs a Logic Model: Prompt Engineering for Smarter Outputs

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Integrating Technology into Evaluation

5:00 PM - 6:00 PM CST

Independent Consulting Multipaper

Independent Consulting

5:00 PM - 6:00 PM CST

Indigenous Peoples in Evaluation Multipaper

Indigenous Peoples in Evaluation

5:00 PM - 6:00 PM CST

Decolonizing Philanthropy: Co-Creating A Transformational Indigenous Learning Strategy at the American Indian College Fund

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Indigenous Peoples in Evaluation

5:00 PM - 6:00 PM CST

Engaging Native Language and Culture in Early Childhood Education through Culturally Responsive Evaluation

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Indigenous Peoples in Evaluation

5:00 PM - 6:00 PM CST

Healing Tides: Weaving Culture, Place, Self, and Community for Collective Healing and Impact Among NHPI Organizations

PD Workshop Presenter: – Ng-Osorio Consulting LLC

Submitter: – Ng-Osorio Consulting LLC

Indigenous Peoples in Evaluation

5:00 PM - 6:00 PM CST

The nexus between modern climate information services and indigenous knowledge system

Presenter: – Center for Learning on Evaluation And Results - Anglophone Africa

Submitter: – Center for Learning on Evaluation And Results - Anglophone Africa

Indigenous Peoples in Evaluation

5:00 PM - 6:00 PM CST

Interactive Methods for Evaluating Power and Decision-making in Intergenerational Organizations

Presenter: – AEQUA Strategies LLC

Facilitator: – AEQUA Strategies LLC

Submitter: – AEQUA Strategies LLC

Youth Focused Evaluation

5:00 PM - 6:00 PM CST

Logic models: Prioritizing process over product

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Organizational Learning and Evaluation Capacity Building

5:00 PM - 6:00 PM CST

Preparing Students for Careers in Social Impact Design & Evaluation

Presenter: – Vanderbilt University

Facilitator: – Vanderbilt University

Submitter: – Vanderbilt University

Social Finance

5:00 PM - 6:00 PM CST

Reflective Analysis of an Evaluation of an Initiative Focused on Increasing Capital Access for Healthy Food Entrepreneurs of Color

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Collaborative, Participatory and Empowerment Evaluation

5:00 PM - 6:00 PM CST

Reimagining Evidence: Ethical Innovation with Synthetic Data in Collaborative Evaluation

PD Workshop Presenter: – WSTERN MICHIGAN UNIVERSITY

Submitter: – WSTERN MICHIGAN UNIVERSITY

Collaborative, Participatory and Empowerment Evaluation

5:00 PM - 6:00 PM CST

Research on Evaluation Multipaper

Research on Evaluation

5:00 PM - 6:00 PM CST

"People don't care how much you know until they know how much you care": New research on how evaluation audience members respond to negative findings

Presenter: – Cobblestone Applied Research & Evaluation

Submitter: – Cobblestone Applied Research & Evaluation

Research on Evaluation

5:00 PM - 6:00 PM CST

Following the Money: A Decade of Foundation Evaluation Funding (2013-2022)

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Presenter: – University of California, Los Angeles

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Research on Evaluation

5:00 PM - 6:00 PM CST

From Plan to Product: A Case Study of Evaluation Implementation Fidelity in a large-scale NIH Evaluation

PD Workshop Presenter: – University of California, Los Angeles

Submitter: – University of California, Los Angeles

Research on Evaluation

5:00 PM - 6:00 PM CST

Mapping the field’s knowledge base: A bibliometric analysis of evaluation thought leaders, authorship patterns and profiles, and connections across scholar communities

Presenter: – Faculty of Education, University of Ottawa

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Research on Evaluation

5:00 PM - 6:00 PM CST

Mind Your Space: A Research on Evaluation Study on Facilitating with Power Dynamics in Mind within Virtual and In-Person Spaces

Presenter: – UCLA

Submitter: – UCLA

Research on Evaluation

5:00 PM - 6:00 PM CST

Sharing Responsibility for Culturally Responsive Evaluation: Graduate Education Diversity Internship (GEDI) in a Community-Serving Nonprofit Organization

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Graduate Students and New Evaluators

5:00 PM - 6:00 PM CST

Shifting Power in Evaluation: A Case Study Model for Nonprofit Learning

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Organizational Learning and Evaluation Capacity Building

6:00 PM - 7:30 PM CST

Poster Exhibit, TIG Fair, & Reception