Full Schedule

8:30 AM - 9:30 AM CST

Advancing Research Methods: Innovations in Measurement, Modeling, and Meta-Analysis

Location: 2201

Quantitative Methods: Theory and Design

8:30 AM - 8:45 AM CST

Machine Learning methods for handling missing covariates in meta-analysis

Location: 2201

Presenter: – University of Central Florida

Co-Presenter: – University of Central Florida

Quantitative Methods: Theory and Design

8:45 AM - 9:00 AM CST

Method variance in scales due to negatively worded items

Location: 2201

Presenter:

Quantitative Methods: Theory and Design

9:00 AM - 9:15 AM CST

Small Sample SEM Estimators for (Quasi-) Experiments With Complex Structures

Location: 2201

PD Workshop Presenter: – University of Cincinnai

Author: – University of Cincinnai

Presenter:

Presenter: – University of Cincinnati

Presenter:

Quantitative Methods: Theory and Design

8:30 AM - 9:30 AM CST

Building Capacity and Shared Leadership to Advance Health Equity through the Rhode Island HEZ Training and Technical Assistance Program

Location: 2502 A

Presenter: – RI Department of Health, Brown University

Presenter:

Community Development

8:30 AM - 9:30 AM CST

Building Evaluation Capacity Through AI-Enhanced Learning and Development Techniques

Location: 2502 B

Presenter: – University of Arizona

Author:

Internal Evaluation

8:30 AM - 9:30 AM CST

Costs, Effectiveness, Benefits, and Economics Multipaper

Location: 2205

Costs, Effectiveness, Benefits, and Economics

8:30 AM - 8:45 AM CST

Cost-Effectiveness Analysis of Customer Churn and High-Value Customer Identification Using Random Forest on Online Retail Data

Location: 2205

Presenter: – University of Central Florida

Presenter:

Presenter: – University of Central Florida

Costs, Effectiveness, Benefits, and Economics

8:45 AM - 9:00 AM CST

Sharing Knowledge, Preparing Next-Generation Leaders: The Mentee-Mentor Initiative for Cost-Inclusive Evaluators

Location: 2205

Facilitator: – American University

Costs, Effectiveness, Benefits, and Economics

9:00 AM - 9:15 AM CST

Understanding the Texas HPV Vaccination Program: A Data-Driven Evaluation of Health Outcomes and Cost-Effectiveness

Location: 2205

Presenter:

Costs, Effectiveness, Benefits, and Economics

8:30 AM - 9:30 AM CST

Empowering Diverse Voices: Applications of Culturally Responsive Evaluation in Various Programs

Location: 3501 G

Facilitator: – University of Florida

Discussant: – University of Florida

Presenter: – University of Nebraska-Lincoln

Facilitator: – University of Nebraska-Lincoln

Presenter: – University of Nevada Reno

Facilitator: – University of Nevada Reno

Presenter:

Facilitator:

Facilitator: – University of California-Davis

Chair: – University of California-Davis

Facilitator: – University of California, Merced

Chair: – University of California, Merced

Extension Education Evaluation

8:30 AM - 9:30 AM CST

Engaging Community in Concepts of Program Fidelity and Implementation Evaluation

Location: 2203

Presenter: – FIRST

Chair: – FIRST

Presenter: – EDC

Presenter:

Cluster, Multi-site and Multi-level Evaluations

8:30 AM - 9:30 AM CST

Engaging Evaluation Communities, Sharing Leadership: Advancing Professional Practice through AEA’S Foundational Documents

Location: 3501 EF

Presenter: – Ford Foundation

Chair: – Evaluation & Development Associates LLC

Presenter: – CVS Health

Presenter: – Raya Cooper Impact Consulting

Presenter: – Katalyst Innovative Consulting Services

Presenter: – BHP Foundation

AEA Sponsored session

8:30 AM - 9:30 AM CST

Eval Gals: A decade of shared leadership strategies in evaluation practice

Location: 2215 A

Presenter: – Education Development Center (EDC)

Presenter:

Evaluation Managers and Supervisors

8:30 AM - 9:30 AM CST

Gleaning Insights from Research on Evaluation (RoE) PhD Dissertations: Trends, Implications, and Future Directions

Location: 2202

Presenter: – Claremont Graduate University

Chair: – Claremont Graduate University

Presenter:

Presenter: – Claremont Graduate University

Discussant: – Penn State University

Research on Evaluation

8:30 AM - 9:30 AM CST

How to Center Humans in Evaluation: Practical guidance to embrace the complexity of human experience, benefit participants, and address program leader needs

Location: 2505 B

Presenter: – Effect X LLC

Presenter:

Systems in Evaluation

8:30 AM - 9:30 AM CST

In the blink of an eye: the crisis of international program evaluation amidst the impact of US foreign assistance terminations

Location: 2215 C

Chair: – Pact

Facilitator: – Northeastern University

Facilitator:

International and Cross Cultural Evaluation

8:30 AM - 9:30 AM CST

Interactive Approaches for Collaborative Decision-Making & Evaluation to Foster Authentic Engagement

Location: 2505 A

Presenter: – University of Arizona

Presenter:

Collaborative, Participatory and Empowerment Evaluation

8:30 AM - 9:30 AM CST

Needs Assessment Mulitpaper

Location: 2504 A

Needs Assessment

8:30 AM - 8:45 AM CST

An Intentional Process to Engage Community Members in Priority Setting: An Example from a SC Needs Assessment

Location: 2504 A

Presenter:

Needs Assessment

8:45 AM - 9:00 AM CST

Applying a meta-analysis protocol to Needs Assessments: Findings and insights from Vermont's early childhood systems

Location: 2504 A

Presenter:

Needs Assessment

9:00 AM - 9:15 AM CST

Integrating Community Voices: An Iterative Needs Assessment for the National Artificial Intelligence Research Resource (NAIRR) Portal Development

Location: 2504 A

Presenter: – Texas Advanced Computing Center

Presenter:

Needs Assessment

9:15 AM - 9:30 AM CST

Needs Assessment Toolbox: Ignite Approach for Sharing Experiences in Engaging Communities

Location: 2504 A

Presenter: – World Bank

Chair: – World Bank

Presenter:

Chair:

Chair: – university of massachusetts boston

Chair: – St. David's Foundation

Presenter: – University of Alabama

Presenter: – National Taiwan Normal University

Needs Assessment

8:30 AM - 9:30 AM CST

Non Profit and Foundations Multipaper 2

Location: 3501 C

Nonprofit and Foundations

8:45 AM - 9:00 AM CST

Communicating Impact: Data Storytelling and Cross-Departmental Collaboration

Location: 3501 C

Presenter: – American Foundation for Suicide Prevention

Nonprofit and Foundations

8:30 AM - 9:30 AM CST

Pigments + Power: Using Color Theory as a Strategy for Community-Led Storytelling

Location: 3501 AB

PD Workshop Presenter: – Milwaukee Evaluation

Presenter:

Qualitative Methods

8:30 AM - 9:30 AM CST

R-E-S-P-E-C-T, Come and Co-create Recommendations with Me!

Location: 2214

PD Workshop Presenter: – Guidehouse

Organizational Learning and Evaluation Capacity Building

8:30 AM - 9:30 AM CST

SECC

Location: 2204

Presenter: – University of Wisconsin-Stout

Presenter: – University of Massachusetts Lowell

Presenter: – Loyola University Chicago

Presenter:

AEA Sponsored session

8:30 AM - 9:30 AM CST

Social Work Multipaper

Location: 2215 B

Social Work

8:30 AM - 8:45 AM CST

Empowering Communities, Transforming Lives: Collaborative Leadership in Rehabilitation

Location: 2215 B

PD Workshop Presenter:

Presenter:

Social Work

8:45 AM - 9:00 AM CST

Engaging Community, Sharing Leadership, And Enhancing Realist Evaluation Together: How to Build Partnerships Utilizing Big Data: From Human Service Agencies: Examples from England & New York State

Location: 2215 B

Presenter: – Realist Evaluation Inc

Social Work

9:00 AM - 9:15 AM CST

Social Identity, Cognitive Empathy, and Community Engagement: Insights for Transformative Evaluation Practices

Location: 2215 B

PD Workshop Presenter:

Community Psychology

9:15 AM - 9:30 AM CST

Trauma Informed Evaluation: Reducing Fear in Working with Traumatized Populations

Location: 2215 B

PD Workshop Presenter:

Presenter: – Effect X LLC

Social Work

8:30 AM - 9:30 AM CST

The Learning Edge of Implementation: Developmental Evaluation in an Engineering Research Center

Location: 3501 H

Presenter: – Goff Group, LLC

Translational Research Evaluation

9:45 AM - 10:45 AM CST

A Qualitative-Only, Joint Display-Facilitated Reverse Logic Analysis in Education

Location: 2214

Presenter:

Education Evaluation

9:45 AM - 10:45 AM CST

Advancing Methodology in Educational Evaluation

Location: 2204

Education Evaluation

9:45 AM - 10:00 AM CST

Harnessing Double-Robust Machine Learning for Causal Evaluation: The Impact of Teacher Induction Supports on Teacher Burnout and Attrition

Location: 2204

Presenter: – University of Cincinnati

Education Evaluation

10:00 AM - 10:15 AM CST

Impactful Insights: Exploring the Importance and Implications of Centering in Evaluation.

Location: 2204

Presenter: – Community Evaluation Programs, University Outreach and Engagement, Michigan State University.

Presenter:

Education Evaluation

10:15 AM - 10:30 AM CST

Evaluating a Collaborative-Based Learning Experience Pilot Intervention for High School Health Science Students Using the DEAL Reflection Framework

Location: 2204

Presenter: – University of Kansas, Center for Educational Opportunity Programs

Presenter: – University of Kansas

Presenter: – University of Kansas Medical Center

Collaborative, Participatory and Empowerment Evaluation

10:15 AM - 10:30 AM CST

Listening Beyond the Data: Community-Responsive Approaches to Chronic Absenteeism

Location: 2204

Presenter: – SDCOE

Presenter:

Education Evaluation

9:45 AM - 10:45 AM CST

Community Needs Assessments Made Doable: Centering Voices, Driving Impact

Location: 2502 B

Presenter: – CAI Global

Needs Assessment

9:45 AM - 10:45 AM CST

Engage. Share. Transform: Rethinking Institutional Effectiveness from the Inside Out

Location: 2215 C

Facilitator: – UNICEF

Leadership and Organizational Performance

9:45 AM - 10:45 AM CST

Evaluators' Shared Responsibility to Engagement and Cultural Responsiveness: Then and Now

Location: 2205

Presenter: – Everstead Strategies

Presenter:

Presenter: – Penn State University

Presenter:

9:45 AM - 10:45 AM CST

Exploring emerging AI as subject and object in democracy-focused evaluation - Updating our shared perspective

Location: 2215 A

Author:

Presenter: – The MERL Tech Initiative

Presenter: – BHP Foundation

Democracy and Governance

9:45 AM - 10:45 AM CST

Fix My Dashboard!: Exploring Best Practices and Pitfalls in Dashboard Design

Location: 3501 AB

Presenter:

Data Visualization and Reporting

9:45 AM - 10:45 AM CST

From Reactive to Proactive: How “Stand-by” Evaluators Can Enhance Organizational Learning and Adaptability

Location: 3501 H

Presenter: – Center for Community Health and Evaluation, Kaiser Permanente Washington Health Research Institute

Facilitator:

Presenter:

Internal Evaluation

9:45 AM - 10:45 AM CST

Grounding Collective Impact in Black Feminist Epistemology: Reimagining Shared Leadership and Dismantling Power Dynamics

Location: 2502 A

Presenter:

STEM Education and Training

9:45 AM - 10:45 AM CST

Non Profit and Foundations Multipaper 1

Location: 2201

Nonprofit and Foundations

9:45 AM - 10:00 AM CST

How to Evaluate Faith-Based Programs: Practical guidance and principles relevant for 73% of the nonprofit sector in the USA

Location: 2201

Presenter: – Effect X LLC

Presenter:

Nonprofit and Foundations

10:00 AM - 10:15 AM CST

Shared Learnings: Engaging Grantees and Staff in Participatory Evaluation of New Grantmaking Pathways at the Kauffman Foundation

Location: 2201

Presenter:

Chair:

Presenter:

Nonprofit and Foundations

10:15 AM - 10:30 AM CST

Strengthening Philanthropic Next-Generation Place-Based Evaluations & Community Power

Location: 2201

Presenter: – Center for Evaluation Innovation

Nonprofit and Foundations

9:45 AM - 10:45 AM CST

Quant/Qual Café

Location: 3501 EF

Chair:

Co-Presenter: – University of Central Florida

Co-Presenter: – Aurora Research Institute

Co-Presenter:

Co-Presenter: – EVALCORP Research & Consulting

AEA Sponsored session

9:45 AM - 10:45 AM CST

Racial Healing is Measurable: Perspectives from a Funder, External Evaluator, and Educator-Serving Nonprofit on Measuring the Impact of Racial Healing Programs

Location: 2504 A

Discussant: – W.K. Kellogg Foundation

Presenter: – W.K. Kellogg Foundation

Presenter: – The Teaching Well

Presenter: – Q-Q Research Consultants

Theories of Evaluation

9:45 AM - 10:45 AM CST

Safe Stories: How to Tell Impactful Stories While Keeping Communities Safe

Location: 2505 B

LGBTQ+ Voices in Evaluation

9:45 AM - 10:45 AM CST

Systems In Evaluation Multipaper

Location: 2202

Systems in Evaluation

9:45 AM - 10:00 AM CST

From Equity Audits to Action: Evaluating Stakeholder Engagement and Leadership in Advancing Education Justice

Location: 2202

Presenter:

Co-Presenter:

Systems in Evaluation

10:00 AM - 10:15 AM CST

How Can Evaluators Navigate Conflict, Migration, and Cultural Complexity for transformative Evaluaion on Sexual and Reproductive Health Rights in Hard-to-Reach Areas?

Location: 2202

Presenter: – Monitoring and Evaluation Professionals Association of Kenya

Facilitator: – Monitoring and Evaluation Professionals Association of Kenya

Discussant: – Monitoring and Evaluation Professionals Association of Kenya

Systems in Evaluation

10:15 AM - 10:30 AM CST

Reimagining Educational Evaluation for Systemic Change: Community-Driven Ecosystems for Adolescent Girls in India

Location: 2202

Presenter:

Systems in Evaluation

10:30 AM - 10:45 AM CST

Using Systems-Thinking Approaches in Implementation Evaluation of Education Programs

Location: 2202

Presenter: – Virginia Commonwealth University

Presenter: – VCU School of education

Systems in Evaluation

9:45 AM - 10:45 AM CST

The Power of Partnership: Co-Designing an Evaluation Strategy for the Arts

Location: 3501 G

Presenter: – Hatch Creative Strategy

Chair: – Houston Endowment

Presenter:

Discussant:

Arts, Culture, and Museums

9:45 AM - 10:45 AM CST

The Recipe Approach to Cost-Inclusive Evaluation: Beyond Ingredients and Into Action! … Including Sustainability and Dissemination.

Location: 2203

Presenter: – American University

Costs, Effectiveness, Benefits, and Economics

9:45 AM - 10:45 AM CST

The Ripple Effect: Building Social Capital to Transform Organizational Culture

Location: 2505 A

PD Workshop Presenter: – Brighter Strategies

Social Network Analysis

9:45 AM - 10:45 AM CST

When Gender Becomes Political: Feminist Evaluation in an Era of Polycrisis

Location: 2215 B

Presenter:

Facilitator:

Presenter:

Feminist Issues in Evaluation

11:00 AM - 12:00 PM CST

Accessible AI for Evaluation: Examples of Practical Applications

Location: 2505 A

Presenter: – Deloitte

Presenter:

Chair: – Deloitte Consulting

Discussant: – Deloitte Consulting

Use and Influence of Evaluation

11:00 AM - 12:00 PM CST

AI as a Catalyst for Qualitative Research: Reconciling Analytical Innovation with Ethical Responsibility

Location: 2502 B

PD Workshop Presenter: – University of Nevada Reno

PD Workshop Presenter:

Qualitative Methods

11:00 AM - 12:00 PM CST

Applications of AI in Support of Theory-Driven Evaluation

Location: 3501 C

Presenter:

Chair:

Presenter: – Claremont Graduate University

Presenter: – Fetterman & Associates

Presenter: – Kaiser Permanente

Program Theory and Theory-Driven Evaluation

11:00 AM - 12:00 PM CST

Applying Participatory Evaluation Principles to Real-World Design, Implementation, and Dissemination: Examples from the Evaluation of the Richmond Fund for Children and Youth

Location: 3501 AB

PD Workshop Presenter: – WestEd

Co-Presenter: – WestEd

Co-Presenter:

Author: – WestEd

Youth Focused Evaluation

11:00 AM - 12:00 PM CST

Evaluating College to Career Readiness by Engaging Various Communities

Location: 2201

Higher Education

11:00 AM - 11:15 AM CST

A Retrospective Pre-Post Evaluation Measures Intervention’s Impact on Undergraduate Smart Agriculture Knowledge and Career Awareness

Location: 2201

Presenter:

Facilitator:

Presenter:

Facilitator:

Higher Education

11:15 AM - 11:30 AM CST

Preparing a Robust Public Health Informatics Workforce: An Academic-Industry Partnership

Location: 2201

Presenter: – University of California, Irvine

Higher Education

11:30 AM - 11:45 AM CST

Social Engagement in Postdoctoral Training: The Role of Community and Social Capital in Scholarly Productivity

Location: 2201

Presenter:

Higher Education

11:45 AM - 12:00 PM CST

Utilizing Group Concept Mapping for Program Development and Evaluation of T32 Graduate Training Programs Focused on Increasing Trainee Diversity

Location: 2201

Presenter: – University of Missouri, Kansas City

Presenter: – West Virginia University, Department of Cancer Prevention and Control

Higher Education

11:00 AM - 12:00 PM CST

From the Ground Up: Developing an Evalutation to Measure Success of a Program

Location: 2502 A

PD Workshop Presenter: – United Way of Greater Houston

Presenter: – United Way of Greater Houston

Mixed Methods Evaluation

11:00 AM - 12:00 PM CST

Graduate Students and New Evaluators Multipaper

Location: 2214

Graduate Students and New Evaluators

11:00 AM - 11:15 AM CST

Culturally Responsive Evaluation as the Compass: Cultivating Community Engagement and Shared Leadership within Constraints

Location: 2214

Presenter:

Graduate Students and New Evaluators

11:15 AM - 11:30 AM CST

Evaluation as Servant Leadership

Location: 2214

Presenter: – University of Denver

Graduate Students and New Evaluators

11:30 AM - 11:45 AM CST

From Lived Experience to Evaluation Praxis: A Collaborative Autoethnography of Early Career Latinx Evaluators in STEM Education

Location: 2214

Presenter: – University of California, Santa Barbara

Graduate Students and New Evaluators

11:45 AM - 12:00 PM CST

YEEs AS CATALYSTS: BRIDGING THE SKILLS GAP AMONG THE YOUNG AND EMERGING EVALUATORS (YEEs) IN UGANDA.

Location: 2214

Presenter: – Africa Evaluation Association (AfrEA).

Graduate Students and New Evaluators

11:00 AM - 12:00 PM CST

Human Services Evaluation Multipaper

Location: 2204

Human Services Evaluation

11:15 AM - 11:30 AM CST

Focus, Align, Execute: Using the 4 Disciplines of Execution to Drive Evaluation and Strategic Learning

Location: 2204

Presenter: – Loyola University Chicago

Human Services Evaluation

11:45 AM - 12:00 PM CST

Visualizing your impact: reimagining logic models and theories of change

Location: 2204

PD Workshop Presenter:

Human Services Evaluation

11:00 AM - 12:00 PM CST

Internal Evaluation Multipaper

Location: 2205

Internal Evaluation

11:00 AM - 11:15 AM CST

Collaborative Formative and Summative Meta-evaluation to Strengthen Evaluation Practices among Evaluators and Non-Evaluators

Location: 2205

Presenter: – University of Iowa

Internal Evaluation

11:15 AM - 11:30 AM CST

Evaluating Community-School Collaborations within a College Access Program: A Qualitative Study

Location: 2205

Presenter: – University of Kansas

Presenter:

Presenter: – University of Kansas

College Access Programs

11:30 AM - 11:45 AM CST

Phased Internal Evaluations: Driving Equity and Shared Learning with non-profit program teams

Location: 2205

PD Workshop Presenter: – Children's Council

Facilitator: – Children's Council

Internal Evaluation

11:00 AM - 12:00 PM CST

Leveraging Program Evaluation for Cross-Organizational Collaboration and Decision-Making

Location: 2215 A

Presenter:

Disabilities and Underrepresented Populations

11:00 AM - 12:00 PM CST

Meet the Editors! What is each evaluation journal about, how are journals amplifying and empowering new voices, and how can you contribute?

Location: 3501 EF

Chair:

Presenter: – American Journal of Evaluation

Presenter: – University of Naples “Federico II”

Presenter: – Journal of MultiDisciplinary Evaluation

AEA Sponsored Sessions

11:00 AM - 12:00 PM CST

African Evaluation Journal

Location: 3501 EF

AEA Sponsored session

11:00 AM - 12:00 PM CST

American Journal of Evaluation

Location: 3501 EF

Presenter: – American Journal of Evaluation

Author:

Author: – American Journal of Evaluation, Abt Global

AEA Sponsored session

11:00 AM - 12:00 PM CST

Evaluation and Program planning

Location: 3501 EF

AEA Sponsored session

11:00 AM - 12:00 PM CST

Journal of MultiDisciplinary Evaluation

Location: 3501 EF

Presenter: – Journal of MultiDisciplinary Evaluation

AEA Sponsored session

11:00 AM - 12:00 PM CST

New Directions for Evaluation

Location: 3501 EF

Presenter:

AEA Sponsored session

11:00 AM - 12:00 PM CST

New modalities for engaging AI as a stakeholder at the table

Location: 3501 H

Presenter:

Presenter: – The Oceanic Partners

Integrating Technology into Evaluation

11:00 AM - 12:00 PM CST

The Cross-Sector Health Equity Evaluation Framework (CHEEF): A Think Tank for Transformative Evaluation Practice

Location: 2215 B

Facilitator: – University of the Incarnate Word

Health Evaluation

11:00 AM - 12:00 PM CST

Transforming climate action through evidence and learning: a multi-perspective invitation to action

Location: 3501 G

Facilitator:

Discussant:

Environmental Program Evaluation

11:00 AM - 12:00 PM CST

Use of Evaluation: Why Management Matters

Location: 2504 A

Chair:

Presenter:

Presenter: – University of Cincinnati Evaluation Services Center

Use and Influence of Evaluation

11:00 AM - 12:00 PM CST

We Are In This Together: Evaluating the Impact Of/On Community For Translational Research/Research Commercialization Programs

Location: 2505 B

Panelist: – RTI International

Panelist:

Panelist: – RTI International

Discussant: – National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences, NIH

Research, Technology, and Development Evaluation

12:15 PM - 1:15 PM CST

Human Services Evaluation Annual Meeting

Location: 2202

Chair: – Realist Evaluation Inc

Chair: – Eastern Michigan University - Bright Futures

12:30 PM - 1:30 PM CST

Birds of a Feather

Location: 1501 A-C

12:30 PM - 1:30 PM CST

1: AAPI Evaluators Affinity Group: Sharing Perspectives and Building Community

Location: 1501 A-C

PD Workshop Presenter: – Ecotrust

Presenter: – Ecotrust

Multiethnic Issues in Evaluation

12:30 PM - 1:30 PM CST

2: Adapting Needs Assessments in Times of Political Change: Conducting an LGBTQ+ Needs Assessment During the 2024 U.S. Presidential Election

Location: 1501 A-C

Presenter: – Urban Education Research Center, University of Missouri Kansas City

Presenter: – Urban Education Research Center, University of Missouri - Kansas City

Presenter: – Urban Education Research Center, University of Missouri Kansas City

LGBTQ+ Voices in Evaluation

12:30 PM - 1:30 PM CST

3: Afrofuturist Evaluative Thinking: Reimagining Evidence Through Relationship

Location: 1501 A-C

Presenter: – UBUNTU Research & Evaluation

Presenter: – Virginia Tech

Presenter: – UBUNTU Research & Evaluation

Feminist Issues in Evaluation

12:30 PM - 1:30 PM CST

4: AI, Accreditation, and Equity: Reimagining Evaluation Through Shared Leadership and Intelligent Systems

Location: 1501 A-C

PD Workshop Presenter:

Integrating Technology into Evaluation

12:30 PM - 1:30 PM CST

5: Are the Graduate Evaluation Course Curricula at Land-Grant Universities Adequately Preparing Their Graduates for Successful Evaluation Careers?

Location: 1501 A-C

Presenter:

Presenter: – Mississippi State University

Presenter: – University of Florida

Presenter: – Purdue University

Graduate Students and New Evaluators

12:30 PM - 1:30 PM CST

6: Better Together: Leveraging the AEA Competencies and Guiding Principles to Support Internal Evaluation Team Alignment and Professional Development

Location: 1501 A-C

PD Workshop Presenter:

Presenter:

Organizational Learning and Evaluation Capacity Building

12:30 PM - 1:30 PM CST

7: Beyond the Survey: Culturally Responsive Evaluation with Indigenous Communities

Location: 1501 A-C

Presenter: – EVALCORP

Indigenous Peoples in Evaluation

12:30 PM - 1:30 PM CST

9: Brainstorm Ways to Maximize Secondary School Student Participation in Youth Risky Behavior Surveys In the Current Environment

Location: 1501 A-C

PD Workshop Presenter: – University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa

Youth Focused Evaluation

12:30 PM - 1:30 PM CST

10: Brave Spaces: Engaging Young People and Families in Evaluating Tough Issues

Location: 1501 A-C

Presenter: – Apex Evaluation

Youth Focused Evaluation

12:30 PM - 1:30 PM CST

11: Building an Evaluators' Community of Practice: A Collaborative Approach to Shared Leadership and Inclusive Engagement

Location: 1501 A-C

PD Workshop Presenter: – University of Idaho

Facilitator: – University of Idaho

Chair: – TerraLuna Collaborative

Presenter:

Facilitator:

Organizational Learning and Evaluation Capacity Building

12:30 PM - 1:30 PM CST

13: Centering Humanity in Evaluation Practice: Listening and Seeing Beyond Metrics

Location: 1501 A-C

Presenter:

Facilitator:

Presenter:

Facilitator:

Indigenous Peoples in Evaluation

12:30 PM - 1:30 PM CST

14: Co-Designing Evaluation with Educators: From Compliance to Collaboration

Location: 1501 A-C

Presenter: – NYC Public Schools

Presenter:

Education Evaluation

12:30 PM - 1:30 PM CST

15: Community Power-Sharing with Learning Cohorts

Location: 1501 A-C

PD Workshop Presenter:

PD Workshop Presenter: – Grassroots Solutions

PD Workshop Presenter:

Nonprofit and Foundations

12:30 PM - 1:30 PM CST

16: Creative ways to teach evaluation to those who do not want to be evaluators

Location: 1501 A-C

PD Workshop Presenter: – Just A Start

Presenter: – Just A Start

Teaching of Evaluation

12:30 PM - 1:30 PM CST

17: Crossroads of Influence: Equitable Evaluation in 2025

Location: 1501 A-C

Facilitator: – The Improve Group

Use and Influence of Evaluation

12:30 PM - 1:30 PM CST

18: Culturally Responsive Evaluation (CRE) in politically challenging times.

Location: 1501 A-C

Presenter: – University of Alabama

Facilitator: – University of Alabama

Discussant: – University of Alabama

Discussant: – University of North Carolina at Charlotte

Co-Chair:

Health Evaluation

12:30 PM - 1:30 PM CST

19: Developing a Culture of Learning in an International NGO

Location: 1501 A-C

PD Workshop Presenter: – Women for Women International

Facilitator: – Women for Women International

Nonprofit and Foundations

12:30 PM - 1:30 PM CST

20: Developing a Standardized Framework to Strengthen Technical Assistance Efforts

Location: 1501 A-C

Presenter: – Enterprise Community Partners

Facilitator: – Enterprise Community Partners

Co-Presenter:

Human Services Evaluation

12:30 PM - 1:30 PM CST

21: Early Scholar Evaluators Navigating the Politics of Reporting

Location: 1501 A-C

Presenter: – Arizona State University

Presenter: – Washington State University

Presenter:

Co-Presenter: – Arizona State University

Co-Presenter:

Graduate Students and New Evaluators

12:30 PM - 1:30 PM CST

23: Evaluating leadership initiatives in times of uncertainty

Location: 1501 A-C

Facilitator: – Deloitte Consulting

Facilitator:

Facilitator: – Deloitte Consulting

Leadership and Organizational Performance

12:30 PM - 1:30 PM CST

24: Evaluation Anthropology Networking Session

Location: 1501 A-C

PD Workshop Presenter: – University of Illinois at Chicago School of Public Health

Presenter:

Facilitator:

Collaborative, Participatory and Empowerment Evaluation

12:30 PM - 1:30 PM CST

25: Evaluation in Community: Exploring community-aligned evaluation of a statewide early childhood system plan through the framework of a government and community-based organizational partnership

Location: 1501 A-C

PD Workshop Presenter: – Washington State Department of Children Youth and Families

Presenter: – Washington Communities for Children - First 5 Fundamentals

Presenter: – Washington State Department of Children Youth and Families

Community Development

12:30 PM - 1:30 PM CST

26: Evaluation of a Multi-Module Parenting and Life Skills Program for Youth Using Convergent Mixed Methods Design

Location: 1501 A-C

Presenter: – Washington State University

Mixed Methods Evaluation

12:30 PM - 1:30 PM CST

27: Evaluation with a Compass, Not a Blueprint: Synthesizing Place-Based and Utilization Focused Evaluation

Location: 1501 A-C

Presenter: – University of Mississippi, Center for Research Evaluation

Presenter: – Center for Research Evaluation (CERE), University of Mississippi

Presenter: – The Center for Research Evaluation, University of Mississippi

University-Based Centers

12:30 PM - 1:30 PM CST

28: Evaluators at a Crossroads: Navigating Cultural Responsiveness, DEI Backlash, and the Future of Inclusive Evaluation

Location: 1501 A-C

Presenter: – University of Tennessee, Knoxville

Advocacy and Policy Change

12:30 PM - 1:30 PM CST

29: Fostering Authentic Engagement in Program Evaluation: Opportunities and Challenges for Implementation in the Extension Education Context

Location: 1501 A-C

Presenter:

Extension Education Evaluation

12:30 PM - 1:30 PM CST

31: Leading Together: Managing Empowered Evaluation Teams

Location: 1501 A-C

Presenter: – Apex Evaluation

Evaluation Managers and Supervisors

12:30 PM - 1:30 PM CST

32: Measuring What Matters: Reimagining Evaluation for Community Schools

Location: 1501 A-C

Presenter:

Presenter: – Born Ingenuity

Presenter: – Apex Evaluation

Education Evaluation

12:30 PM - 1:30 PM CST

33: More Than the Numbers: Including Qualitative Data in Community Dashboards

Location: 1501 A-C

Presenter: – Catherine Brown Evaluation Services, LLC

Qualitative Methods

12:30 PM - 1:30 PM CST

34: Museums, Communities, and Change: Balancing rigor, safety, and utility in a study to understand equity centered projects across diverse cultural organizations

Location: 1501 A-C

Facilitator: – Smithsonian Institution

Facilitator: – Science Museum of Minnesota

Arts, Culture, and Museums

12:30 PM - 1:30 PM CST

35: Navigating the changing STEMM tides with SEA Change. An evaluation of an initiative that builds capacity and catalyzes change in access and success for all at university STEMM departments.

Location: 1501 A-C

PD Workshop Presenter:

STEM Education and Training

12:30 PM - 1:30 PM CST

36: Navigating the human side of the social finance and corporate sectors

Location: 1501 A-C

Facilitator: – Beyond Measure

Facilitator: – Self Employed

Facilitator: – Intention 2 Impact

Social Finance

12:30 PM - 1:30 PM CST

37: Navigating the Intersection of Grant Writing & Evaluation: Lessons from the Field

Location: 1501 A-C

Presenter:

Co-Presenter:

Use and Influence of Evaluation

12:30 PM - 1:30 PM CST

38: Navigating Virtual Parenting Programs: Challenges and Opportunities in Engaging Caregivers and Evaluating Impact

Location: 1501 A-C

PD Workshop Presenter: – Centerstone

Presenter:

Facilitator: – Centerstone

Behavioral Health

12:30 PM - 1:30 PM CST

39: No-niche independent evaluator? No problem! – The benefits of a nicheless independent consulting practice

Location: 1501 A-C

Facilitator:

Independent Consulting

12:30 PM - 1:30 PM CST

40: Qualitative Matters: Strengthening Performance Measures with Participant-Centered Evaluation.

Location: 1501 A-C

Facilitator: – Auburn University

Facilitator:

Facilitator: – Auburn University

Collaborative, Participatory and Empowerment Evaluation

12:30 PM - 1:30 PM CST

41: Shared leadership and learning for community data through the bundled evaluation of a funder’s strategy

Location: 1501 A-C

Facilitator: – Robert Wood Johnson Foundation

Presenter: – Visible Network Labs

Presenter: – DeBeaumont Foundation

Presenter: – Visible Network Labs, University of Colorado Denver

Collaborative, Participatory and Empowerment Evaluation

12:30 PM - 1:30 PM CST

42: Sharing Leadership to Build Capacity and Community: Learning from a Peer Advisor Model

Location: 1501 A-C

Presenter: – WestEd

Collaborative, Participatory and Empowerment Evaluation

12:30 PM - 1:30 PM CST

43: Some Tips and Strategies for Culturally Responsive Evaluation (CRE) in the Context of 21st Century's Extension

Location: 1501 A-C

Presenter: – Mississippi State University

Extension Education Evaluation

12:30 PM - 1:30 PM CST

44: Strategizing to Do More With Less in an Increasingly Turbulent Environment: Expanding the Toolkit for Program Evaluators and Program Managers/Decision-Makers

Location: 1501 A-C

Presenter: – The University of the West Indies

Presenter: – Western Michigan University

Costs, Effectiveness, Benefits, and Economics

12:30 PM - 1:30 PM CST

45: Survey Design Challenges and Solutions for Engaging Communities

Location: 1501 A-C

PD Workshop Presenter: – Association of Public Health Laboratories

Needs Assessment

12:30 PM - 1:30 PM CST

46: Tailoring a Community Conversation to Meet the Cultural Norms of Marshallese, Micronesian and Other Pacific Islander Populations

Location: 1501 A-C

Facilitator: – University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences

Indigenous Peoples in Evaluation

12:30 PM - 1:30 PM CST

47: The Dissertation Coop: PhD Students Hatching Ideas and Connections

Location: 1501 A-C

Facilitator:

Graduate Students and New Evaluators

12:30 PM - 1:30 PM CST

48: The Evaluation Bridge: Mentoring the Next Gen Beyond the Basics

Location: 1501 A-C

Presenter: – University of Kentucky

Presenter:

Graduate Students and New Evaluators

12:30 PM - 1:30 PM CST

49: The Next Generation of Evaluation Leaders: Who are we? What are our successes and challenges? Where do we want the field to go?

Location: 1501 A-C

Facilitator: – Public Profit

Facilitator:

Graduate Students and New Evaluators

12:30 PM - 1:30 PM CST

50: The Power of Language in Data Collection: Why It Matters

Location: 1501 A-C

Presenter: – Institute of International Education

International and Cross Cultural Evaluation

12:30 PM - 1:30 PM CST

51: Theory Versus Practice: Exploring the Practical Reality of Designing and Conducting Equity-Focused Evaluations

Location: 1501 A-C

Facilitator:

Graduate Students and New Evaluators

12:30 PM - 1:30 PM CST

52: Transforming University-Based Evaluation Centers: A Case Study of the Urban Education Research Center

Location: 1501 A-C

PD Workshop Presenter: – Urban Education Research Center, University of Missouri Kansas City

Presenter: – Urban Education Research Center, University of Missouri - Kansas City

University-Based Centers

12:30 PM - 1:30 PM CST

53: Using a Cooperative Learning Framework to Partner with Extension Educators

Location: 1501 A-C

PD Workshop Presenter: – University of Illinois Extension

Extension Education Evaluation

12:30 PM - 1:30 PM CST

54: Using Adaption Innovation Theory to Improve Extension Evaluation

Location: 1501 A-C

PD Workshop Presenter: – University of Illinois Extension

Extension Education Evaluation

12:30 PM - 1:30 PM CST

55: Value of Real-Time Evaluation (RTE) for Engaging Communities in Program Implementation

Location: 1501 A-C

Presenter:

Presenter: – Purdue University

Co-Presenter: – Purdue University

Data Visualization and Reporting

12:30 PM - 1:30 PM CST

56: What does it take to honor best practices and lived experiences when gathering gender identity information in this moment in time?

Location: 1501 A-C

Presenter: – MXM Research Group

Presenter:

LGBTQ+ Voices in Evaluation

12:30 PM - 1:30 PM CST

57: What Should the Field Learn Next? Shaping a Shared Learning Agenda for Systems Change

Location: 1501 A-C

Facilitator:

Facilitator: – James Irvine Foundation

Facilitator: – The James Irvine Foundation

Systems in Evaluation

12:30 PM - 1:30 PM CST

58: When Data Doesn't Tell the Whole Story: The Role of Intuition in Evaluation

Location: 1501 A-C

PD Workshop Presenter:

Chair:

Co-Chair: – UBUNTU Research & Evaluation

Research on Evaluation

2:00 PM - 3:00 PM CST

Advancement in Teaching Evaluation

Location: 2205

Teaching of Evaluation

2:00 PM - 2:15 PM CST

AI as an academic ally: Supporting diverse learners and improving course quality in an evaluation course

Location: 2205

PD Workshop Presenter: – University of Kentucky

Teaching of Evaluation

2:15 PM - 2:30 PM CST

Mapping University-Based Evaluator Education Programs in African Higher Education Institutions

Location: 2205

Presenter: – Saint Francis University

Presenter: – UNC Greensboro

Teaching of Evaluation

2:30 PM - 2:45 PM CST

Sharing Leadership in Evaluation Education: Teaching Logic Models through an AI Chatbot

Location: 2205

Presenter: – University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign

Teaching of Evaluation

2:45 PM - 3:00 PM CST

University-Based Evaluator Education Programs in Ghana: Stakeholder Reflections to Promote Learning

Location: 2205

Presenter: – Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology

Presenter:

Teaching of Evaluation

2:00 PM - 3:00 PM CST

Amplify Local Voices: Facilitating Collaborative Evaluation Practice Across Multi-Level Complex Community-Based Initiatives

Location: 2505 A

Presenter: – Professional Data Analysts

Author:

Author: – Professional Data Analysts

Author:

Use and Influence of Evaluation

2:00 PM - 3:00 PM CST

Behavioral Health Multipaper

Location: 3501 AB

Behavioral Health

2:00 PM - 2:15 PM CST

Implementing Shared Leadership and Community Engagement in Behavioral Health Program Evaluation: Learnings from Diverse California Bay-Area Program Evaluations

Location: 3501 AB

Presenter:

Behavioral Health

2:15 PM - 2:30 PM CST

Segmenting Social Determinants of Health to Improve Care for High Utilizers in Community Mental Health

Location: 3501 AB

PD Workshop Presenter: – Didi Hirsch Mental Health Services

Presenter:

Behavioral Health

2:30 PM - 2:45 PM CST

The Importance of State Required Data Reporting for Improving Outcomes of Minors with Repeated Involuntary Mental Health Examinations

Location: 3501 AB

PD Workshop Presenter: – University of South Florida

Presenter: – University of South Florida

Author: – University of South Florida

Presenter:

Behavioral Health

2:00 PM - 3:00 PM CST

Beyond Tokenism: Youth PhotoVoice as Transformative Evaluation Method in Intergenerational Initiatives

Location: 3501 H

Co-Chair:

Facilitator:

Youth Focused Evaluation

2:00 PM - 3:00 PM CST

Building protected systems for effective evaluation advocacy and maintaining data integrity during rapid institutional change

Location: 3501 G

Panelist:

Panelist: – John Baek Consulting

Moderator:

Panelist:

Government Evaluation

2:00 PM - 3:00 PM CST

Design and Analysis of Experiments Multipaper

Location: 3501 C

Design and Analysis of Experiments

2:00 PM - 2:15 PM CST

Leveraging Sampling Costs to Design Cost-Efficient Experiments Investigating Moderation and Main Effects

Location: 3501 C

Presenter: – University of Georgia

Presenter: – University of Cincinnai

Design and Analysis of Experiments

2:15 PM - 2:30 PM CST

Making Randomized Controlled Trials Culturally Responsive: A Practical Framework

Location: 3501 C

Presenter: – University of Tennessee at Knoxville

Presenter:

Design and Analysis of Experiments

2:30 PM - 2:45 PM CST

Statistical Power for Equivalence Tests in Randomized Controlled Trials

Location: 3501 C

Presenter: – University of Georgia

Design and Analysis of Experiments

2:00 PM - 3:00 PM CST

Empowering the Community: A Demonstration of Participatory Methods that Reveal Potential and Facilitate Enabling Connections

Location: 2203

PD Workshop Presenter:

Independent Consulting

2:00 PM - 3:00 PM CST

Health Evaluation Multipaper

Location: 2502 A

Health Evaluation

2:00 PM - 2:15 PM CST

Maximizing training and technical assistance (TTA) effectiveness to transform public health: A utilization-focused process evaluation of the Public Health Infrastructure Grant (PHIG) TTA model

Location: 2502 A

Presenter: – Texas Health Institute

Author: – Texas Health Institute

Author: – National Network of Public Health Institutes

Author: – Public Health Accreditation Board

Health Evaluation

2:15 PM - 2:30 PM CST

Measuring Impact at Scale: Evaluating Maternal and Infant Health Pathways in Ohio Using Statewide Longitudinal Data

Location: 2502 A

Presenter:

Health Evaluation

2:00 PM - 3:00 PM CST

How to Avoid Divisive Politization of your Findings while Advancing Equity

Location: 2215 A

Presenter: – Innovation Network

Co-Presenter: – Innovation Network

Facilitator: – Innovation Network

Nonprofit and Foundations

2:00 PM - 3:00 PM CST

Innovative Approaches to Engaging Various Communities in Higher Education Evaluation

Location: 2204

Higher Education

2:00 PM - 2:15 PM CST

Evaluating STEM Faculty Perspectives in a Community of Practice Implementing Course Improvements for Systemic Departmental Change

Location: 2204

PD Workshop Presenter: – the University of Texas at Austin

Author: – The University of Texas at Austin

Author:

Higher Education

2:15 PM - 2:30 PM CST

Fostering Students' Evaluation Capacities with Campus-wide Data: Insights from the Student Assessment Challenge

Location: 2204

Presenter:

Higher Education

2:30 PM - 2:45 PM CST

Using real-time continuous feedback evaluation tools to build long-term inclusive excellence in higher education

Location: 2204

Presenter:

Higher Education

2:00 PM - 3:00 PM CST

Learning Logs: The good, the bad, the ugly, and the one we’re excited to share about

Location: 2214

Presenter:

Organizational Learning and Evaluation Capacity Building

2:00 PM - 3:00 PM CST

Lessons and implications on centering community and shared leadership in evaluation

Location: 3501 EF

Presenter: – Gallaudet University

Chair:

Discussant:

Presenter:

AEA Sponsored session

2:00 PM - 3:00 PM CST

Mapping Impact: Applying Geospatial Tools for More Effective Program Evaluation

Location: 2502 B

Presenter:

Presenter: – The Rucks Group

Integrating Technology into Evaluation

2:00 PM - 3:00 PM CST

Perspectives on Practicing Culturally Responsive Evaluation with Latina/o/e Communities

Location: 2505 B

Presenter: – Tanoma Consulting, LLC

Chair: – Tanoma Consulting, LLC

Presenter: – University of the Incarnate Word

Presenter:

Presenter: – BECOME

Presenter: – Loyola University Chicago

LatinX Responsive Evaluation Discourse

2:00 PM - 3:00 PM CST

Qualitative Methods Multipaper

Location: 2201

Qualitative Methods

2:00 PM - 2:15 PM CST

A Comparative Analysis of Human and AI Approaches to Thematic Coding in Youth Development Evaluation

Location: 2201

PD Workshop Presenter: – LSU AgCenter

Presenter:

Qualitative Methods

2:15 PM - 2:30 PM CST

Centering Voices, Challenging Bias: Evaluating the Effects of Reflexivity Training on Interviewing Practices

Location: 2201

Presenter:

Qualitative Methods

2:30 PM - 2:45 PM CST

Treating old data with new tricks: Exploring reliability between humans and artificial intelligence

Location: 2201

Presenter: – Prism Partners Group

Presenter:

Qualitative Methods

2:45 PM - 3:00 PM CST

Waves of Change: Using Photovoice to Reimagine Equity in Marine Science

Location: 2201

Presenter: – Arizona State University

Presenter:

Presenter: – Arizona State University

Presenter:

Author:

Qualitative Methods

2:00 PM - 3:00 PM CST

Rethinking Evaluation Education: Innovations from across the World

Location: 2504 A

Chair: – Affiliation in Progress

Discussant: – Affiliation in Progress

Presenter:

Presenter: – Saint Francis University

Presenter: – St. Mary's University

Presenter: – University of North Carolina - Wilmington

Teaching of Evaluation

2:00 PM - 3:00 PM CST

Using Design Thinking to Improve the Client Intake Process

Location: 2215 B

Presenter: – University of Wisconsin-Madison

Presenter:

University-Based Centers

3:15 PM - 4:45 PM CST

Closing Plenary Session: Cultivating Curiosity: Collective Reflection and Leading the Future of Evaluation

Location: 2501 ABC

Speaker: – Work With Libby LLC

Speaker:

5:00 PM - 6:15 PM CST

AEA Send-OFF Celebration

Social Event