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  • Friday, November 14, 2025
  • 8:30 AM - 9:30 AM CST
    Advancing Research Methods: Innovations in Measurement, Modeling, and Meta-Analysis
    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
  • 8:30 AM - 9:30 AM CST
    Building Evaluation Capacity Through AI-Enhanced Learning and Development Techniques
  • 8:30 AM - 9:30 AM CST
    Costs, Effectiveness, Benefits, and Economics Multipaper
    Costs, Effectiveness, Benefits, and Economics
  • 8:30 AM - 9:30 AM CST
    Empowering Diverse Voices: Applications of Culturally Responsive Evaluation in Various Programs
  • 8:30 AM - 9:30 AM CST
    Engaging Community in Concepts of Program Fidelity and Implementation Evaluation
  • 8:30 AM - 9:30 AM CST
    Engaging Evaluation Communities, Sharing Leadership: Advancing Professional Practice through AEA’S Foundational Documents
  • 8:30 AM - 9:30 AM CST
    Eval Gals: A decade of shared leadership strategies in evaluation practice
  • 8:30 AM - 9:30 AM CST
    Gleaning Insights from Research on Evaluation (RoE) PhD Dissertations: Trends, Implications, and Future Directions
  • 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
  • 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
  • 8:30 AM - 9:30 AM CST
    Interactive Approaches for Collaborative Decision-Making & Evaluation to Foster Authentic Engagement
  • 8:30 AM - 9:30 AM CST
    Needs Assessment Mulitpaper
    Needs Assessment
  • 8:30 AM - 9:30 AM CST
    Non Profit and Foundations Multipaper 2
    Nonprofit and Foundations
  • 8:30 AM - 9:30 AM CST
    Pigments + Power: Using Color Theory as a Strategy for Community-Led Storytelling
  • 8:30 AM - 9:30 AM CST
    R-E-S-P-E-C-T, Come and Co-create Recommendations with Me!
  • 8:30 AM - 9:30 AM CST
    SECC
  • 8:30 AM - 9:30 AM CST
    Social Work Multipaper
    Social Work
  • 8:30 AM - 9:30 AM CST
    The Learning Edge of Implementation: Developmental Evaluation in an Engineering Research Center
  • 9:45 AM - 10:45 AM CST
    A Qualitative-Only, Joint Display-Facilitated Reverse Logic Analysis
  • 9:45 AM - 10:45 AM CST
    Advancing Methodology in Educational Evaluation
    Education Evaluation
  • 9:45 AM - 10:45 AM CST
    Community Needs Assessments Made Doable: Centering Voices, Driving Impact
  • 9:45 AM - 10:45 AM CST
    Engage. Share. Transform: Rethinking Institutional Effectiveness from the Inside Out
  • 9:45 AM - 10:45 AM CST
    Evaluators' Shared Responsibility to Engagement and Cultural Responsiveness: Then and Now
  • 9:45 AM - 10:45 AM CST
    Exploring emerging AI as subject and object in democracy-focused evaluation - Updating our shared perspective
  • 9:45 AM - 10:45 AM CST
    Fix My Dashboard!: Exploring Best Practices and Pitfalls in Dashboard Design
  • 9:45 AM - 10:45 AM CST
    From Reactive to Proactive: How “Stand-by” Evaluators Can Enhance Organizational Learning and Adaptability
  • 9:45 AM - 10:45 AM CST
    Grounding Collective Impact in Black Feminist Epistemology: Reimagining Shared Leadership and Dismantling Power Dynamics
  • 9:45 AM - 10:45 AM CST
    Non Profit and Foundations Multipaper 1
    Nonprofit and Foundations
  • 9:45 AM - 10:45 AM CST
    Quant/Qual Café
  • 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
  • 9:45 AM - 10:45 AM CST
    Safe Stories: How to Tell Impactful Stories While Keeping Communities Safe
  • 9:45 AM - 10:45 AM CST
    Systems In Evaluation Multipaper
    Systems in Evaluation
  • 9:45 AM - 10:45 AM CST
    The Power of Partnership: Co-Designing an Evaluation Strategy for the Arts
  • 9:45 AM - 10:45 AM CST
    The Recipe Approach to Cost-Inclusive Evaluation: Beyond Ingredients and Into Action! … Including Sustainability and Dissemination.
  • 9:45 AM - 10:45 AM CST
    The Ripple Effect: Building Social Capital to Transform Organizational Culture
  • 9:45 AM - 10:45 AM CST
    When Gender Becomes Political: Feminist Evaluation in an Era of Polycrisis
  • 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM CST
    Accessible AI for Evaluation: Examples of Practical Applications
  • 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM CST
    AI as a Catalyst for Qualitative Research: Reconciling Analytical Innovation with Ethical Responsibility
  • 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM CST
    Applications of AI in Support of Theory-Driven Evaluation

    Presenter: Charles Gasper, MS

    Chair: Charles Gasper, MS

    Presenter: Stewart I. Donaldson, Ph.D. – Claremont Graduate University

    Presenter: David M. Fetterman, Ph.D. – Fetterman & Associates

    Presenter: Jessica Renger – Kaiser Permanente

    Submitter: Charles Gasper, MS

  • 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
  • 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM CST
    Evaluating College to Career Readiness by Engaging Various Communities
    Higher Education
  • 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM CST
    From the Ground Up: Developing an Evalutation to Measure Success of a Program
  • 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM CST
    Graduate Students and New Evaluators Multipaper
    Graduate Students and New Evaluators
  • 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM CST
    Human Services Evaluation Multipaper
    Human Services Evaluation
  • 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM CST
    Internal Evaluation Multipaper
    Internal Evaluation
  • 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM CST
    Leveraging Program Evaluation for Cross-Organizational Collaboration and Decision-Making
  • 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?
    Presenter: Laura R. Peck, PhD – American Journal of Evaluation
    Presenter: Mita Marra, PhD – University of Naples “Federico II”
    Presenter: Michael A. Harnar, PhD (he/him/his) – Journal of MultiDisciplinary Evaluation
    AEA Sponsored Sessions
  • 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM CST
    New modalities for engaging AI as a stakeholder at the table
  • 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM CST
    The Cross-Sector Health Equity Evaluation Framework (CHEEF): A Think Tank for Transformative Evaluation Practice
  • 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM CST
    Transforming climate action through evidence and learning: a multi-perspective invitation to action
  • 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM CST
    Use of Evaluation: Why Management Matters
  • 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM CST
    We Are In This Together: Evaluating the Impact Of/On Community For Translational Research/Research Commercialization Programs

    Presenter: Josh Schnell – RTI, International

    Panelist: Rossana Zetina-Beale

    Panelist: Meaghan McGrath

    Discussant: Jeff Alexander

    Submitter: Josh Schnell – RTI, International

    Panelist: Marisa Eastman, MPH – RTI International

  • 12:15 PM - 1:15 PM CST
    Human Services Evaluation Annual Meeting
  • 12:30 PM - 1:30 PM CST
    Birds of a Feather
  • 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM CST
    Advancement in Teaching Evaluation
    Teaching of Evaluation
  • 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM CST
    Amplify Local Voices: Facilitating Collaborative Evaluation Practice Across Multi-Level Complex Community-Based Initiatives
  • 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM CST
    Behavioral Health Multipaper
    Behavioral Health
  • 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM CST
    Beyond Tokenism: Youth PhotoVoice as Transformative Evaluation Method in Intergenerational Initiatives
  • 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM CST
    Building protected systems for effective evaluation advocacy and maintaining data integrity during rapid institutional change
  • 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM CST
    Design and Analysis of Experiments Multipaper
    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
  • 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM CST
    Health Evaluation Multipaper
    Health Evaluation
  • 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM CST
    How to Avoid Divisive Politization of your Findings while Advancing Equity
  • 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM CST
    Innovative Approaches to Engaging Various Communities in Higher Education Evaluation
    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
  • 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM CST
    Lessons and implications on centering community and shared leadership in evaluation
  • 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM CST
    Mapping Impact: Applying Geospatial Tools for More Effective Program Evaluation
  • 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM CST
    Perspectives on Practicing Culturally Responsive Evaluation with Latina/o/e Communities

    Presenter: Lisa Aponte-Soto, PhD, MHA – Tanoma Consulting, LLC

    Chair: Lisa Aponte-Soto, PhD, MHA – Tanoma Consulting, LLC

    Presenter: Arthur E. Hernandez, PhD – University of the Incarnate Word

    Presenter: Ayesha Boyce, PhD

    Presenter: Alisha Garcia Flores – BECOME

    Presenter: Asma M. Ali, PhD – Loyola University Chicago

    Submitter: Lisa Aponte-Soto, PhD, MHA – Tanoma Consulting, LLC

  • 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM CST
    Qualitative Methods Multipaper
  • 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM CST
    Rethinking Evaluation Education: Innovations from across the World
  • 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM CST
    Using Design Thinking to Improve the Client Intake Process
  • 3:15 PM - 4:45 PM CST
    Closing Plenary Session: Cultivating Curiosity: Collective Reflection and Leading the Future of Evaluation
  • 5:00 PM - 6:15 PM CST
    AEA Send-OFF Celebration