ARCHIVE: EVENTS
2014 Annual Conference and Pre-conference Workshops
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Panel session
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Biosketches of candidates for office
Pre-conference workshopsEvaluation report of the conference and workshops
2014 April: Using Social Network Analysis to Visualize and Quantify Collaborative Networks
by Gina Cardazone & Ryan Tolman, University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa
Social network analysis (SNA) can be a useful means of evaluating collaborations between individuals, organizations, or other entities. This hands-on demonstration of social network analysis will include an overview of SNA and examples of how SNA has been used in evaluation, as well as a guided introductory step-by-step “tour” of the SNA software program UCINET. The examples will highlight varied approaches to data collection and analysis, with an emphasis on how evaluation studies can benefit from SNA. The step-by-step guided tour will introduce attendees to the basics of preparing and importing data, quantifying and visualizing networks, and presenting their data. Attendees will also be given a brief overview of other SNA software options.
Please note: Attendees who wish to take part in the guided demonstration must bring their own PC laptop computers with UCINET software pre-installed. A 90-day free trial of UCINET is available for download at https://sites.google.com/site/ucinetsoftware/downloads
Date: Tuesday, April 1, 2014
Time: 2:00-5:00 pm
Location: Kaiona Conference Room, Kamehameha Schools Building, 567 S. King St.
Fee: free for H-PEA members and one guest; non-H-PEA members = $30.00 (full-time students $15
2013 Annual Conference and Pre-conference Workshops
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Biosketches of candidates for office
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2013 April: Learn the Basics of Microsoft Access: Creating and Working with Tables and Queries
Evaluators can use Access to manage data—from data entry to creating reports. This two-day workshop will cover the basics of Access database tables and queries. We will guide you through the process by providing hands-on exercises that will give you the knowledge of creating tables and working with sample data to create common types of queries.FACILITATOR: Jason Badua currently works at Hui Ho‘omalu, a program of Partners in Development Foundation, as a Quality Assurance & Improvement Specialist. He graduated from Hawai‘i Pacific University with a Bachelor’s in Business Administration. Jason uses Access to manage and analyze various forms of data in his line of work.
2012 Annual Conference and Pre-conference Workshops
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Candidates for office
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2012 March: Enhance Your Excel Skills: Vlookup and Pivot Tables
Learn the power of Excel’s vlookup (vertical look up) and pivot tables to efficiently manage and analyze data. We’ll walk you through real-life examples and then you will practice using a sample data set (or bring your own data set). We have tips for getting vlookup and pivot table to work on the first try!
FACILITATORS. Monica Stitt-Bergh and Nalani Balutski regularly use Excel to manage and analyze evaluation data. They’re self-taught Excel users and believe in sharing knowledge.
Monica Stitt-Bergh is an assistant specialist at the Assessment Office, University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa. She serves as a consultant for and offers workshops on program-level assessment of student learning and program evaluation. Her classroom experience includes teaching courses on written communication and social science research methodology. She has published articles and book chapters on writing program evaluation, self assessment, and writing-across the curriculum.
Nalani Balutski is the Research & Evaluation Coordinator for Kōkua a Puni Native Hawaiian Student Services with the Hawai‘inuiākea School of Hawaiian Knowledge, University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa. Her research involves Native Hawaiian students within the UH system and she has designed and conducted internal evaluation activities for Title III programs.
2011 Annual Conference and Pre-conference Workshops
Conference program
Keynote speakersStafford Hood
Valerie Yontz, Communication: By Design or Default? PowerPoint presentationPanel session
Papers and posters
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Candidates for officers
Pre-conference workshopsEvaluation report of the conference and workshops
See our Resources page for a link to the National Science Foundation's 2010 User-Friendly Handbook for Project Evaluation.
2010 December: Ernest House Presentation
Short presentation and talk story with Dr. Ernest R. House, a prominent evaluation theorist and practitioner well known for his attention to values and ethics in evaluation. Dr. House has graciously agreed to speak about his work on evaluation standards and how the concepts can be/are being applied or used by evaluators generally and in specific evaluation contexts.
Dr. House may be best known as author of classic works related to values and ethics in evaluation including Evaluating with Validity (1980), Professional Evaluation: Social Impact and Political Consequences (1993), and Values in Evaluation and Social Research (1999, co-authored with Kenneth Howe), and the chapter “Deliberative Democratic Evaluation (New Directions in Evaluation, Issue 85, 2000, co-authored with Kenneth Howe). Even those who have not read Dr. House’s work will recognize the influence of ideas he has championed on the practice of evaluation. For example, his work was foundational for the theme of the 2010 AEA conference which highlighted the three standards of quality identified by Dr. House in Evaluating with Validity -- Truth, Beauty, and Justice. His work is widely cited in the evaluation literature with recent examples found in the contexts of deliberate democratic evaluation, transformative research and ethics, as well as evaluation ethics in working with underserved communities and internationally. A brief bio of Dr. House is reproduced below.
Ernest R. House is Emeritus Professor in the School of Education at the University of Colorado at Boulder. His primary interests are evaluation and policy analysis. Previously, he was an associate professor at the Center for Instructional Research and Curriculum Evaluation (CIRCE) at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. He is the 1989 recipient of the Harold E. Lasswell Prize presented by Policy Sciences and the 1990 recipient of the Paul F. Lazarsfeld Award for Evaluation Theory, presented by the American Evaluation Association. He has authored numerous books and peer reviewed articles on evaluation and policy. He was editor of New Directions in Program Evaluation (1982 to 1985) and has served on the editorial board of several professional journals in evaluation. He has been a visiting scholar at UCLA, Harvard, and New Mexico, as well as in England, Australia, Spain, Sweden, Austria, and Chile. He has served on several advisory boards or committees related to STEM education including: evaluation advisory committee for the Office of Studies and Evaluation at NSF; evaluation advisory committee for the Statewide Systemic Initiatives at NSF; expert panel for review of federal education programs in STEM for the Federal Coordinating Council on Science, Technology and Education; and on the evaluation advisory board for the Education and Human Resources Directorate at NSF. The projects he has led include: audit of the Promotional Gates Program evaluation for the Mayor's Office in New York City (1981), assessment of environmental education policies in Europe for OECD (1992), National Center for Research on Evaluation, Standards and Student Testing (1990-1995) and a study of evaluation issues and policies in a large-scale organization for NSF (1991-1996). He received an A.B. in English at Washington University, an M.S. in Secondary Education at Southern Illinois University, and an Ed.D. at the University of Illinois. (source: http://www7.nationalacademies.org/bose/House%20Biosketch.html)
2010 Annual Conference and Pre-conference Workshops
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Candidates for officers
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Evaluation report of the conference and workshops (PDF) Executive Summary only (PDF)
2009 Conference and Pre-conference Workshops
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Featured speakers
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Candidates for officers
Handouts/slidesHazel Symonette: PowerPoint and Excerpt from article: Cultivating Self as Responsive Instrument
Lois-ellin Datta: Keynote
Panel SessionPaper Sessions
Pre-conference workshop descriptions
- Ho‘omau I Nā ‘Öpio: Recognizing Youth Developmental Assets and Hawaiian Cultural Connectedness, Kathy Tibbetts
- The Five "R's" of Culturally Responsive Evaluation within a Native Hawaiian Context: Relationship, Rigor, Relevance, Resilience, and Responsibility, Anna Ah Sam, Herb Lee, Darlene Martin, & Verlie Ann Wright
- Addressing Data Collection Challenges in a Complex Community-Based Health Evaluation, Gina Cardazone, Landry Fukanaga, & Christy Nishita
Evaluation report of the conference and workshops
2009 April: Roger Chesswas Presentation
H-PEA sponsored lunch and networking with featured speaker Roger Chesswas, Director of Research and Chief Operations Officer for PREL (Pacific Resources for Education and Learning). Roger discussed the evaluation of Pacific-CHILD (Communities with High Standards in Literacy Development), a professional development program aimed at improving classroom practices and increasing student achievement.
2008 Annual Conference and Pre-conference Workshops
Conference Program
Description and Registration Form
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Candidates for Officers
Presentations: Handouts/PowerPoint slides
Conference Evaluation Report
2008 April: Hallie Preskill Presentation
2007 Annual Conference & Pre-conference Workshops
Conference Program
Description and Registration Form
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Presentations: Handouts/PowerPoint slides
- "Practical Program Evaluation: A Program Theory Approach"(Steward Donaldson & Christina Christie)
- "Squishy and Marvin, Same Old/Really Different, 21 Dead Babies, and Other Adventures in Evaluationland" (Lois-ellin Datta)
- "Shifting Evaluation Theory Toward Empiricism: Helping to Ensure Credible and Useful Evaluation" (Christina Christie)
- "What Counts as Credible Evidence in Contemporary Evaluation Practice?" (Steward Donaldson)
2006 Annual Conference & Pre-conference Workshops
Presentation by K. Braun. Learning to Love Logic Models (PowerPoint Slides)
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