Longer, more in-depth virtual professional development is here! As of July 2011, we are happy to host evaluation’s hottest workshop presenters in Professional Development eStudy. Via this site, you can view and PREregister for upcoming eStudy courses. PD eStudy courses are offered in real-time, live, via webinar, and are 3 or 6 hours long, broken into multiple 90 minute sessions.
Key things to know before registering:
- Unlike our Coffee Break Demonstrations, PD eStudy courses are not recorded
- You need to attend live and be at a computer attached to the internet to participate
- Your registration for an eStudy course covers all sessions for that course
- There will be a short homework assignment, requiring an hour or less of your time, between sessions
- Registration will close five business days in advance of the first session meeting
Registration: Save time and money by learning through live eStudy courses with no travel needed to attend. Registration fees are based on the length of the full eStudy course and are parallel to the registration fees for the workshops when offered live at AEA's annual conference.
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COMPARISON OF eSTUDY REGISTRATION FEES
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NONMEMBER
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STUDENT |
STUDENT NONMEMBER |
| eStudy with 3 Contact Hours Total |
$75
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$100
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$40
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$55
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eStudy with 6 Contact Hours Total |
$150
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$200
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$80
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$110
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One Year of AEA Membership
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$80
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$30
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Upcoming eStudy Courses
eStudy 007: Introduction to Evaluation - Tom Chapel
Dates: Wednesdays March 7, 14, & 21 11:30 AM to 1:30 PM Eastern Time. For one registration fee, participants may attend 1 or all sessions.
Length: 6 total contact hours
Description: This eStudy course will provide an overview of program evaluation for participants with some, but not extensive, prior background in program evaluation. The session will be organized around the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC) six-step Framework for Program Evaluation in Public Health as well as the four sets of evaluation standards from the Joint Commission on Evaluation Standards. The six steps constitute a comprehensive approach to evaluation. While its origins are in the public health sector, the Framework approach can guide any evaluation. The course will touch on all six steps, but particular emphasis will be put on the early steps, including identification and engagement of stakeholders, creation of logic models, and selecting/focusing evaluation questions. Several case studies will be used both as illustrations and as an opportunity for participants to apply the content of the course and work through some of the trade-offs and challenges inherent in program evaluation in public health and human services.
This eStudy will occur in three 2-hour sessions and will include materials sent before, between, and after the sessions.
Day 1 – This session will provide an overview of the evaluation framework steps and
standards and zoom in on the importance of program description and
stakeholders. Participants will work thru a few exercises on building
simple but effective logic models and using those for stakeholder engagement.
Day 2 – This session will discuss the different types and phases of evaluation, show how to
best set your evaluation focus, and then show how to convert that focus into
specific evaluation questions and indicators. Participants will set an
evaluation focus and define questions for some of the same cases used in Session
1.
Day 3 – This session will be an
overview of how to make effective choices of data collection sources and
methods, including mixed methods. Some general issues in analysis and
reporting will also be addressed. Participants will work thru several cases and
illustrations to show how data collections sources and methods fit each
situation.
Presenter: Thomas Chapel is the Chief Evaluation Officer at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta, GA. He serves as a central resource on strategic planning and program evaluation for CDC programs and their partners. Before joining CDC, Tom was Vice-President of the Atlanta office of Macro International where he directed and managed projects in program evaluation, strategic planning, and evaluation design for public and nonprofit organizations. He is a frequent presenter at national meetings, a frequent contributor to edited volumes and monographs on evaluation, and has facilitated or served on numerous expert panels on public health and evaluation topics.
Register: https://www.eval.org/webinar_reg/Registrationtop.asp ($150 full members, $80 student members, $200 nonmembers, $110 student nonmembers)
Last day to register Wednesday February 29, 2012
eStudy 008: Creating Surveys to Measure Performance and Assess Needs - Michelle Kobayashi
Dates: Tuesday & Thursday March 13 & 15, 3:00 PM to 4:30 PM Eastern Time. For one registration fee, participants may attend 1 or both sessions.
Length: 3 contact hours
Description: Surveys for program evaluation, performance measurement, or needs assessment can provide excellent information for evaluators. However, developing effective surveys requires an eye both to unbiased question design as well as to how the results of the survey will be used. Neglecting these two aspects impacts the success of the survey.
This eStudy course will use lecture and homework assignments to review guidelines for survey development. We will use two national surveys, one used for measuring the performance of local governments and the other to assess the needs of older adults, to inform the creation of our own survey instruments.
This eStudy will occur in two 90-minute sessions and will include preparation materials sent before, between, and after the sessions.
Day 1: How to create effective surveys for tracking outcomes and assessing needs, including:
- Choosing the optimal study design and survey mode
- Maximizing response and representation
- Developing accurate and reliable instruments
- Pilot-testing your tool
Day 2: How to report useful results to a wide variety of stakeholders, including:
- Understanding your audiences for survey results
- Developing an analysis and reporting plan
- Using descriptive and inferential statistics
- Incorporating analysis and reporting to facilitate data use (e.g. the use of benchmarks, factor analysis, performance-importance matrices, key driver analysis)
- Sharing survey results (e.g. reports, slideshows, press releases, use of social media)
Presenter: Michelle Kobayashi is co-author of Citizen Surveys: a comprehensive guide to making them matter (International City/County Management Association, 2009). She has over 25 years of experience in performance measurement and needs assessment, and has conducted scores of workshops on research and evaluation methods for community based organizations, local government employees, elected officials and students.
Register: https://www.eval.org/webinar_reg/Registrationtop.asp ($75 full members, $40 student members, $100 nonmembers, $55 student nonmembers)
Last day to register Tuesday March 6, 2012
In-Progress eStudy Courses
eStudy 005: Applications of Correlation and Regression: Mediation, Moderation, and More - Dale Berger
Dates: Wednesdays February 8, 15, 22, & 29, 1:00 PM to 2:30 PM Eastern Time. For one registration fee, participants may attend 1 or all sessions.
Length: 6 total contact hours
Description: Multiple regression is a powerful and flexible tool that has wide applications in evaluation and applied research. Regression analyses are used to describe multivariate relationships, test theories, make predictions with data from experimental or observational studies, and model relationships, including interactions.
Issues we'll explore in this eStudy course include assessing data issues that may impact correlations and regression, selecting models that are appropriate to your data and research questions, preparing data for analysis, running analyses with SPSS, interpreting results, and presenting findings to a nontechnical audience. The facilitator will demonstrate applications from start to finish with live SPSS and Excel. Attendees will be given readings and examples before each session. Detailed handouts include examples and explanations that can be used at home to guide similar applications.
This eStudy course is aimed evaluators with an intermediate level of expertise. Attendees should be comfortable with basic SPSS and basic inferential and descriptive statistics, including correlation and regression.
This course is divided into four 90-minute sessions. Study materials will be provided before sessions.
Day 1 – This session will review basic correlation and regression, and explore factors that may affect the validity and interpretation of analyses with correlations and regression.
Day 2 – This session will focus on the logic of mediation analysis and procedures for conducting analysis with SPSS, interpreting output, and presenting findings.
Day 3 – This session will focus on interactions and moderation analyses with SPSS, interpreting output, and presenting findings.
Day 4 – This session will explore applications of multiple regression and how to present regression findings to a lay audience.
Presenter: Dale Berger of Claremont Graduate University is a lauded teacher of workshops and classes in statistical methods. Recipient of the outstanding teaching award from the Western Psychological Association, he is also the author of "Using Regression Analysis" in The Handbook of Practical Program Evaluation. His statistics website is available at http://wise.cgu.edu.
Registration has now closed.
eStudy 006: Empowerment Evaluation - David Fetterman
Dates: Tuesday & Thursday February 21 & 23, 3:00 PM to 4:30 PM Eastern Time. For one registration fee, participants may attend 1 or both sessions.
Length: 3 contact hours
Description: Empowerment evaluation builds program capacity, fosters program improvement, and produces outcomes. It is used throughout the world, ranging from Australia to Japan and Brazil to New Zealand. Empowerment evaluation teaches people how to help themselves by learning how to evaluate their own programs. The role of the evaluator is that of a coach or facilitator in an empowerment evaluation, since the group is in charge of the evaluation itself. In addition, empowerment evaluation produces both a learning organization and measurable outcomes. This eStudy will introduce you to the steps of empowerment evaluation and tools to facilitate the approach.
This eStudy will occur in two 90-minute sessions and will include preparation assignments and materials sent before, between, and after the sessions.
Day 1 – This session will cover principles guiding empowerment evaluation, such as improvement, capacity building, and accountability. The session will also briefly discuss theories, such as process use and theories of use and action. Concepts covered will include: critical friend, cycles of reflection and action, and a community of learners. This session will also present the steps to plan and conduct an empowerment evaluation, including: 1) establishing a mission or unifying purpose for a group or program; 2) taking stock – creating a baseline to measure future growth and improvement; and 3) planning for the future – establishing goals and strategies to achieve objectives, as well as credible evidence to monitor change.
Day 2 – This session will highlight the use of basic self-monitoring tools such as establishing a baseline, creating goals, specifying benchmarks, and comparing goals and benchmarks with actual performance. In addition, this session will respond to critiques in the literature. The session will also cover how to select appropriate user-friendly technological tools to facilitate an empowerment evaluation, aligned with empowerment evaluation principles. Although questions will be entertained throughout the two sessions, this session will conclude with a formal question and answer period focusing on questions such as: when it is most appropriate to use an empowerment evaluation approach, common challenges, and effective techniques to implement high quality empowerment evaluations.
Presenter: David Fetterman is president and CEO of Fetterman & Associates, an international evaluation consulting firm. He has 25 years’ experience at Stanford University in administration, the School of Education, and the School of Medicine. He is the founder of empowerment evaluation and the author of over 10 books including Empowerment Evaluation Principles in Practice (Guilford) with his collaborator Abraham Wandersman. He is a past-president of the American Evaluation Association and co-Chairs the Collaborative, Participatory and Empowerment Evaluation AEA Topical Interest Group. He is a highly experienced and sought after speaker, facilitator, and evaluator.
Registration has now closed.
Past eStudy Courses
eStudy001: Nonparametric Statistics - Jennifer Catrambone
eStudy002: Utilization-Focused Evaluation - Michael Quinn Patton
eStudy003: An Executive Summary is Not Enough: Effective Reporting Techniques for Evaluators - Kylie Hutchinson
eStudy 004: Social Network Analysis - Kimberly Fredericks