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Handout from session at 2011 AEA/CDC Summer Evaluation Institute

Description: Program personnel and evaluators have a unique responsibility and opportunity to engage in the systematic assessment and improvement of organizational collaboration, which has become the most widely championed vehicle for precipitating efficiency, innovation and essential organizational outcomes in the 21st century. This workshop aims to increase participants’ capacity to quantitatively and qualitatively examine the development of strategic alliances and inter-professional collaboration using the Collaboration Evaluation Improvement Framework (CEIF). Together, participants will apply CEIF associated data collection, analysis, and reporting techniques to their own contexts; such methods and approaches are currently being used in the formative and developmental evaluation of grant-funded health care coalitions, medical and dental programming, and other collaborative endeavors including the federally sponsored K-16 Safe Schools/Healthy Students initiative.

Audience: Attendees with a basic understanding of organizational change theory/systems theory and familiarity with mixed methodological designs

Rebecca Woodland has been a facilitator of workshops and courses for adult learners for more than 10 years. She was a top-10 workshop presenter at Evaluation 2008 & 2009, lauded for her hands-on, accessible, and immediately useful content. As a principal investigator, she is responsible for the evaluation and development of organizational collaboration for an array of small and large-scale, grant-funded organizational improvement initiatives. Her most recent publications on the topic of organizational collaboration have been published in the American Journal of Evaluation (Gajda, 2004; Gajda & Koliba, 2008), Journal of Nursing Regulation (Anderson, et. al. in press) and the International Journal of Public Administration (Koliba & Gajda, 2009). Rebecca is currently an Associate Professor of Educational Leadership at the University of Massachusetts Amherst

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