| Session Title: Managing Program Evaluation: Towards Explicating a Professional Practice |
| Multipaper Session 470 to be held in Sebastian Section L4 on Friday, Nov 13, 9:15 AM to 10:45 AM |
| Sponsored by the Evaluation Managers and Supervisors TIG |
| Chair(s): |
| Don Compton, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, dcompton@cdc.gov |
| Discussant(s): |
| Ann Maxwell, United States Department of Health and Human Services, ann.maxwell@oig.hhs.gov |
| Laura Feldman, University of Wyoming, lfeldman@uwyo.edu |
| Abstract: Our recent issue of New Directions for Evaluation is Managing Program Evaluation: Towards Explicating a Professional Practice. It was designed to make explicit this practice, and to address our profession with three focal questions: Should we recognize managing evaluation as a core professional expertise? Should we promote this by legitimizing the preparation of experts and expertise? And, if so, what should be the curriculum, pedagogy and learning sites? These three questions are the substance of this multipaper presentation. Baizerman begins with an overview of the purpose, core concepts and insights in the issue, and will be followed by authors of three of the issue's case studies who will present the central themes of their work. Then the co-leaders of the Evaluation Managers and Supervisors TIG, which sponsored the issue and the session, will serve as discussants. Discussion with presenters and participants about the focal questions, the case studies and the issue in general will conclude the session. |
| Overview of the Issue |
| Michael Baizerman, University of Minnesota, mbaizerm@umn.edu |
| Baizerman begins the session with an overview of the purpose, core concepts and insights in the issue. |
| Managing Studies Versus Managing for Evaluation Capacity Building |
| Don Compton, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, dcompton@cdc.gov |
| Compton provides the key themes from his case study of managing for evaluation capacity building at the American Cancer Society. |
| Managing Evaluation in a Federal Public Health Setting |
| Michael Schooley, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, mschooley@cdc.gov |
| Michael Schooley, an experienced manager of a heterogeneous evaluation group at CDC, discusses managing in a federal health setting. |
| Slaying Myths, Eliminating Excuses: Managing for Accountability by Putting Kids First |
| Robert Rodosky, Jefferson County Public Schools, robert.rodosky@jefferson.kyschools.us |
| Rodosky and Munoz present their case study of managing an evaluation unit in the Jefferson County public schools. |