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Session Title: Teaching Program Evaluation for Public Managers
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Panel Session 589 to be held in Redondo on Friday, Nov 4, 8:00 AM to 9:30 AM
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Sponsored by the Teaching of Evaluation TIG
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| Bonnie Stabile, George Mason University, bstabile@gmu.edu
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| Abstract:
This proposed panel is intended to address both the importance and the peculiarities of teaching evaluation in public affairs graduate programs, including Masters Programs in Public Administration and Public Policy, and to consider best practices. The growing surge of interest in program evaluation is perhaps nowhere more important than in the public sector, where policymakers at all levels of government strive to ensure that public programs are effective in an era when both budgets and political discourse are strained. Those who teach public managers to be effective evaluators of government program efforts have an important role to play. Despite the importance of their task, they may have only one semester, or less, to instill in their students both an appreciation for evaluation and an ability to tackle its multiplicity of methodologies with some competence.
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Teaching Analytical Skills: Management, Measurement, Evaluation
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| Maria Aristigueta, University of Delaware, aristigueta@oet.udel.edu
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Maria Aristigueta is Director of the School of Public Policy and Administration,GǿProfessor, and Senior Policy Fellow at the University of Delaware. She is co-editor of the International Handbook of Practice-Based Performance Management (2008) and has written widely on performance measurement and management.
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Clinical or Course-based Approaches to Teaching Evaluation
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| Heather Campbell, Claremont Graduate University, heather.campbell@cgu.edu
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Heather Campbell is Associate Professor at Claremont Graduate University, School of Politics and Economics, Department of Politics and Policy. She has contributed importantly to the field of public affairs in her role as Editor in Chief of the Journal of Public Affairs Education, and as author of articles on many facets of policy analysis and program evaluation. In addition, she has taught program evaluation to current and future public managers using both a clinical approach (with real evaluation projects for real clients) and a purely course-based approach and will present tradeoffs.
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Educating Evaluators in the Public Sphere
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| Kathryn Newcomer, George Washington University, kathryn.newcomer@gmail.com
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Kathryn Newcomer is Director of the Trachtenberg School of Public Policy and Public Administration at the George Washington University in Washington, DC where she teaches program evaluation, performance measurement and policy analysis. She also conducts research and training for federal and local agencies on performance measurement, and has published several books, including Improving Government Performance (1989) and The Handbook of Practical Program Evaluation (3rd edition 2010).
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