Special Announcements
 The Interdisciplinary Ph.D. in Evaluation program at Western Michigan University is pleased to announce a special Evaluation Café ("Contemporary Thinking About Causation in Educational Evaluation: A Dialogue with Tom Cook and Michael Scriven"), Friday, October 24, 2008, from noon until 2 p.m. in the Bernhard Center, room 105. more information
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Events
The next Evaluation Cafe will be Tuesday, September 16, 2008 at noon. Lori Wingate — Project Manager, The Evaluation Center, WMU will present "The New Metaevaluation Standards: Metaevaluation Joins Utility, Feasibility, Propriety, and Accuracy Among the Program Evaluation Standards"
Streaming videos of past Evaluation Café events are now available for viewing in your Web browser. Catch up on any you have missed by clicking the "Watch the Video" links located beneath the event photos on our past events pages which are linked from the EvalCafé home page.
Notices
Customized Employment Supports (CES), developed to help addiction treatment patients attain rapid placement in paid jobs and increase their legitimate earnings, which was evaluated by Dr. Stephen Magura and colleagues, has been listed in the National Register of Evidence-Based Programs and Practices (NREPP). online summary available
 The tenth issue of the Journal of MultiDisciplinary Evaluation is now online.
The third working paper of the Kalamazoo Promise evaluation project is now online.
Gary Miron publishes The Shifting Notion of "Publicness" in Public Education. In B. Cooper, J. Cilbulka, & L. Fusarelli (Eds.) Handbook of Education Politics and Policy. New York: Routledge.
Stephen Magura and Jessaca Spybrook were primary authors or co-authors of five posters presented at the 70th Annual Scientific Meeting of the College for Problems of Drug Dependence (CPDD), June 14-19, San Juan, P.R. The 2008 Abstract book may be viewed at http://www.cpdd.vcu.edu/
Daniela C. Schroeter, IDPE student, recently published Training Competencies Through Internet Supported Cooperative Learning. more information
Dr. Chris L. S. Coryn recently published his first book, titled Models for Evaluating Scientific Research. more information
Double Trouble in Recovery (DTR), a mutual aid fellowship for people in recovery from both addiction and mental illness, which was evaluated by Dr. Stephen Magura and colleagues, has been listed in the National Register of Evidence-Based Programs and Practices (NREPP): more information
Dr. Gary Miron, and other top scholars in the field of evaluation, recently published School Choice: Evidence and Recommendations, a comprehensive collection of 10 policy briefs under the umbrella of choice. more information
Dr. Chris Coryn, two IDPE students, and former IDPE director E. Jane Davidson, recently published a paper in the Evaluation Journal of Australasia [Coryn, C. L. S., Gugiu, P. C., Davidson, E. J., & Schröter, D. C. (2008). Needs assessment in hidden populations using respondent-driven sampling. Evaluation Journal of Australasia, 7(2), 3-11.].
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