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OPEG Events
OPEG has two events, the Spring Exchange and Fall Workshop, each year. Click on the links below to view photos from our events featuring the presenters and lunchtime networking. Where possible, we include names of those pictured to help members get to know one another. If you would like to add or remove a name, please e-mail Rachel Holbert (OPEG Secretary).
Highlights of the 2008 OPEG Fall Workshop
The 2008 Fall Workshop provided an Evaluator's Toolkit that included sessions from Ohio-based presenters on how to use cognitive interviewing, Geographic Information Systems, logic models, questionnaire design, appreciative inquiry, statistics, and questionnaire design. Photos below feature several of the presentations.
Presentation: What Does that Mean to You? Using Cognitive Interviewing to Improve Evaluation - Stacy Scherr, Ph.D.
Presentation: Maps for the Masses: Open Source GIS, Software, and Data - David Norris, M.A.
Presentation: Appreciative Inquiry for Evaluation - Raymond Calabrese, Ph.D., Anne L. Drabczyk, Ph.D., and Susan L. English, Ph.D. (Chester J. Bowling, Ph.D. is not in the photo)
Presentation: Statistics for Evaluators (Basic) - Jerry Bean, Ph.D. (Not in the photo)
Highlights of the 2008 OPEG Spring Exchange
The theme of the 2008 exchange was Policy Evaluation: What is it, who is doing it, and how? Dr. Mary Lou Rush, Executive Director of the Center for Students, Families, and Communities at the Ohio Department of Education, and Dr. Ann McCracken, Director of Evaluation at the Health Foundation of Greater Cincinnati, were the keynote speakers (sitting in photo below). Alyson DeAngelo (M.S.) and Dr. Jerry Walker (standing in photo below) from the Ohio Department of Education were additional presenters.
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Additional presenters shared strategies, resources, and lessons learned from their experiences with policy evaluation as well as general evaluation practice. (Note: Not all presenters were photographed.)
Presentation: Structural equation modeling for evaluators - Jerry Bean, Ph.D.
Presentation: Evaluating legal representation and juvenile court services for incarcerated minority juvenile offenders in Cleveland, Ohio - Christopher Mallett, Ph.D., J.D., LISW (pictured) & Linda Julian, Esq.
Presentation: Best practices: Web-based surveys - Thomas Archer, Ph.D.
Presentation: Evaluation capacity building to get birds of a different feather to fly together - Stacy Scherr, Ph.D., Michelle Litmer, M.A., Alison Donohue, M.S., Britteny Howell, M.A., Jennifer Meek, B.A., and Stacey Farber, Ph.D.
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| R. Thomas Sherba | Thomas Williams |
Presentation: Model utilization in the evaluation of linking clients to services: A methodological review -, M.P.H., M.S. & Thomas Williams, M.A., M.Ed.
Spring Exchange Participants
Highlights of the 2007 OPEG Fall Workshop
Dr. Naomi Robbins, the author of Creating More Effective Graphs, was our Keynote Speaker at the November 16, 2007 Fall Workshop. The theme was Excel-lent Tools for Communicating Results. Marsha Zabecki (OPEG Board Member) also led an introductory session on graphing tools in Excel. Participants got numerous ideas about the "dos and don'ts" in designing readable and useful graphs. Below are photos from the well received and highly interactive event.
Highlights of the 2006 OPEG Spring Exchange
We were very fortunate to have Dr. Mary Piontek as our Keynote Speaker at the May 18, 2007 Spring Exchange. Mary is co-author of Evaluation Strategies for Communicating and Reporting: Enhancing Learning in Organizations and gave a stimulating, well-received presentation on this theme.
Presenters included:
Erik Stewart and Diane Wright whose topic was "SDS is not a Radical 60's Organization: Examples of Board and Agency-Level Communication Regarding the Ohio Outcomes Initiative."
Erik Stewart
Diane Wright
Carl Brun presented, "Documenting Evaluation Decisions from the Proposal Stage to the Final Report.
Participants seemed to enjoy the conference, or at least lunch.
