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2005 Brisbane

Program

Papers

• Bates, M; Bates, A and Bates, L - Evaluating learning through practice
• Berends, L - Ethics Approval and the Evaluation of Alcohol and Drug Programs
• Chetwin, A - Realistic evaluation of Police practice in reducing burglary
• Corbiere, K and Hanwright, J - Are we there yet? The distance travelled with the school improvement approach in Queensland
• Funnell, S - Keynote Address
  Reflections on Evaluation Practice and on the 2005 Conference: Some observations from a grumpy old evaluator
• Harvey, G and Hurworth, R - Looking at Program Sustainability: Identifying Factors in Two Educational Initiatives in Victoria
• Keast, R and Brown, K - The Network Approach to Evaluation: Uncovering Patterns, Possibilities and Pitfalls
• Lake, R - Black Belt Evaluators
• Lake, R - Models for Board Performance Evaluation
• Leighton, B - Around the moon and back?: Evaluation in the Canadian federal government
• Lennie, J - Increasing the rigour and trustworthiness of participatory evaluations: Learnings from the field
• McKenzie, R - Targeting what matters in health promotion evaluation - using the RE-AIM approach to identify success in 'real world' settings
• Miller, W and Lennie, J - Empowerment evaluation: A practical method for evaluating a school breakfast program
• Neale, J and Bell, S - Evaluating Equity and Diversity Initiatives: Tools and Approaches
• Norris, R - Using History as an Evaluation Tool
• O'Brien, T et al.- Evaluating Human Service Delivery through Client Outcomes
• Premakanthan, S - Defining Organizational Performance Results Using Standardized Logic-Models
• Richter, R - Performance Evaluation in the Community Sector: a practical approach
• Sharp, C and Stock, H - Evaluation of the Contribution of Governance to Organisational Performance
• Smith, L - Foggy journeys: When the rubber hits the road
• Turner, D; Toms, K and Wolf, A - The Same Only Different: Approaches to Ethics in Professional Practice in Australasia and North America

2004 Adelaide

Program

Papers

• Aylward, P - Evaluation of the SA Component of The National Suicide Prevention Strategy: A PAR Approach Across Four Project Sites Mindmap
• Baker, E - In The Doldrums: Just Where Are We Going With Sustainability Reporting?
• Ballantyne, C - Online or On Paper: An Examination of the Differences in Response and Respondents to a Survey Administered in Two Modes
• Barlow, A - Considering Diverse Perspectives when Evaluating Quality in Health Care (refereed)
• Beere, D - Evaluation Capacity Building: A Tale of Value-Adding (refereed)
• Bird, S; Kurowski, W and Dickman, G - Evaluating a Model of Service Integration for Older People with Complex Health Needs (refereed)
• Cameron, G - Evidence in an Indigenous World
• Cameron, G - Whole Population Services: Evaluating Their Impact on Maori
• Chesterton, P and De Silva, S - Developing Ownership in a Cross-Country Multi-Stakeholder Evaluation
• Cockayne, N et al - Evaluation Methods for a Multi-Strategic National Consumer Education Program
• Conley Tyler, M - A Fundamental Choice: Internal or External Evaluation? (refereed)
• Cortis, N - Evaluating ‘Performance’ in Family Welfare Services: Service Users’ Perspectives
• Cosgrave, R; de Boer, M and Beynon, P - A Model for the Estimation of Fiscal Savings from the Jobs Jolt Package
• Crilley, G; Van Ruth, F and March, H - Children on Service Quality: Results from Four Diverse Program Evaluations (roundtable)
• Crisante, L - Evaluation in Multicultural Populations: Expanding Ideas About Evidence-Based Practice (refereed)
• Dawe, S And Stanwick, J - Systematic Review of Research: Appraising the Quality of Research and Evaluation (roundtable)
• Derrick, J - Developing a monitoring and evaluation system for national natural resource management programs
• Dixon, R and Widdowson, D - Evaluating School-Based Initiatives: The Role of School Culture
• Duckworth, S; Smith, L And Young, B - What Does the Public Really Think About Consultation?
• Earle, D - Monitoring and Evaluating the Tertiary Education Strategy 2002/07 (refereed)
• English, B; Brown, C and Halsmit, M - COPS: Can They Help Separated Families?
• Fidock, J and Caroll, J - Facilitating Co-Evolutionary Adaptation Through Evaluation: The Case of an Information System Project in a Public Sector Organization
• Fisher, K; Thomson,C and Valentine, K - Evaluating Interagency Policy Strategies: Experience from the Families First Evaluation
• Fitzpatrick, A et al - Evaluation of the New Zealand Youth Suicide Prevention Strategy
• Gomes,A and Daly,C - What Do You Need To Be a Highly Effective Social Science Evaluator?
• Green,H; Swindell, J and Gomes, A - Evaluation of Heartlands Services
• Hawkins, P - Presidential address
• Hurley, C and Rankine, G - Evaluation in Black and White: Two Perspectives on the Evaluation of an Aboriginal Access and Equity Project in the Inner South of Adelaide
• Hurworth, R - The Use of Telephone Focus Groups for Evaluations: A Critique
• Jolley, G et al - A Systematic Review of Evaluations Conducted in Adelaide Community Health Services
• Kalucy, L - Evaluation and Divisions of General Practice
• Kim, Y and Oh, D - Evaluating National R&D Programs in Korea
• Lake. R - Evaluation Capacity Building: One Simple & Effective Tool (refereed)
• Lawrence, J et al - 'Like Herding Cats': Evaluating Quality for Continuous Improvement in Chronic Condition Self Management Training Programs
• Liedel, H - Thematic Review of Women in Prison – Mixing the Dough for a Better Bake
• Lilja, L and Lazenby, K- Beyond the triple-bottom line: measuring and reporting on sustainability
• List, D - Combining Program Logic With Scenario Networks
• List, D - Evaluating the effectiveness of websites
• Martin, J; Kerslake-Hendricks, A and Gomes, A - Evaluation of the Strategies for Kids-Information for Parents (SAKIP) Program
• Masters, S - Shifting Sands: Articulating a New Relationship Between Funders, Funded Agencies and Evaluation
• Mcgrath, R and Crilley, G - Collaborative Evaluation: Examining a Partnership Between UniSA and Minda Incorporated
• Mitchell, J; Hamilton, M and Hayman, C - The Comparative Value of Three Different Methodologies for Measuring the Return on Investment from a Leadership Program (refereed)
• Morgan, D and Lawrence, J - Multi-Modal Evaluation: Meeting the Challenges of Evaluation for Indigenous Communities?
• Neale, J; Owens, J and Andrews, K - Evaluating an Evaluation Course (refereed)
• Orpin, P - What Do You Want to Know and Why Do You Want to Know It?
• Owen, J - Can Accountability Systems Enhance Program Quality?
• Pepin, G - Diversity: Enough to Include Services Users in the Evaluation Process or Not?
• Pilla, J et al-The Evaluator’s Peril: Skating on Thin Ice
• Plummer, F; Ewing, R and Smith, D - Evaluation Voices and Perspectives: Using Patton’s Utilization Focused Model (panel)
• Premakanthan, S - An Industrial Engineering Approach to Defining Organizational Performance Metrics
• Roberts, B - Authenticity on the Line: Issues from a Work-in-Progress with a Self-Help and Mutual Support Organisation (roundtable)
• Roberts, B and Berends, L-Evaluating Intersectoral Capacity Building Initiatives in Alcohol and Drug Services
• Roberts, D - Making the Most of Your Work: Reporting Strategies (roundtable)
• Ross, I and Barr, A - Putting in Place a Performance Management Framework: Reflections on a Functional Model
• Ross, I and Butera, R - Evaluation of the Walking School Bus Program: Can We Explain the Outcomes? (refereed)
• Rutter, A et al - Satisfying Competing Stakeholder Needs in a Depression Awareness Program
• Saunders, M - Do We Hear the Voices? The ‘Presence’ of Evaluation Theory and Practice in Social Development (keynote)
• Scott Cawrse, S and Walsh, I D’A - Cultivating Communities of Practice to Build Organisational Capacity in Evaluation (refereed)
• Sharp, C - Organisational Evaluation Capability Hierarchy Models in Self-Diagnosis (refereed)
• Shrimpton, B and Hurworth, R - New Challenges in Evaluation: Reviewing a Computer Game Designed for Young People with Psychosis
• Smith, E and Bennie, N - Ethics in Action (Research) (workshop)
• Stopher, S - “A Steep Learning Curve” – The Creation of Centrelink’s Learning Evaluation Network
• Tauri, J - Key Issues in the Development of Research and Evaluation Guidelines for Maori
• Turner, D - How Do You Get Through to Them? Engaging with Stakeholders on Difficult Issues (roundtable)
• Turner, S - Evaluation Enrichment Through Data Warehouse Mining
• Watson, I-Borders of the Soul: Exploring the Limits and Evaluating Diversity? (keynote)
• Watts, H; McGloin, E and Rain, A - Developing an evaluation culture in a natural resource management arena
• Wearne, N; Bycroft, P and Moores, G - Evaluation as the key tool of a self correcting organisational system
• Wilczynski, A; and Wallace, A - Research and Evaluation with 'Hard to Reach' Groups: Key Challenges and Strategies
• Wood, C and Walmsley, C - Measuring Organizational Performance
• Yik, W-F and Arthur, S - Link Up Program for the Stolen Generations - Grounds for Continued Funding
• Young, J - Translating Evaluation into Action for a Northern Territory Wide Change Management Initiative Across Both Hospital and Community Sectors

Program

Papers

• Brown, N et al - Keeping evaluation safe?: Reflections on the Use of Advisory Groups in the Public Sector
• Craven. R - Keynote Address: Trekking Beyond: Re-imagining a Future Role of Evaluation for Making a Real Difference for Indigenous Students
• Craven, R- Can Evaluating Indigenous Students' Aspirations Make a Difference?: Results of an Evaluation Study
• Dawe, S - Basing Policy and Practice on Sound Evidence
• Ferguson, L - Developing an Evaluative Culture – What Does it Actually Take?
  
• Gervais, M - A Journey Through Four Evaluation Projects With the Same Analysis Framework
• Gleisner, S; Mascharenas, A and Wansbrough, S - Improving Evaluative Activity in the New Zealand State Sector
• Kelly, S- Evaluating the Role of Formal Training in Developing an Evaluation Capability in a Large Organisation
• Sharp, C - Organisational Governance and Directors Effectiveness Self-Evaluation Research Tool
• Smith, G - Risk Management and Performance Management
• Smits, R - The Early Childhood Strategic Plan
• Stame, N - Keynote Address: Evaluation in the Policy Context: the European Experience
• Stopher, S - Lessons Learned - Reflections on a Training Evaluation
  
• Talboys, S - Developing an Approach to Summative Meta-Evaluation
• Thomas, D - Developing Relevant and Robust Indicators to Measure Programme Outcomes
• Vasiliauskas, E - How Evaluation and Community Governance make a Difference to Planning and Decision Making in a Small Community
• Ward, L; Robinson, V and Parr, J - Understanding Teacher Practice Through Evaluation: A Complex Task
• Williams, P and Holland, E - Evaluation Action and Reaction: A Case Study in Public Dental Health Services

Program

Papers

• Armstrong, A et al - Difficulties Of Developing And Using Social Indicators To Evaluate Government Programs: A Critical Review
• Armstrong, A and Rutter, A - Evaluating The Success Of A Crime Prevention Strategy Targeting Community Capacity & Participation
• Baker, E - Preparing For Evaluation: Lessons From Capacity-Building For Natural Resource Management
• Barber, E and Miley, F - Monitoring Program Progress: More Than A Series Of Feedback Loops
• Benn, S - Integrating Human and Ecological Sustainability
• Berger-Bartlett, H and Craig, T - The Challenges Of Stakeholder Participation: Examples Of Evaluation Projects From The Youth Justice Context
• Chetwin, A; Waldegrave, T and Simonsen, K - Interweaving Cultural Perspectives: An Evaluation Within New Zealand’s Criminal Justice System
• Crawford, J - Triple Bottom Line Performance: Finding The Balance
• Cummings, R - Rethinking Evaluation Use
• Dallas, D; Ngarimu, K and Roberts, D - Working In Partnership: Evaluation And The Whanau Development Project
• Dawe, S - Evaluating Training And Learning Practices In Large Australian Firms
• Delaney, M; Hill, E and Bamby, R - Perspectives On Evaluating A Pilot Mentor Program For Young Offenders
• Fernbach, M and Harvey, G - From Silos To Systems:Transforming And Organisation's Evaluative Culture
• Fisher, K - Social Policy Accountability Through Cost Savings Evaluation
• Goodrick, D - Bulding Capacity In Evaluation: The Role Of Evaluation Planning
• Greene, J - Towards Evaluation as a ‘Public Craft’ and Evaluators as Stewards of the Public Good or On Listening Well
• Hodge, W and Milne, C - Working With The Stakeholders: Combining Participatory Methods With Hard Data To Evaluate Three Environmental Programs
• Hurworth, R; Harvey, G and Rutter, A - Empowering Older Adults Through Engagement In The Evaluation Process: Cases From Three Adult And Community Education Projects In Victoria
• Kelly, L - International Advocacy: Measuring Performance And Effectiveness
• Kenny, S - Issues For Evaluation & Community Development
• Ker, I - Can Evaluation Be Too Prescriptive? Appraisal In The Age Of The Triple Bottom Line
• Kushner, S - Keynote Address : The Object of One’s Passion: Engagement and Community in Democratic Evaluation
• Lennie, J; Simpson, L and Hearn, G - Can Participatory Evaluation Of New Communication Technology Initiatives Assist In Building Sustainable And Inclusive Rural Communities?
• Milne, S and van Daatselaar, S - Children's Experiences of Evaluation: Making A Difference
• Murray, P - How Well Are Publicly Funded Treeplanting Schemes Being Assessed?
• Rahmani, Z and Crosier, T - Evaluation In Action: Assessing The Literacy And Numeracy Training Programme For Job Seekers
• Rajan, R et al - Evaluating The Social And Economic Consequences Of Workplace Injury And Illness In New Zealand
• Roberts, K and Jennings, J - Evaluation Can Be Liberating
• Rogers, P - Reflections On Learning About Australasian Evaluation Theory And Practice
• Sarre, R- Rethinking Corporate Practice And Governance In The Light Of Recent Corporate Collapses
• Stewart-Weeks, M - Assessment Of Evaluation Strategies And Tools For Place Management And Community Renewal Projects
• Stone, W and Hughes, J - Measuring Social Capital: Towards A Standardised Approach
• Thomas, D - Evaluating The Cultural Appropriateness Of Service Delivery In Multi-Ethnic Communities
• Volkmer, R E and Engelhardt, D - Professional's And Client's Perspectives: Why Clients Don't Use, Or Use Only Once, Community-Based Child Health Services
• Webb, J - Responding To Diversity: Assisting Higher Education Students Develop Written Communication Skills
• Woodland, J and Hind, J - Capacity Building Evaluation Of Capacity Building Programs

1999 Perth

• Annison, J - Counted but Rarely Consulted: The Involvement of People Who Have an Intellectual Disability as Research Respondents
• Bennett, C; McDonald, B and Rowe, - Evaluating Large Scale Programs with Many Components
• Bennett, J - Benchmarking in Education for General Practice: The Challenge for Quality Improvement in The Royal Australian College of General Practitioners Training Program (RACGP—TP)
• Brandi, A - Audit and Evaluation:  A Partnership in Improving Performance
• Brooke, T - Extending the boundaries of consumer participation: Involving significant others in service evaluation
• Bunn, G - Characteristics of Taha Maori Tauira (Patients) at Queen Mary Hospital: A Multi-Cultural Perspective
• Burgess, K - The Mitchell Library Finite Spaces, Infinite Demands
• Butterworth, P; Sharman, T and Southwell, A - Evaluating Job Network: Measuring Service Quality
• Chesterton, P - Issues in the Evaluation of Information Technology Based Educational Programs
• Chou, S-C et al - Improving Residential Aged Care: Understanding Factors Influencing Care Staff Satisfaction
• Clarkson, J P et al - “Smarter Than Smoking” – Evaluation Of A Campaign To Reduce Teenage Smoking In Western Australia
• Clarkson, J P et al - Evaluating the Effectiveness of Health Sponsorship of Sport, Arts and Racing
• Clifford, A L - Using Evaluation to Inform Strategic Planning, Organisational Management and Reporting in a Large Public Service Organisation
• Compton, D; Slevin, T and Baizerman, M - A Three-Year-Old Collaborative Evaluation Training Model Linking Community-Based Non-Profits to Universities: A Practical Scheme Which Can Be Adapted
• Copeland, V - Care and Management of the Taxes: A Conceptual Evaluation
• Corderoy, R et al - SOS: A Subject Online Survey Engine to Support Improvement in Teaching and Learning
• Couch, M; Warr D J and Walsh, J - Homeless Youth and True Stories:  How Commitment to the Dissemination of Research Results Provides Opportunities For Evaluation
• Cummings, R and Ballantyne, C - Student Feedback on Teaching:  Online! On target?
• Dart, J - Storytelling to Help Practitioners Make Sense of their Program’s Impact
• Dart, J and Rogers, P - Symposium: Pushing the Boundaries of Evaluation Through Stories of Evaluation Practice
• Davey, V.R. and Dissinger, M - Harnessing Effective Consumer Feedback
• de Boer, M and Roorda, M - Implementing an Experimental Design Methodology: Practical Issues for Evaluators
• de Mel, L - Pushing the Envelope: Issues, Challenges and Achievements (A case study of a performance examination undertaken by the Auditor General, Accommodation and Support Services Provided to Young People unable to Live at Home)
• Delaney, M and Dovey, S - Is The Public Sector an Employer of Choice? — The Challenge of Designing an Organisational Climate Survey for a Diverse Public Sector
• Elvins, R - Evaluating Policy Advice
• Fishpool, K - Data Collection on Outputs and Outcomes
• Fulcher, H and Lacar, J - Evaluating the Integration of Two Government Agencies
• Grzyb, H and Ventriss, H - Natural Resource Management - An Evaluation Model
• Johansson, K - A Practical Approach to Performance Monitoring
• Ker, I - Level Playing Fields or Levelled Minefields: Exploding Some Myths of Comparative Assessment
• Kriven, F - The Significance in Evaluation Theory and Practice of the Need to Produce Recommendations
• Lee, A - Contracting Evaluations in the Area of Domestic Violence Legislation: Challenges and Responses
• Ling, P - Frames of Reference for Evaluating Educational Technologies
• Liu, C - Ethics in Health Promotion and Its Evaluation
• Livingstone, J - The Place of Program Clarification in Evaluation: The Experience of Evaluating a Single, Exemplary School Nurse Program
• Locke, S - Policy, Delivery and Impact: A Decade of New Zealand Small Business Failure
• McKenna, H - Evaluation in Centrelink
• Mickell, K - Empowerment Evaluation: Reconciling the Theory with the Practic - An Evaluation of a Peer Sexuality Support Programme
• Milne, C - Evaluation: The Grim Reaper and Safety
• Milne, C and Flaherty, B - Evaluation of a Mentoring Program for Young Juvenile Crime Offenders – Challenges for Evaluation Design
• Pittams, G - Evaluation in Partnership – Some Thoughts on Methodological Aspects of Evaluation at Iwi Level
• Rich, K - An Evaluation of the Commonwealth’s Capital Grants Program for Schools
• Robertson, A - Are You Getting Value for Money from Your Tax Dollars? Evaluation of Training in Government Departments in New Zealand
• Robertson, B - Is Driver Testing a Valid Form of Evaluation?
• Rogers, P and McDonald, B - Three Achilles Heels of Program Theory Evaluation
• Sankar, M - From External to Internal Evaluation: A Boon or A Curse
• Stafford, B - Challenging the Boundaries: Evaluating Teachers' Professional Development in the Light of the Learning of Their Students
• Tilley, N - Evaluation and Evidence-(Mis)led Policy
• Webb, J; Zhang, C and Sillitoe, J - Evaluation: Challenging Boundaries : Evaluation Of Study Skills Material for Students Studying Microeconomics Principles and Macroeconomics Principles
• Williams, P - Partnering Between Government and Its Program Evaluators
• Wilson, J - Evaluation of Lifelong Learning: Questions from Three Perspectives
• Worthen, B - Abstract of AES Keynote Address: Critical Challenges That Confront the Evaluation Enterprise
• Young, J et al - Social Marketing as a Tool to Stop Child Abuse and Neglect