The purpose of the Evaluation Journal of Australasia (known as EJA), (ISSN 1035-719X), is to further the aims of the AES in promoting the theory, research and
practice of evaluation. To do so it publishes articles of professional merit on any
subject connected with evaluation, together with news and information of professional
interest to members of AES.
All members and other people involved in the practice, study
or teaching of evaluation are invited to submit articles, reports, reviews or news items
for publication. Guidelines for contributors can
be downloaded as a PDF file (36kb).
The Evaluation Journal of Australasia is published
twice a year. Issues of the Journal are available below for downloading, six months
after publication.
Library subscriptions for two issues is $143.00 (incl. GST).
Overseas orders are $130.00 (AUD)
Editor
Associate Professor Rosalind Hurworth
Director, Centre for Program Evaluation
Faculty of Education,
University of Melbourne
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Vol 10 No 2 may be downloaded as a complete document (1.76 MB) from here,
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Social transformation
and evaluation - Donna M Mertens
Maximising evaluation influence in an international development donor agency - Stacey Tennant
Evaluating a print-based ‘sustainability
by stealth’ guide in the project home
industry - Gabrielle Kuiperand
Grahame Collier
The development of benchmarking policies and practices in education - Betina Przybylak
Maximising participation in international
community-level project evaluation:
a strength-based approach - John Donnelly
Book reviews - Edited by Darrel N Caulley
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Vol 10 No 1 may be downloaded as a complete document (2.2 MB) from here,
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Developing evaluation capacity and use in
the New Zealand philanthropic sector:
What can be learnt from the US experience? - Michael Blewden
The political inherency of
evaluation -
The impact of politics on the outcome of 10 years of
evaluative scrutiny of Australia’s mandatory detention policy - David Slattery
Additionality: a useful way to
construct the counterfactual
qualitatively?- Julie Hind
Evaluating peer-based youth
programs: barriers and enablers - Roanna Lobo, Alexandra McManus, Graham Brown,
Janina Hildebrand, andBruce Maycock
Lessons learnt from an evaluation of
an unexploded ordnance removal
program in Lao PDR - Jo Durham and
B-K Tan
Book reviews - Edited by Darrel N Caulley
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Vol 9 No 2 may be downloaded as a complete document (2.3 MB) from here,
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Benchmarking: a process for
learning or simply raising the bar? - Michael J Cole
Evaluating anti-money laundering
initiatives: a country perspective - Dulacha Galgallo Barako and Alistair Brown
Lifting the lens: developing a logic
for a complicated policy- Mathea Roorda and Heather Nunns
Issues concerning the delivery
of surveys: an institutional view - Chenicheri S Nair,
Phillip Adams and
Patricie Mertova
Why do many international
development evaluations have a
positive bias? Should we worry?- Michael Bamberger
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Vol 8 No 1 may be downloaded as a complete document (2.3 MB) from here,
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Triangulation in action:
Mixed method evaluation of a professional development program
for teachers of students with special education needs - Eileen Piggot-Irvine
Evaluation of an action research project in
workforce development and organisational
change: Healthy Ageing—Nutrition - Gwyneth M Jolley
Promoting evaluation culture:
The development and implementation of
an evaluation strategy in the Queensland
Department of Education, Training and the Arts - John Hanwright and
Sharnie Makinson
An examination of the value of the
Victorian Government’s investment logic map as a tool for front-end evaluation of
investment proposals - Aaron Doty
Indigenous evaluation:
A strategic objective of the
Australasian Evaluation Society - Nan Wehipeihana |
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Vol 7 No 2 may be downloaded as a complete document (1.9 MB) from here,
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Needs assessment in hidden populations
using respondent-driven sampling - Chris LS Coryn;
P Cristian Gugiu;
E Jane Davidson and
Daniela C Schröter
Utilisation of findings from the evaluation
of a major primary mental health care
initiative in Australia - Fay Kohn;
Jane Pirkis;
Belinda Morley;
Lucio Naccarella and
Grant Blashki
Evaluating a community
initiative with a focus on
Indigenous health - Jenny Neale and
Aliitasi Tavila
Ethical decision-making
in evaluation - Lynda Berends
Making sense of
experience - Bridget Roberts |
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Vol 7 No 1 may be downloaded as a complete document (1.9 MB) from here,
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Youth participation in evaluation - Pam St Leger and
Catherine Bell
The fate of recommendations - Glenn Wheeler
Targeting what matters in
health promotion evaluation - Rosemary McKenzie,
Lucio Naccarella,
Andrew Stewart and
Catherine Thompson
Contribution analysis - Fiona Kotvojs and
Bradley Shrimpton
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Vol 6 No 2 may be downloaded as a complete document (5.1 MB) from here,
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‘What if’: the counterfactual in
program evaluation - Rick Cummings
The joint outcomes of a ‘citizens’
jury’ workshop in North Sulawesi,
Indonesia - Anna Straton
Challenging times for
evaluation of international
development assistance - Masafumi Nagao
Economic evaluation of R&D
investment in natural resource
management - Peter Chudleigh,
Sarah Simpson,
Nick Schofield
Reconciling tensions between
principles and practice in
Indigenous evaluation - John Scougall |
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Vol 6 No 1 may be downloaded as a complete document (4.8 MB) from here,
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AES 2005 International Conference keynote address: Reflections on evaluation practice and on the 2005 conference: some observations from a grumpy old evaluator - Sue Funnell
Evaluation for management and development: A case study of an aid program in Papua New Guinea - Jeff Bost
Increasing the rigour and trustworthiness of participatory evaluations: learnings from the field - June Lennie
Exploring program sustainability: identifying factors in two educational initiatives in Victoria - Graeme Harvey and Rosalind Hurworth
A conceptual framework for making evaluation support meaningful, useful and valuable - Chris LS Coryn
Methodolgy Update: Reviews of two methods texts - Rosalind Hurworth
REVIEW: Encyclopedia of Evaluation - reviewed by: Dr Darrel N Caulley |
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Vol 5 No 2 may be downloaded as a complete document (3.4 MB) from here,
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Measuring success:
Factors impacting on the implementation and use of
performance measurement within Victoria’s human
services agencies - Paul Ramage and
Anona Armstrong
Empowerment evaluation:
A practical method for evaluating a national school
breakfast program - Wayne Miller and
June Lennie
Fly high, go deep, add value:
Characteristics of ‘black belt’
evaluators - Robert Lake
Evaluating an evaluation
course - Jenny Neale and
Karilyn Andrew
Evaluation capacity-building:
A tale of value-adding - Diana Beere
In search of a program logic for the
evaluation of corporate governance
and organisational performance - Colin A. Sharp and
Herbert Stock
PEW: ‘dances with
budgies’:
The development of the Planning and
Evaluation Wizard—a cautionary tale - Paul Aylward,
Charlie Murray, Richard Cooke and
Maryanne Martin |

Vol 5 No 1,
September 2005 may be downloaded as a complete document (3.4 MB) from here,
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A stagecraft of New Zealand
evaluation - Neil T Lunt and Ian G Trotman
Evaluation: what is it really for? A
framework for examining issues of evaluation purpose and use - Anne Barlow
The development of a logic
model for the Protection Against Family Violence Act: an incremental approach - Janice Laycock
Satisfying competing stakeholder
needs in a depression awareness project - Anthea Rutter, Maggie McGuiness, Suresh Sundram, Wayne
Chamley, Kylee Bellingham, Tom Trauer, Neil Cole and Catherine MacBean
Managing stakeholder relations in
multi-site, multi-layered evaluations - Tim Wyatt, Robert Carbines and Leone Robb
Role dualisms during fieldwork. An
examination of two evaluations. - Rosalind Hurworth and Andrea Argirides
The comparative
value of three different methodologies for measuring the return on investment from a leadership program - John Mitchell, Margaret Hamilton and Catherine Hayman |
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Vol 4 Nos 1 & 2,
March/April 2005 may be downloaded as a complete document (2.9 MB) here,
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A fundamental choice: internal and
external evaluation? - Melissa Conley-Tyler
'A balancing act': resolving multiple
stakeholder interests in program evaluation - Anne Markiewicz
Cultivating communities of
practice to build organisational capacity: a case study of the Philippines-Australia Basic
Education Assistance for Mindanao (BEAM) Project - Scott Cawrse and Ian D'Arcy Walsh
An Organisational
Evaluation Capability Hierarchy Model for self-diagnosis - Colin A Sharp
Evaluating a
model of service integration for older people with complex health needs - Steve Bird,
William Kurowski and Gillian Dickman
Recreating experiences:
improving the validity of data - David Roberts
The use of photointerviewing: three
examples from health evaluation and research - Rosalind Hurworth, Eileen Clark,
Jenepher Martin and Steve Thomsen |
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Vol 3 No 2, December
2003 may be downloaded as a complete document (1.6 MB) here, or individual
articles may be downloaded from below. (Note: Right click on a link for options.) |
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Historical Perspectives on
Evaluation project – Colin A. Sharp
Development of
program evaluation in Australia and the Australasian Evaluation Society – the early
decades – Colin A. Sharp
Reflections on a decade in the
life of the Australasian Evaluation Society: 1990–1999 – Ian G. Trotman
Ethics and standards –
twelve years of mixed progress – Ian G. Trotman
Evaluation and the
policy context: the European experience – Nicoletta Stame
An indigenous perspective on
evaluations in the inter-cultural context: how far can one throw a Moree boomerang? – Russell Taylor
Evaluation standards and their
application to Indigenous programs in Victoria – Lynda Berends and Bridget
Roberts |
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Vol 3 No 1, August 2003 may be downloaded as a complete document (2.6 MB) from here, or individual articles may be
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‘Death by evaluation‘?
Reflections on monitoring and evaluation in Australia and New Zealand – Bill
Ryan
Social indicators – promises
and problems: a critical review – Anona Armstrong, Ronald Francis
The politics of program
logic – Brian English, Lisette Kaleveld
Evaluation culture: a definition
and analysis of its development within organisations – John M Owen
Corporate governance in the wake
of contemporary corporate collapses: some agenda items for evaluators – Rick
Sarre
Quantifying changing
understanding: Level 3 evaluation of leadership development interventions –
Eric Stevenson, James Warn |
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Vol 2 No 2, December 2002 may be downloaded as a complete document (2.15 MB) from here, 0rindividual articles may be downloaded from
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Competencies
for evaluation practitioners: Where to from here? – Brian English
The
object of one’s passion: engagement and community in democratic evaluation – Saville Kushner
Mixed-method evaluation: a way
of democratically engaging with difference – Jennifer C Greene
Reflections on learning about Australasian
evaluation theory and
practice - Patricia J Rogers
TRIAGE: a new group technique gaining recognition
in evaluation – Marie Gervais, Geneviève Pépin
Evaluating
the cultural appropriateness of service delivery in multi-ethnic communities –
David R Thomas
An
adapted version of a community of practice approach to evaluation owned by indigenous
stakeholders – Janet McIntyre
Insider
knowledge and outsider objectivity – the benefits and risks of combined evaluator
roles in a study of health care reform – Catherine Hurley, Helen van Eyk, Fran
Baum
Revealing the hidden costs:
research experiences from a case study evaluation project – Jo Burton, Rashmi
Rajan |
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Vol 2 No 1, August
2002 may be downloaded as a complete document (8.4 MB) from here, or individual
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Monitoring Without
Indicators – Peter Sigsgaard
Evaluating government-sponsored
science and technology projects in China – Yukun Bao, Jinlong Zhang, Xinnan
Li
Using stakeholder research in the
evaluation of organisational performance – Michael Brooks, Chris Milne, Klas
Johansson
Respite – the
preferred ambulance at the top of the cliff: a Christchurch, New Zealand study –
Elizabeth (Libby) Gawith, Diane Sargent and Carlton Kirk
The development and
application of a non-monetary evaluation methodology for ports – Felix A Schmidt
and Michael Smyth
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software review: handling missing values with multiple imputation methods – I
Gusti Ngurah Darmawan
International students in Victorian universities – Scott Bayley, Rob Fernside,
John Arnol, John Misiano, Rocco Rottura and Pam Williams |
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Vol 1 No 2, December 2001 may be downloaded as a complete document (3.7 MB) here, or individual articles may be
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Monitoring: The slow cousin of
evaluation, or an equal partner? - Marc de Boer
Building
a performance-based monitoring and evaluation system – Jody Zall Kusek and Ray C.
Rist
Evaluation research
in Australasia: Moving forward – Ralph G. Straton
An overview of
evaluation theories – Michael Scriven
Evaluation in the
‘new’ knowledge age – Michael Quinn Patton
Who benefits? Who loses?
Reflections of an EvalTalk Lurker – Bronwyn Stafford
The wheelbarrow,
the mosaic and the double helix: Challenges and strategies for successfully carrying out
mixed methods evaluation – Lois-ellin Datta
Making two plus two
equal five: Adding value through the use of internal data in evaluation research – Anne Sharp
Workshop on AES
Standards Development – Kerry Rose
Visualising program logic:
Two new graphic conventions – Doug Fraser
Individuals’ ability to predict their own personality test scores – Bruce
Kirkcaldy
Evaluation of
emergency treatment and follow-up for deliberate self-harming youth aged 15–24 – Scott Bayley and Sam Fazio |
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Earlier publications of the Australasian Evaluation Society are listed
below.
The Bulletin of the Australasian Evaluation Society (ISSN 1030-6463)
was published from November 1987 to May 1989), changing its name to Evaluation Journal
of Australasia (ISSN 1035-719X) in November/December 1989. The current format of
the EJA commenced in 2001.
Evaluation News and Comment (ISSN 1039-8473) was published betweeen
November 1992 and June 2000.
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Publications Committee
Dr Darren Harris, Chair email
Professor Rick Cummings
Dr Delwyn Goodrick Co-Editor, Evaluation Journal of Australasia
Associate Professor Rosalind Hurworth, Co-Editor, Evaluation Journal of Australasia
Bradley Shrimpton
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