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
email

Vol 10 No 2 may be downloaded as a complete document (1.76 MB) from here, or individual articles may be downloaded below. (Note: Right click on a link for options.)

 

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

 

 

 

 

Vol 10 No 1 may be downloaded as a complete document (2.2 MB) from here, or individual articles may be downloaded below. (Note: Right click on a link for options.)

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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

 

 

 

Vol 9 No 2 may be downloaded as a complete document (2.3 MB) from here, or individual articles may be downloaded below. (Note: Right click on a link for options.)

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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 9 No 1 may be downloaded as a complete document (2.3 MB) from here, or individual articles may be downloaded below. (Note: Right click on a link for options.)
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Evaluation: a booming business but is it adding value? - Frans L Leeuw

Evaluating contracted domestic violence programs Standardisation and organisational culture - Ed Carson, Donna Chung and Andrew Day

Evaluation of a special education professional development program Part 2: Success Case studies - Eileen Piggot-Irvine

A critique of using the Delphi technique for assessing evaluation capability-building needs - Julie McGeary

Adding value through community participation: evaluating capacity in
community health committees
- Phil Entwistle

Assessment, evaluation and improvement of university council performance - Anona Armstrong and Zita Unger

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Vol 8 No 2 may be downloaded as a complete document (1.4 MB) from here, or individual articles may be downloaded below. (Note: Right click on a link for options.)

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Invisible mechanisms - Ray Pawson

Improving project, program and policy performance in developing countries through managing for development results - R Keith Leonard and Scott Bayley

Participatory research in challenging circumstances: Lessons with a rural Aboriginal program - Catherine Spooner, Saul Flaxman and Colleen Murray

The political context of evaluation: what does this mean for independence and objectivity? - Anne Markiewicz

Program clarification: an overview and resources for evaluability assessment, program theory and program logic - Rosalind Hurworth

 

Vol 8 No 1 may be downloaded as a complete document (2.3 MB) from here, or individual articles may be downloaded below. (Note: Right click on a link for options.)

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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

Vol 7 No 2 may be downloaded as a complete document (1.9 MB) from here, or individual articles may be downloaded below. (Note: Right click on a link for options.)

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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

Vol 7 No 1 may be downloaded as a complete document (1.9 MB) from here, or individual articles may be downloaded below. (Note: Right click on a link for options.)

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

 

Vol 6 No 2 may be downloaded as a complete document (5.1 MB) from here, or individual articles may be downloaded below. (Note: Right click on a link for options.)

‘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

Vol 6 No 1 may be downloaded as a complete document (4.8 MB) from here, or individual articles may be downloaded below. (Note: Right click on a link for options.)

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

Vol 5 No 2 may be downloaded as a complete document (3.4 MB) from here, or individual articles may be downloaded below. (Note: Right click on a link for options.)

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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, or individual articles may be downloaded below. (Note: Right click on a link for options.)

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

Vol 4 Nos 1 & 2, March/April 2005 may be downloaded as a complete document (2.9 MB) here, or individual articles may be downloaded below. (Note: Right click on a link for options.)

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

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.)

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

Vol 3 No 1, August 2003 may be downloaded as a complete document (2.6 MB) from here, or individual articles may be downloaded from below. (Note: Right click on a link for options.)

‘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

Vol 2 No 2, December 2002 may be downloaded as a complete document (2.15 MB) from here, 0rindividual articles may be downloaded from below. (Note: Right click on a link for options.)

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

Vol 2 No 1, August 2002 may be downloaded as a complete document (8.4 MB) from here, or individual articles may be downloaded from below. (Note: Right click on a link for options.)

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

NORM 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

Vol 1 No 2, December 2001 may be downloaded as a complete document (3.7 MB) here, or individual articles may be downloaded from below. (Note: Right click on a link for options.)

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

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.

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