Courses & Workshops

Below are graduate-level courses I teach and workshops, training, and presentations I offer by consultation.

 
 

Evaluation Practice & Methods

  • Introduces the process of conducting evaluations from beginning to end

  • Uses an interdisciplinary approach with a focus on social and ecological justice

  • Guides student teams through developing an evaluation plan for a real-world intervention

 

MESA 6466 | every fall

Evaluation Theory & Research

  • Explores key questions and debates in the evaluation field through different perspectives and possibilities 

  • Draws on evaluation scholarship, practice examples, guest speakers, and podcasts

  • Engages students, individually or in pairs, to develop a scholarly paper 

 

MESA 6467 | every spring

Mixed Methods

  • Covers the theory and practice mixing inquiry methodologies in research and evaluation across the social sciences

  • ‘Mix’ includes the integration of qualitative and quantitative approaches, methods, and data in a single study and combining multiple ways of knowing 

  • Guides students through developing an original proposal for a mixed methods study

 

MESA 9852 | every other fall

Theory of Change

  • Introduces the basics of developing, visualizing, and presenting a theory of change - a visual and narrative depiction of how, why, and for whom change happens

  • Discusses examples in the learning sciences and educational change contexts and other areas, including public health and international development

  • Develops a versatile skillset useful in organizational leadership, project design and management, and evaluation 

LREN 7401.01 | every spring

 

Workshops and Webinars

 
 

I lead workshops and presentations on evaluation, theory of change, systems approaches, and systemic change, among other topics. 

Participants include professionals working in the non-profit, government, philanthropic, and higher education sectors and at different stages of their careers.

 

Examples

 

  • Systems Evaluation: Exploring Purposes, Questions, and Methods, Virtual Webinar, U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, June 25, 2024

  • Critical Inquiry-based STEM Reform, American Association of Colleges & Universities, Grantwriting Exchange Institute, May 21-24, 2024

  • Systems- and Complexity-informed Evaluation, Speaker in Systems Thinking Master Class series by Global Early Childhood Development Initiative, April 23, 2024 (video link)

  • Five Ways for Evaluation to Develop Value Amidst Complexity, Keynote Speaker at the United Kingdom Evaluation Society, Oct. 2, 2023

  • Values in Evaluation, Evaluation Café Speaker at Western Michigan University, Nov. 15, 2023 (video link)

  • Helping to Create Value: New Roles for Evaluation and Evaluators: a panelist for the 2022 System Innovation Learning Festival based in Denmark, Dec. 1, 2022 (video link)

  • Redefining Evaluation in Support of System Change for the Centre for Evaluation of Complexity Across the Nexus at the University of Surrey, UK, Dec. 9, 2021 (video link)