AGENDA
Friday, May 8, 1998
(Levis Center)
 
8a.m.- 9.a.m. Registration and Coffee
9a.m.-10.a.m. Music Room Chairs: Oli Proppe (Iceland Institute of Education) & Penha Tres(University of California, Irvine)
 
From responsive to collaborative evaluation. 
Rita O'Sullivan (UNC, Greensboro) 
Balancing philosophy and practicality in qualitative evaluation. Jennifer Greene (Cornell University) 
 
10a.m.-11.a.m. Music Room Chairs: David Hamilton (University of Umea) & Henriette Heimgartner(Van Leer Foundation)
 
Naturalistic generalizations: We are what we think. 
Deborah Trumbull (Cornell University)  
Naturalistic generalizations as the source of investigative insight. Nick Smith (Syracuse University) 
 
11a.m.-12.p.m. Music Room Chairs: Lawrence Ingvarson (Monash University) & David Pearson (Michigan State University)
 
Give me an insight: Reporting and training in case study evaluation. 
Helen Simons (University of Southampton)  
What cognitive and social psychology imply about setting performance standards. Dick Jaeger (UNC, Greensboro) 

12-1 p.m. LUNCH (not arranged) 
1-2p.m. Room 401 Chairs: Claryce Evans (Harvard University) & David Jenness (Valley Research, Santa Fe)
 
Case study: The importance of multiple takes. 
Jacquetta Hill (University of Illinois)  
Case study approach in the negotiating evaluation model. Maria Sáez (University of Valladolid) 
 
Room 405/406 Chairs: Jeri Nowakowski (NCREL) & Bill Foster (National Center on Substance Abuse and Addiction at Columbia University)
 
Creating evaluating organizations. 
Jim Sanders (Western Michigan University)   
The legacy of centers. Tom Fox (National-Louis University) 
 
Music Room Chairs: Pat Templin(Right Associates, Cupertino) &   Kathryn Sloane (University of Illinois)
 
Love and Death and Responsive evaluation. 
Saville Kushner (University of East Anglia)    
Responsive evaluation as a tool for continuous quality improvement in the public sector . Jim Pearsol (Ohio State University)
 
2-3p.m. Room 401 Chairs: Nick Smith (Syracuse University) & Jennifer Greene (Cornell University)
 
Insight: How to achieve it, especially in case study and collaborative evaluation. 
Discussion initiated by Helen Simons (University of Southampton)
 
Room 405/406 Chairs: Nigel Norris (University of East Anglia) & Norm Stenzel (University of Illinois)
 
Early literacy assessment. 
Sue Hill (University of South Australia) 
Cultivating evaluative intelligence. Lou Rubin (University of Illinois) 
 
Music Room Chairs: Larry Braskamp(University of Illinois at Chicago) & Kristin Powell (Chicago Teachers Academy)
 
Effects of a museum-school collaborative on seventh grade students of an urban public elementary school. Mary Ann Ludwig (Chicago Public Schools)    
Two faces of urban high school students: Characteristics of drop outs and persisters. Lois Gueno (Chicago Public Schools)    
An empowered school: An investigation of the development and the effect of a teacher empowerment process. Carmen Palmer (Chicago Public Schools) 
 
3-4 p.m. Room 401 Chairs: Renee Clift (University of Illinois) &John McLure (University of Iowa)
 
Evaluating year round education programs. 
Del Harnisch, Philip Zodhiates & Naj Shaik (University of Illinois) Evaluating school performance: Accountability and school improvement . Philip Holmes Smith (Victoria Dept. of Education) 
 
Room 405/406 Chairs: Ulf Lundgren (Skolvorket, Stockholm) & Barry MacDonald (University of East Anglia)
 
Evaluation and Social Work in Sweden. Haluk Soydan (Swedish Board of Health and Welfare)     
A Brazilian's Stakian journey. Iduina Chaves (Fluminense Federal University)
 
Music Room  Chairs: Ken Komoski (EPIE) &Dennis Gooler (NCREL)
 
Evaluating information technologies. 
Chip Bruce (University of Illinois) 
Bob Stake meets Mister Rogers. David Balk (Oklahoma State University)
 
4-5 p.m. Room 401 Chairs: Liora Bresler (University of Illinois) & Gary Joselyn (University of Minnesota)
 
Robert Stake and the business of evaluation. Kathryn Ryan & John Ory (University of Illinois)  
Responsive evaluation Amistad style: Perspectives of one African-American evaluator .  Stafford Hood (Arizona State University) 
 
5-7p.m. Reception  (Krannert Center for Performing Arts) 
 
Master of Ceremonies: Mike Atkin; 
High Expectations 
Carmilva Flores, Chris Migotsky, Theresa Souchet, Rita Davis, Marya Burke, Edith Cisneros-Cohernour, Mindy Basi 
And other words from Mildred Griggs, Jeff Stake, Dan Alpert, Barry MacDonald, Madeleine Grumet, Terry Denny. 
Music:Tim Green and Gary Cziko (University of Illinois), Clem Adelman (Trondheim University).
 
7:30 p.m.  The party moves to the Shurts House Inn on South Neil for wine and a no-host dinner. Please make reservations with Lizanne DeStefano (destefan@uiuc.edu) and get transportation needs and last minute reservations to Elizabeth Easley by 1p.m. on 8th May.
Saturday, May 9, 1998
(Levis Center, All sessions in Room 407)
 
8a.m.- 9.a.m. Registration and Coffee
9-10:15a.m. Opening Session 
Values. Ernest House (University of Colorado, Boulder)  
Bias. Michael Scriven (Claremont University) 
Introduction and commentary: Lee Cronbach (Stanford University)
 
10:15-10:30a.m. Break
 
10:30a.m.-12:00 p.m. Panel: Assessing, Evaluating, Knowing  
Moderator: Linda Mabry (Indiana University) Eva Baker (UCLA), 
Gene Glass (Arizona State University) 
David Hamilton (University of Umea) 
Sue Noffke (University of Illinois)
 
12:00-1:00p.m. LUNCH (Levis, Second Floor)
 
1:00-2:30p.m. PresentationsIntroduction: Lizanne DeStefano (University of Illinois) 
Thoughts of Tom. Tom Maguire (University of Alberta) 
Two measurement guys gone wrong; or fumbling and stumbling toward a paradigm. Lou Smith (Washington University of St. Louis) 
35 years goes fast when you're having fun. Les McLean (University of Toronto) 
What is really at Stake? Ulf Lundgren (Skolworket) 
 
2:30-2:45 p.m. Break 
 
2:45-3:30 p.m. Closing Session
Introduction: Elliot Eisner (Stanford University) 
Hoax? Bob Stake 
 
3:30 p.m. Reception (Levis Faculty Center)