TEI Deputy Director, Julie Morales, Ph.D. participated in a panel presentation
on evaluation capacity building at the American Evaluation Association Annual Conference in Washington, D.C. in November 2017.
Finally, the grant proposal explicitly involves continuing and expanding partnerships between TDOE and researchers at Brown, HGSE, and Vanderbilt, in part to build research and
evaluation capacity at the TDOE.
The authors analyze the complexities and challenges that arise in the face of joint evaluations and provide information on building
development evaluation capacity and conducting evaluations that focus on results.
She is a skilled facilitator and trainer with expertise in leading complex evaluations, building
staff evaluation capacity, developing M&E systems, fostering collaborative learning processes within dispersed and diverse teams, and developing knowledge sharing systems.
Dr. Morales provided an overview of TEI's approach to working with tribal grantees to build
evaluation capacity over 7 years.
Learn how the PICO approach has been applied in the Children's Bureau's Permanency Innovation Initiative: The PII Approach: Building Implementation and
Evaluation Capacity in Child Welfare --(PDF, 1.2 mb)
Tribal Home Visiting Program grantees and communities are building a
key evaluation capacity: performance measurement.
Over the past 15 years Kate has collaborated with states, tribes, and community - based organizations to
build evaluation capacity and conduct both federally sponsored and locally meaningful research and evaluation.
Even before settling on the small - schools strategy, Vander Ark had started developing
an evaluation capacity to track the effectiveness of the money he was spending.
Her focuses include logic model development and
evaluation capacity building.
Dr. Meisch is the Project Director of the Expanding the Evidence: Building
Evaluation Capacity project providing TA and evaluation capacity building to Annie E. Casey Foundation Race, Equity, and Inclusion grantees.
For the past 15 years Kate has collaborated with states, tribes, and community - based organizations to build
evaluation capacity and conduct locally meaningful evaluation.
7pm - 8 pm Ms Marlene Longbottom — PhD candidate, University of Wollongong Research with Indigneous communities, research and
evaluation capacity building with Aboriginal Community Controlled Organisations, violence and Aboriginal women.