What Constitutes Credible Evidence in Evaluation and Applied Research?

Dear friends and colleagues,

If you were not able to come to the 2006 Claremont Symposium on "What Constitutes Credible Evidence in Evaluation and Applied Research?", you may have missed this year's hottest debate on issues in evaluation that affect social policy, organizational effectiveness, and fundamental questions about research methods.  In response to requests from those who could not make it, especially our friends and colleagues outside of the United States, we are thrilled to offer highlights from the day. Follow this link to a lively, 5-minute "highlights reel" from the day, and see faculty wrestling with the questions that affect us all day-to-day in our practice:

http://www.cgu.edu/pages/4085.asp

Full presentations of several talks and all of the panel discussions are also available on the site.

Speakers at this event included:
Michael Scriven (Western Michigan University)
Jennifer Greene (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)
Gary T. Henry (Georgia State University)
Melvin Mark (Pennsylvania State University)
Stewart I. Donaldson (Claremont Graduate University)
Leonard Bickman (Vanderbilt University)
Thomas Schwandt (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)
Sandra Mathison (University of British Columbia, Vancouver)
Sharon F. Rallis (University of Massachusetts Amherst)
Hallie Preskill (Claremont Graduate University)
Russell Gersten (University of Oregon)
Christina A. Christie (Claremont Graduate University)

Please send any comments, questions, and feedback about this event.  Many thanks to the presenters who made this possible, and gave their kind permission to make this discussion freely available to a larger public.

Paul Thomas
Institute of Organizational and Program Evaluation Research
Claremont Graduate University