Please click the titles and find presentations and/or papers!

EDUCATION

With Fiscal Pressures, Can Educational Leadership Programs Achieve Quality?  (paper)

by Mark Fenster, Valdosta State University.  Email: fenster_21stcentury@hotmail.com

Parent Involvement in Charter Schools and Traditional Public Schools

by Zorka Karanxha, Barry University at Orlando.  Email: zkaranxha@mail.barry.edu

Who Benefits from After School Tutoring with Supplemental Education Services (SES) Funding:  A Two-Year Study of SES in Georgia

by Dottie Harnish and Catherine Sielke, University of Georgia; Joy Johnson, Georgia Department of Education.  Email: harnish@uga.edu

Making Adequate Yearly Progress for No Child Left Behind:  The Influence of Students’ Perception of School Safety

by Paul Rendulic, Barry University.  Email: rendulic@earthlink.net

Evaluation Proposal:  An Intensive English Reading Program

by Justin Jernigan, Florida State University.  Email: jej03@fsu.edu 

Evaluation Design Considerations When Using Qualitative Data Analysis Software

by Dan Kaczynski, University of West Florida.  Email: dkaczyns@uwf.edu 

Evaluation of the Effectiveness of North Carolina School Counselors – Those Using the ASCA Model Compared with Others

by Bernice Campbell, EDSTAR, Inc.   Email: bernice@edstar.org

Relating Teacher Candidate Performance to Their Students’ Academic Achievement (paper)

by Mark J. Fenster, Diane Judd, and Carolyn Cox, Valdosta State University.   Email: fenster_21stcentury@hotmail.com  

HEALTH

Evaluating the Effectiveness of a Smoking Cessation Media Campaign in Florida

by Christopher Sullivan, Image Research.  Email: christopher@imageresearch.com

The Cross-Site Program Assessment Survey:  A Tool Designed to Identify and Respond to the Evaluation Needs of HIV/AIDS Prevention Community-Based Organizations  (proposal)

by Tabia Henry Akintobi, Jamillah Berry, Pamela Daniels, Elleen Yancey, and Robert Mayberry, Morehouse School of Medicine Prevention Research Center.  Email: takintobi@msm.edu

Measuring Cost and Performance of Tuberculosis Programs in Florida

by Betial Teweldemedhin, ALAF; Sevim Ahmedov and James Cobb, Florida Department of Health; Scott McNabb, DTBE, CDC; Halsey Rhodes, Kenya Roberts, Florida Department of Health; Denise Dodge and Richard Doggett, Duval CHD; Johnnie Lloyd, Alachua CHD.  Email: Betial_Teweldemedhin@doh.state.fl.us

CONTRACTING & PRIVATIZATION

Developing A Business Case for Privatization (Workshop)

by Walter Sachs, Florida Department of Children and Families.  Email: walter.sachs@dcf.state.fl.us 

Performance Contracting (Workshop)

by Walter Sachs, Florida Department of Children and Families.   Email: walter.sachs@dcf.state.fl.us 

Review of FDCF’s Oversight of Lead Agencies Providing Community-Based Care

by LeNée Carroll, OPPAGA.  Email: carroll.Lenee@oppaga.fl.gov 

 EVALUATION MODELS

Teaching Logic Models:  Helping Clients Face, Manage, and Love Evaluation (or paper) (Workshop)

by Carol Ripley-Moffitt and Molly Aldridge, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.   Email: carol_ripley-moffitt@med.unc.edu 

Challenges in the Design and Presentation of Large-Scale, Multi-Site Education Program Evaluation Results:  Reading First in Georgia

by Dottie Harnish, University of Georgia.  Email: harnish@uga.edu

Multi-Site Evaluations:  Methodological Challenges and Opportunities

by Margarida Southard, Linda Dean, Gary Liebert, and Dogan Tozoglu, Leon County Schools.  Email: deanl@mail.leon.k12.fl.us

Community-Based Participatory Research:  Helping Partners Derive Meaning from the Data

by Elizabeth Serow, Florida Department of Health.  Email: betty_serow@doh.state.fl.us  

OTHER TOPICS

Maintaining Quality Despite Organizational Change

by Joan Vermillion, Family Services of Metro Orlando.  Email: drjoanv@aol.com  

Monitoring Human Trafficking in the U.S. and the Federal Response

by Steve Lize, Ph.D., OPPAGA.  Email: lize.steve@oppaga.fl.gov