On November 9th, Director Dr. Heath Prince facilitated a presentation by Associate Director Dr. Greg Cumpton on Propensity Score Matching (PSM) at the Texas Evaluation Network‘s second evaluation institute.  Held at the First Baptist Church of Austin from November 8-10, 2018, the Fall 2018 Evaluation Institute brought together people who are interested in learning more about evaluation, program staff who want to learn how to do evaluations in their organizations, evaluation professionals who want to improve their skills in evaluation, and anyone who wants to network with others who use evaluations to improve lives, communities, and organizations.  Dr. Cumpton’s presentation was part of a 3-hour long session providing attendees with the basics of PSM, equipping them with tools sufficient to begin using PSM at their home agencies and organizations.  You can view the presentation here.

 

RMC researchers Dr. Heath Prince and Ms. Ashweeta Patnaik attended the American Evaluation Association‘s annual conference in Cleveland, Ohio.  This year’s conference, Evaluation 2018: Speaking Truth to Power, was held at the Huntington Convention Center of Cleveland from October 29th through November 3rd and brought together evaluators, evaluation scholars, students, and evaluation users from around the world to assemble, share, and learn from the successes of the international discipline and practice of evaluation.  Dr. Prince and Ms. Patnaik participated in a panel on November 2nd on Assessing Exit: How to Gauge the Capacity of Local Community Development Efforts to be Self-Sustaining.  Dr. Prince chaired the panel while Ms. Patnaik presented and discussed RMC’s Review and Redesign of the Leadership Sustainability Index for Nuru International.