TEI Faculty

2008 Faculty

Mr. James Bell is the President of James Bell Associates, Inc., a 35-person firm that has specialized in national health and human services program evaluation for 27 years. He has 32 years of evaluation management experience on more than 100 projects sponsored by federal, state, and local government agencies and non-profit foundations. His project management experience spans an array of evaluation designs and programmatic areas, including: exploratory case studies of innovations in rural health care finance and delivery; design of a random assignment evaluation of a promising foster care prevention intervention; and, a nationally representative survey on protections for human research subjects. Recently, he evaluated models of integrated care for persons living with HIV and co-morbid psychiatric and addiction disorders. He led a ground-breaking $40 million multi-site cooperative research program in this area that was jointly funded by the National Institutes of Health and two other federal agencies. From 1974 to 1979, he worked with Joseph Wholey and other members of the Urban Institute's Program Evaluation Studies Group to develop logic models, evaluability assessment and other approaches to planning useful program evaluations.

The management course he is currently teaching for TEI draws from Chapter 20, “Managing Evaluation Projects,” which he wrote for the Handbook of Practical Program Evaluation: Second Edition (Wholey, Hatry, Newcomer, Eds., Jossey-Bass, 2004) as well as earlier publications including Evaluation and the Federal Decision Maker (New Directions for Program Evaluation, Jossey-Bass, 1990).

Dr. John Bryson is Professor and Associate Dean for Research and Centers, Hubert H. Humphrey Institute of Public Affairs, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis. He works in the areas of leadership, strategic management, and the design of organizational and community change processes. He wrote the best-selling book and award-winning, Strategic Planning for Public and Nonprofit Organizations, and co-wrote the award-winning Leadership for the Common Good.

Dr. Bryson is a Fellow of the National Academy of Public Administration. He has received many awards for his work, including four best book awards, three best article awards, and the General Electric Award for Outstanding Research in Strategic Planning from the Academy of Management. He serves on the editorial boards of the Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory, Public Management Review, International Public Management Journal, American Review of Public Administration, and Journal of Public Affairs Education.

From 1998 to 2000 he was director of the Institute's Master of Public Affairs degree; from 1997 to 2000 he was collegiate program leader for the University of Minnesota Extension Service; from 1997 to 1999, he was director of the Institute's Reflective Leadership Center; and from 1983 to 1989, he was associate director of the University's Strategic Management Research Center. He has consulted with a wide variety of governing bodies, government agencies, nonprofit organizations, and for-profit corporations in North America and Europe. He holds a doctorate and master of science degree in urban and regional planning and a master of arts degree in public policy and administration, all from the University of Wisconsin.

.

Dr. Don A. Dillman is The Thomas S. Foley Distinguished Professor of Government and Public Policy in the Departments of Sociology, and Rural Sociology and Deputy Director for Research in the Social and Economic Sciences Research Center at Washington State University. From 1991-1995 he was the Senior Survey Methodologist at the U.S. Bureau of the Census, where he provided leadership for the development of the 2000 Decennial Census Form and implementation procedures. Since 1995 he has been a Senior Scientist for the Gallup Organization. His 1978 book, Mail and Telephone Surveys, was the first to provide step-by-step procedures for conducting such surveys. His current research emphasizes how the visual design and layout of questionnaires influences respondent answers, and the mixing of new survey technologies, such as the web and touch-tone data entry. Recent papers appear on his web page www.survey.sesrc.wsu.edu/dillman/

Dr. Ann Doucette is Senior Research Scientist, Center for Health Services Research and Policy, The George Washington University Medical Center, Washington, DC.  She has broad experience in the management, analysis, and evaluation of intervention programs, including the development of accountability and outcomes monitoring systems for programs that cut across individual and system levels; and in research methodology, data collection, psychometric and measurement techniques, evaluation research, and applied statistical analysis, including both quantitative and qualitative approaches.  

She has worked with foundations, public schools, mental health services, universities, and community groups; with young children and families; in social policy, juvenile justice, urban and minority education, morality and ethics, vocational education, conflict resolution, and more. She developed several assessment measures using Item Response Theory to generate more precision with briefer, less burdensome assessment instrumentation that lends itself to computer-adaptive applications and real-time data usage. Currently, she is collaborating on the development of a comprehensive, integrated measurement system that assesses both treatment process indicators as well as service intervention outcomes for children and adolescents. Among her other responsibilities, she is co-chair of the Outcomes Roundtable for Children (supported by the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration) and serves on the Executive Committee and Methods Workgroup of the Forum on Performance Measures for Behavioral Healthcare and Related Service Systems. She received her doctoral training at Columbia University.

Dr. Gary T. Henry is a professor in the Andrew Young School of Policy Studies at Georgia State University. He previously served as the Director of Evaluation and Learning Services for the David and Lucile Packard Foundation. Henry has evaluated a variety of policies and programs, including Georgia's Universal Pre-K, public information campaigns, and the HOPE Scholarship, as well as school reforms and accountability systems. He served as Director of the Applied Research Center at GSU from 1991 until 2001 and the Director of the Georgia Council for School Performance from 1993-2000. He is jointly appointed in the Department of Public Administration and Policy Studies and Department of Political Science at Georgia State University. He is author of Practical Sampling (Sage 1990), Graphing Data (Sage 1995) and co-author of Evaluation: An Integrated Framework for Understanding, Guiding, and Improving Policies and Programs (Jossey-Bass 2000); and has published extensively in the field of evaluation and policy analysis. In addition, he served as deputy secretary of education for the Commonwealth of Virginia and chief methodologist with the Joint Legislative Audit and Review Commission, Virginia General Assembly. He received the Evaluation of the Year Award from the American Evaluation Association in 1998 for his work with the Georgia's Council for School Performance and the Joseph S. Wholey Distinguished Scholarship Award in 2001 from the American Society for Public Administration and the Center for Accountability and Performance.

Professor James Edwin Kee is Professor in the Public Policy and Public Administration Department of the George Washington University, Washington, DC. Prior to joining GWU, he spent 17 years in state government in New York as legislative assistant and counsel to the State Assembly, and in Utah as State Budget Director and the first executive director of the Utah Department of Administrative Services. He served 4 years as managing editor of Public Budgeting & Finance and has published numerous articles on federal and state budget and fiscal policy, inter- governmental relations, and public management in such prestigious periodicals as the Harvard Law Review, the Public Administration Review, and Public Budgeting and Finance. His B.A. is from the University of Notre Dame and his M.P.A. and J.D. degrees from New York University where he was a Root-Tilden Scholar. He teaches public finance and courses in leadership and ethics at GWU and taught previously at New York University's Law School, the Lehman and Hunter Colleges of the City University of New York, and the University of Utah. His current research interests include the allocation of taxes among national and sub-national governments in Brazil and the People's Republic of China. He is currently lead investigator on a project for the Center for Innovation in the Public Sector on "Leadership in Change and Transformation."

Dr. Mark W. Lipsey is Director of the Center for Evaluation Research and Methodology at Vanderbilt University. His research and teaching interests are in the areas of public policy, program evaluation research, social intervention, field research methodology, and research synthesis, with particular emphasis on programs for children and youth. He published many books, articles, and technical reports (e.g., co-author of the 7th Edition of the Rossi et al. Evaluation: A Systematic Approach, Sage, 2003, a leading textbook in evaluation), and has consulted widely (e.g., in the U.S., Europe, India, Africa). He is a former Editor-in-Chief of AEA's New Directions for Program Evaluation and has served on the editorial boards of the American Journal of Evaluation, Evaluation Review, Evaluation Studies Review Annual, and Evaluation and Program Planning. He received AEA's Paul Lazarsfeld Award in 1996, and is a Fellow of the American Psychological Society. Dr. Lipsey has taught regularly in The Evaluators' Institute since its inception in 1996.

Dr. Arnold Love is an internationally-recognized independent consultant based in Toronto, Canada, with more than 25  years of experience in evaluation. He is author of a chapter on internal evaluation in Encyclopedia of Program Evaluation (Sage, 2004), Internal Evaluation: Building Organizations from Within (Sage, 1991), and a chapter on implementation analysis for the new edition of The Handbook of Practical Program Evaluation (Jossey-Bass, 2004).  Dr. Love  is editor of the Canadian Evaluation Society's Evaluation Methods Sourcebook Series and of special issues of New Directions for Program Evaluation and the Canadian Journal of Program Evaluation. He received his PhD from University of Waterloo; has taught program evaluation at the National Centre for Nonprofit Management at York University and at the Centre for Innovative Management at Athabasca University. He served a 2-year term as President of the Canadian Evaluation Society. In 1996,  he recieved the CES National Award for Distinguished Contribution to Evaluation in Canada and in 2005, he was made a Fellow of the CES. The American Evaluation Association recognized  Dr. Love in 1998 for his contributions to building a worldwide evaluation community and in 2005 for his service to AEA . He is a member of the Performance Measurement, Evaluation and Audit Committee of the Canadian Institutes of Health Research.

Dr. Melvin M. Mark is Professor of Psychology and Senior Scientist at the Institute for Policy Research and Evaluation at the Pennsylvania State University and is President-Elect of AEA and Past Editor of the American Journal of Evaluation. He has conducted federally funded evaluations in the areas of prevention programs for at-risk youth, federal personnel policies, and industrial modernization, and has been involved in evaluations of state and local programs. An award-winning teacher, he has published numerous papers and chapters on the theory and design of evaluations. He is co-editor of Social Science and Social Policy; Multiple Methods in Program Evaluation; Realist Evaluation: An Emerging Theory in Support of Practice and a forthcoming Handbook of Evaluation (with Ian Shaw and Jennifer Greene). He is co-author (with Gary Henry and George Julnes) of Evaluation: An Integrated Framework for Understanding, Guiding, and Improving Policies and Programs (Jossey-Bass 2000).

Dr. Michael Morris is Professor of Psychology at the University of New Haven, where he serves as Director of the Master's Program in Community Psychology, and where, in 1985, he received the University's Award for Distinguished Teaching. His 1993 study, "Program Evaluators and Ethical Challenges" (published in Evaluation Review) was the first national survey examining the ethical conflicts faced by evaluators. A former chair of AEA's Ethics Committee, he co-edited an issue of New Directions for Evaluation devoted to "Current and Emerging Ethical Challenges in Evaluation." His work has appeared in many journals, including the American Journal of Evaluation, Evaluation and Program Planning, Social Policy, American Journal of Community Psychology, Sociology and Social Research, and The American Sociologist. He is co-author of Poverty and Public Policy (Greenwood Press, 1986) and co-editor of Myths about the Powerless (Temple University Press, 1996) and has authored several invited book chapters, including one on ethics in The International Handbook on Educational Evaluation (2003). He was editor of AJE's Ethical Challenges column from 1998-2004. For the past two decades he has worked as an organizational consultant for a variety of human-services and public-sector agencies, and currently serves as an evaluator for the Commission on Institutions of Higher Education of the New England Association of Schools and Colleges. He is now writing a book on ethical issues in evaluation that will be published in 2007 by Guilford Publications.

Dr. Kathryn Newcomer, Director, School of Public Policy and Public Administration, The George Washington University, Washington, DC. She has also held teaching positions at University of Nebraska at Lincoln, University of Denver, Grinnell College, University of Iowa, and the National Chengchi University, Taiwan. Teaching/Research interests: public program evaluation and performance measurement, research design and applied statistics, public policy analysis. Among her books is Handbook of Practical Program Evaluation, Co-Editor (Jossey-Bass, 2nd Ed. 2004) She is published in many journals, e.g., American Journal of Evaluation, American Review of Public Administration, Policy Studies Journal, Evaluation & Program Planning, Law and Policy Quarterly, Urban Affairs Quarterly, Policy Studies Review, Public Administration Review; has conducted research for many organizations including U.S. Departments of State, Health and Human Services, Transportation, and General Services Administration; and American Speech-Hearing-Language Association, National Association of Schools of Public Affairs and Administration; delivered papers at many professional association meetings including: AEA, NASPAA, ASPA, NAPA. Selected professional committee assignments: Washington Evaluators, President; NAPA, Cmte on Government Performance; NASPAA Diversity Committee. and Standards Committee; Midwest Pol Sci Assoc Committee on Status of Women; Women's Caucus for Political Science, Treasurer. Consulted with international organizations, e.g., in Egypt, Brazil, England, Italy, Taiwan. Developed training programs for U.S. Departments of State, Agriculture, Interior, Health & Human Services, General Accounting Office, Federal Bureau of Investigation, Environmental Protection Agency, Office of Personnel Management, Federal Emergency Management Administration, Naval Audit Service. Honors include Fullbright Fellowship, Fullbright Award for Bilateral Curriculum Development, Peter Vaill Award for Excellence in Education; Distinguished Public Service Award from the American Society for Public Administration; Elected Fellow of the National Academy of Public Administration.

Dr. Michael Quinn Pattondirects an organizational development and evaluation consulting business, "Utilization-Focused Evaluation." He has been an evaluation consultant for 30 years and has worked at local, state, national, and international levels. He has evaluated a wide variety of programs in areas as diverse as health, human services, education, cooperative extension, environment, agriculture, employment, training, leadership development, literacy, early childhood and parent education, poverty alleviation, economic development, and advocacy. He has consulted with non-profit, philanthropic, private sector, and international organizations. His consulting practice has included program evaluation, strategic planning, conflict resolution, board facilitation, staff development, futuring, and a variety of organizational development approaches.

He is author of five books on program evaluation including Utilization-Focused Evaluation: The New Century Text (Sage, 1997) and Qualitative Evaluation and Research Methods (3rd edition, Sage, 2002). He is a former President of the American Evaluation Association (AEA); received the Alva and Gunner Myrdal Award from the Evaluation Research Society for "outstanding contributions to evaluation use and practice" and the Paul Lazarsfeld Award for lifetime contributions to evaluation theory from AEA. He has held many positions including Director of the University of Minnesota's Center for Social Research and received that University's Morse-Amoco Award for outstanding teaching. His latest book, with two Canadian colleagues, is Getting to Maybe: How the World Is Changed (Random House Canada, 2006).

Dr. Theodore H. Poister is Professor of Public Administration in the Andrew Young School of Policy Studies at Georgia State University where he specializes in public management and applied research methods. He has previously served on the faculties of Southern University and Penn State University and for a year was a visiting professor at George Washington University. He has a long-standing interest in the use of applied research methods and statistics to evaluate the performance of public programs, and he teaches a highly regarded two course sequence in this area at Georgia State in which he strives to make applied statistics understandable and useable for masters students in public administration.

Poister is the author of early books in the field including Public Program Analysis: Applied Research Methods (University Park Press, 1978), Applied Program Evaluation in Local Government (Lexington Books, 1979), and Performance Monitoring (Lexington Books, 1983), and his new volume on Performance Measurement for Public and Nonprofit Organizations will be published in the summer of 2003 by Jossey-Bass. Much of his research is concerned with results oriented management strategies in the public sector and the use of such tools as strategic planning and management, performance management, program evaluation, performance measurement, and quality improvement methods in government. He has published widely in these areas in such journals as Public Administration Review, Public Productivity & Management Review, Public Administration Quarterly, Evaluation Review, American Review of Public Administration, The Journal of Urban Affairs, and Public Works Management & Policy Review.

Dr. Poister has a substantive interest in transportation policy and management, but he has also worked in a variety of other program areas including housing, criminal justice, mental disabilities, child support enforcement, and public and community health. Beyond classroom teaching and academic research, he enjoys working in the field with practicing public and nonprofit managers, and over the years has conducted applied research projects, program evaluations, statistical analyses, strategic planning efforts, and performance measurement system development projects - as well as professional training and development programs - for a wide variety of state, federal, local, and nonprofit agencies. Organizations he has worked with in the past few years include the Georgia Department of Administrative Services, the Georgia Office of Child Support Enforcement, the Georgia Department of Community Health, the North Dakota State Auditor's Office, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Office of Inspector General, as well as the Pennsylvania Department of Transportation, the Williamsport Bureau of Transportation, the Transportation Research Board, and the U.S. Maritime Administration.

Dr. Hallie Preskill is Professor in the School of Behavioral and Organizational Sciences at Claremont Graduate University. In 2005, she was elected to be incoming president of AEA, for the year 2007. She is co-author of Reframing evaluation through appreciative practices (with Catsambas, in press); and: Building Evaluation Capacity: 72 Activities for Teaching and Training (with Russ-Eft, 2004); Evaluation in Organizations: A Systematic Approach to Enhancing Learning, Performance & Change (with Russ-Eft, 2001); Evaluative Inquiry for Learning in Organizations (with Torres, 1999); Evaluation Strategies for Communication and Reporting (with Torres, & Piontek, 2nd ed., 2004); co-editor of Using Appreciative Inquiry in Evaluation (with Coghlan, 2003); and Human Resource Development Review (with Russ-Eft & Sleezer, 1997). She has served on the Board of Directors of the American Evaluation Association (AEA) and the Academy of Human Resource Development, and is the section editor of the Teaching Evaluation column in the American Journal of Evaluation. She received AEA's Alva and Gunnar Myrdal Award for Outstanding Professional Practice in 2002, and the University of Illinois Distinguished Alumni Award in 2004. For over 20 years, she has provided consulting services in the areas of program evaluation, training, and organization development. She has also written numerous articles and book chapters on evaluation methods and processes, and has conducted program evaluations in schools, healthcare, non-profit, human service, and corporate organizations.

Dr. Debra J. Rog directs the Washington office of the Vanderbilt University Center for Mental Health Policy, Institute for Public Policy Studies. She has 20+ years of experience in program evaluation/applied research and has directed numerous multi-site evaluations and research projects, most for vulnerable populations. Current projects include multi-site/multi-component studies of supported housing for persons with serious mental illnesses, mental health and substance abuse interventions for homeless families, housing services for persons with HIV/AIDS, and community partnerships and collaborations focused on violence preventions. She has numerous publications on evaluation methodology, housing, homelessness, poverty, mental health, and program and policy development, and is co-editor of the Applied Social Research Methods Series and the recently published Handbook of Applied Social Research Methods (1997, Sage). She has a recent article on the methodological lessons learned from cross-site collaboration in the multi-site evaluation of supported housing and has another multi-site effort in press, "Sustaining Collaboratives: A Cross-Site Analysis of the National Funding Collaborative on Violence Prevention." She served on AEA's Board of Directors; and the Advisory Committee of Women's Services for the U.S. Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration.

Dr. Patricia Rogers is Professor in Public Sector Evaluation and leader of the research program in Evidence-Based Policy and Practice in the Sustainable Health and Well-Being Research Institute at RMIT University (Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology), Australia . Dr. Rogers has undertaken evaluation and monitoring since the mid 1980s in government (federal, state, and local) and non-government organizations for a range of programs, including community capacity building, family support, criminal offenders, policing, chemical handling regulation, labour market legislation, maternal and child health, agricultural research and extension, Indigenous housing, early childhood services, physical infrastructure, education, welfare and social change philanthropy. She is co-editor of a text on the challenges and opportunities in using program theory in evaluation in New Directions in Evaluation (Jossey-Bass, 1999). She has written on diverse topics including building evaluation capacity, using evaluation for improvement and organizational learning, accountability, project sustainability, appreciative inquiry, and cost-benefit analysis. Her most recent writing on program theory explores how it can be used effectively for evaluation and performance monitoring of complicated and complex interventions.

She has presented keynote addresses at conferences of the Australasian, Aotearoa/New Zealand, European, United Kingdom , South African and Swedish evaluation societies and associations and delivered evaluation workshops in the USA , the UK , Australia , New Zealand , South Africa , Japan , Singapore and Malaysia . Her work has been recognized by the American Evaluation Association's Myrdal Award for Evaluation Practice, presented to an evaluation practitioner who has made a substantial and cumulative contribution to the professional practice of evaluation, and whose work brings to life the AEA's Guiding Principles for Evaluation, the Australasian Evaluation Society's Evaluation Training and Services Award for outstanding contributions to the profession of evaluation, the AES' Caulley-Tulloch Prize for Pioneering Literature in Evaluation, and the AES Best Evaluation Study Award.

Dr. David Wilson is an Associate Professor in the Administration of Justice Program in the Department of Public and International Affairs at George Mason University. He received his Ph.D. in applied social psychology from Claremont Graduate University. His research interests include program evaluation research methodology, meta-analysis, and the effectiveness of interventions for the rehabilitation of offenders and the prevention of crime and problem behavior. Recent work has focused on correctional boot camps, domestic violence interventions, incarceration-based drug treatment, and school-based prevention programs. He was the 1999 recipient of the Marcia Guttentag award for Early Promise as an Evaluator from the American Evaluation Association.