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aes18 International Evaluation Conference

Welcome cocktail reception, Tuesday 18 September 6:00–8:00pm, open to all delegates! Venue: Penny Royal

Richard Ciesniewski

Department of Education and Training
Assistant Director
Canberra

Evaluation, child care, soccer, meditation (not necessarily in that order).

9:00am AEST

Opening plenary: Welcome to Country; Michael Quinn Patton "Getting Real about Transformational Change: The Blue Marble Evaluation Perspective" Conference centreDuncan Rintoul • Lyn Alderman • Aunty Nola Hooper • Kate McKegg • Michael Quinn Patton

11:00am AEST

Big data, big possibilities, big challenges: Lessons from using experimental designs in evaluation of system-level educational reforms Chancellor 5Keryn Hassall • Ben Barnes • Duncan Rintoul • Ian Watkins

11:30am AEST

Beyond 'reach': Rethinking the evaluation of digital government Chancellor 3Anne Markiewicz • Tanja Porter

12:00pm AEST

Size Matters: Quantifying the Size of the Challenge Through Big Data, Analytics and Evaluative Thinking Chancellor 5Keryn Hassall • Rico Namay

1:30pm AEST

Theories on and of: A systematic analysis of evaluation's domains of knowledge Chancellor 4Noore Alam • Ghislain Arbour

2:00pm AEST

Whose outcome is it anyway? Using matrices to serve many masters. Chancellor 6Stefan Kmit • Nolan Stephenson

2:30pm AEST

Leveraging publicly available longitudinal and transactional data sources to create comparison groups in quasi-experimental and natural experimental evaluation scenarios. Chancellor 5Eleanor Williams • Gerard Atkinson

2:40pm AEST

Strengthening program impact on systems and building evaluation into systems Chancellor 3Delyth Lloyd • Jade Maloney • Katherine Rich

2:45pm AEST

Evaluating influence Chancellor 3Delyth Lloyd • Joanna Farmer

3:30pm AEST

Integrating evaluation and design roles: Innovations in recent NGO projects Chancellor 3Ian Patrick • Robert Drake • Vanessa Hood

4:00pm AEST

Lessons on designing, monitoring, evaluating and reporting for policy influence programs Chancellor 5Helen McMahon • Rini Mowson • Byron Pakula

4:30pm AEST

The potential for system level change: Addressing political and funding level factors to facilitate health promotion and disease prevention evaluation Chancellor 5Helen McMahon • Joanna Schwarzman

8:00am AEST

Plenary two: Penny Hagen "Scaling up, out and deep: What we are learning about social innovation for transformation" Conference centreDuncan Rintoul • Penny Hagen

9:30am AEST

Transforming evaluation culture and systems within the Australian aid program: Embracing the power of evaluation to promote learning, transparency, and accountability. Chancellor 5Michael Shapland • Tracey McMartin

10:00am AEST

How algorithms shape our lives: evaluating the unseen Chancellor 6Clara Walker • Kristy Hornby

11:00am AEST

The Enhanced Commonwealth Performance Framework - the opportunity for the Australian evaluation community Chancellor 5John Stoney • Lyn Alderman • Brad Cook • David Morton • David Roberts • David Turvey

12:00pm AEST

Evaluation capability building: Transforming evaluation culture or spinning wheels? Chancellor 4Claire Grealy • Martin Hall • Vanessa Hood • Megan Kerr • Delyth Lloyd • Kate Nichols • Amanda Reeves • Roberta Thorburn • Eleanor Williams

2:00pm AEST

Evaluative Rubrics: A tool for making explicit evaluative judgements Chancellor 4Evylyn Brophy • Kate McKegg • Nan Wehipeihana

3:00pm AEST

From outputs to outcomes: A system transformation approach for the Victorian child and family service sector Chancellor 5Rhianon Vichta • Emily Mellon

3:10pm AEST

Evaluation and Transformation: It's the Politics Stupid Chancellor 3Christina Thornley • Chris Roche

4:00pm AEST

Plenary three: Karol Olejniczak "Transforming evaluation practice with serious games" Conference centreDuncan Rintoul • Karol Olejniczak

8:00am AEST

Plenary four: Sharon Gollan & Kathleen Stacey "Cultural accountability in evaluating Aboriginal initiatives and programs" Conference centreDuncan Rintoul • Sharon Gollan • Kathleen Stacey

9:00am AEST

Evolving the evaluation deliverable Conference centreMatt Healey • Gerard Atkinson

10:00am AEST

Transforming evaluation to better address complexity Conference centreMatt Healey • Julie Elliott

10:20am AEST

TLDR (too long, didn't read): Let's knife evaluation reports Chancellor 3Charlie Tulloch • Liz Smith

11:00am AEST

Evaluation Ready: Transforming government processes and ensuring evaluability Chancellor 5Keren Winterford • Lyn Alderman • Ruth Pitt • David Turvey

1:30pm AEST

'Drive out fear': creating space for evaluative thinking and speculation for practitioners and organisations Chancellor 4Marion Norton • Susan Garner • Carolyn Page Designing better surveys: from zero to hero Chancellor 6Tracey McMartin • Dan Borg

2:30pm AEST

Closing plenary: It’s the AES18 Great Debate and it’s going to be huge! Conference centreDuncan Rintoul • Lyn Alderman • Penny Hagen • Kate McKegg • Karol Olejniczak • Gill Westhorp