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Dr. Chris L. S. Coryn
August 11-15, 2008
Workshop on Quasi-Experimental Design and AnalysisDr. Coryn was invited to attend a workshop given by Tom Cook and Will Shadish at Northwestern University. The workshop is designed to complement the current interest in randomized experiments by seeking to improve the quality of the quasi-experiments that are needed when random assignment is not feasible or breaks down...
July 1, 2008
New Directions for EvaluationNew Directions for Evaluation, Vol. 118, titled "Reforming the Evaluation of Research," co-edited by Drs. Chris Coryn and Michael Scriven is now available...
June 1, 2008
Models for Evaluating Scientific ResearchDue to its very nature, the evaluation of research permeates nearly every aspect of the work of researchers. They evaluate the work of others or have their own work evaluated. They evaluate hypotheses that come to mind, the previous literature, the quality of data, the explanatory power of theories, or the design of experiments or instruments. However, deciding when someone is or has become a first-rate or world-class researcher is an evaluation at a somewhat different level. It is a complex synthesis of judgments about how well the researcher does each of the constitutive types of evaluation, usually as evidenced in the work they are producing. In the last few decades the evaluation of research has become a high-stakes enterprise. With increasing political governance and federal budgets often in the billions, the livelihood of individual researchers, research groups, departments, programs, and entire institutions often swing in the balance. In this book, Dr. Coryn systematically analyzes and compares the quality of the models used to fund and evaluate scientific research in sixteen countries...
December 1, 2007
Models and Mechanisms for Evaluating Government-Funded ResearchRead the article in the American Journal of Evaluation...
Models for Evaluating Scietific Research
This book aims to raise the debates about the fundamentals of these systems. It demonstrates the variability in the models across many countries and suggests evaluative criteria to adjudge the various models. It uses the most recent thinking in evaluation theory, and Dr. Coryn is well placed at one of the preeminent institutions in developing theories and models of evaluation. I have come to know Dr. Coryn over the years he has written this book, and see that he has left few stones unturned in seeking evidence about these research models. He has boldly recommended a series of evaluation principles and questions to be asked of the many models. While he has provided one set of answers and recommendations, this book will assist others to see the diversity of approaches, the implications of the models, and the excitement of evaluation applied to an important and exciting set of questions.
Dr. John A. Hattie, Auckland, New Zealand, March 2008