Professional Development Workshops are hands-on, interactive sessions that provide an opportunity to learn new skills or hone existing ones at Evaluation 2007.
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John McLaughlin has been part of the evaluation community for over 30 years working in the public, private, and non-profit sectors. He has presented this workshop in multiple venues and will tailor this two-day format for Evaluation 2007.
First, we will recapture the utility of program logic modeling as a simple discipline, using cases in public health and human services to explore the steps for constructing, refining and validating models. Then, we'll examine how to improve logic models using some fundamental principles of "program theory", and, finally, demonstrate how to use logic models effectively to help frame questions in evaluation, performance measurement, and strategic planning. Both days use modules with presentations, small group case studies, and debriefs to reinforce group work.
"Collaboration" is a ubiquitous, yet misunderstood, under-empiricized and un-operationalized construct. Program and organizational stakeholders looking to do and be collaborative struggle to identify, practice and evaluate it with efficacy.
This workshop aims to increase participants' capacity to quantitatively and qualitatively examine the development of inter- and intra-organizational partnerships. Assessment strategies and specific tools for data collection, analysis and reporting will be presented. You will practice using assessment techniques that are currently being employed in the evaluation of PreK-16 educational reform initiatives and other grant-sponsored endeavors including the Safe School/Healthy Student initiative. The processes and tools are applicable across all areas of practice from health and human services to business to governmental networks and agencies.
Rebecca Gajda has facilitated workshops and courses for adult learners for more than 10 years and is the Director of Educational of Research and Evaluation for a large-scale school improvement initiative. Her most recent publication on the topic of organizational collaboration can be found in the March 2007 issue of AJE.
Prerequisites: Basic understanding of organizational change theory/systems theory and familiarity with mixed methodological designs.
A standout from the 2006 and program, this workshop has been updated and expanded to a two-day offering for 2007. Designed for beginners with little or no background in survey development, you will be introduced to the fundamentals of survey design and administration, and leave with tools for developing and improving your own surveys as part of your evaluation practice.
Many evaluation studies make use of longitudinal data. However, while much can be learned from repeated measures, the analysis of change is also associated with a number of special problems, e.g. the unreliability of change scores. This workshop reviews how traditional methods in the analysis of change, such as the paired t-test, and repeated measures ANOVA or MANOVA, address these problem. From there, we will move to the core of the workshop, an introduction to latent growth curve modeling (LGM) and how to specify, estimate, and interpret growth curve models.
The workshop will be delivered as a mixture of PowerPoint presentation, group discussion, and exercises with a special focus on model specification. Processes for setting up and estimating models will be demonstrated using different software packages, and a number of practical examples will help to illustrate the material. You will receive all slides as handouts as well as a recommendations for further reading and study.
Manuel C Voelkle is a research associate at the University of Mannheim where he teaches courses on multivariate data analysis and research design and methods. Werner W. Wittmann is professor of psychology at the University of Mannheim, where he heads a research and teaching unit specializing in research methods, assessment and evaluation research.
Prerequisites: Basic understanding of structural equation models and regression analytic techniques. Experience with analyzing longitudinal data is of advantage but not necessary.
What do you do when asked to perform an evaluation on a program that is well underway? When time and resources are few, yet expectations high? When questions about baseline data and control groups are met with blank stares? When time and resources are few, yet clients expect "rigorous impact evaluation"? When there are political pressures to address?
The RealWorld Evaluation approach will be introduced and its practical utility assessed through presentations and discussion, and through examples drawn from the experiences of presenters and participants. This well-developed seven-step approach seeks to ensure the best quality evaluation under real-life constraints.
Jim Rugh and Michael Bamberger recently co-authored, with Linda Mabry, the book Real World Evaluation, Working Under Time, Data and Political Constraints (SAGE 2006). The two presenters bring over eighty years of professional evaluation experience, mostly in developing countries around the world.
Prerequisites: Academic or practical knowledge of the basics of evaluation.
Increasingly, individuals and organizations are being asked to collect, manage, and use information for decision-making, particularly to improve the quality of services and products. Rather than basing decisions on hunches and intuition, decision-making is viewed as being a "data-driven" process, one which is systematic and produces trustworthy information.
Employing lecture, hands on exercises, and discussion, this workshop will focus on developing reliable and valid questionnaires. A variety of both supply and selection item formats will be presented, including short answer, fill in the blank, paired comparison ranking, rating scales, checklists, etc. Types of reliability to be discussed include measures of stability over time and instrument consistency. Validity discussion will focus on face, content, criterion related, and construct validity. Overall, we will emphasize the practical "how to" aspects of developing good questionnaires and observational instruments.
Ways to demonstrate the validity and reliability of the results produced by an instrument.
David Colton and Robert W. Covert teach instrument construction at the Curry School of Education, University of Virginia. The presenters are coauthors of the text Designing and Constructing Instruments for Social Research and Evaluation to be published this summer by Jossey-Bass.
Interested in growing your evaluation business? This workshop brings together business, service, and marketing concepts from recent publications such as Jim Collin's Good to Great, Robert Schwartz and John Mayne's Quality Matters, and the recent New Directions for Evaluation issue on Independent Evaluation Consulting, and applies them to small evaluation consulting firms.
The workshop begins with a self-assessment where attendees rate their evaluation businesses in terms of being a sustainable asset. You will then look into the future and dream about what you would like your business to become in terms of sales, profitability and sustainability. The remainder of the workshop focuses on ways to get from where the business is today to where you would like your business to be in the future. The workshop will be highly interactive and use numerous real-life situations for analysis and recommendations for ways to proactively and deliberately grow.
Ways to structure your company and services so that your business becomes a saleable asset.
Melanie Hwalek is the founder and owner of SPEC Associates, a program evaluation and research company that has thrived over the past 27 years. She is co-author of the 2006 New Directions for Evaluation article "Building Your Evaluation Business into a Valuable Asset." Victoria Essenmacher is a partner and business manager of SPEC Associates and has provided extensive consulting to non-profit organizations on issues of high-quality performance measurement systems.
Prerequisites: Experience conducting evaluations as a small business owner or self-employed contractor.
Learn the latest advances in data management, statistical testing, and outcome measurement! Best practices are common in every field. Program evaluators and, in particular, quantitatively-oriented evaluators, ought to have the same benefit of keeping abreast of these "best" practices as their professional counterparts in other fields.
Through short lectures, didactic inquiry, and demonstrations, the session will explore data-handling including coding and transforming variables and computing new variables, working with missing data, statistical testing including statistical power and effect size estimation, and quantitatively capturing outcomes in program and policy implementation.
Best practices for capturing outcomes including designing useful measures for relevant outcomes.
Patrick McKnight is a professor of psychology at George Mason University where he teaches statistics and methods courses, and is the co-chair of AEA's Quantitative Methods Topical Interest Group (TIG). An experienced facilitator, his engaging style renders the complex accessible and well worth the time and investment.
Prerequisites: Working knowledge of a statistical package and a sound understanding of univariate, bivariate (correlations and t-tests), and multivariate (GLM, ANOVA, multiple regression) statistical procedures.
The field of systems inquiry is as diverse and complicated as the field of evaluation. When the two are placed side-by-side, the complexities seem to multiply. The purpose of this session is to bring the use of systems concepts down to earth for real-world evaluation scholars and practitioners.
Over the course of the day, we will address a variety of difficult questions: When and why should an evaluator think about systemic aspects of a situation? What does it mean to treat a situation in a systemic way? How can I take the step from thinking about situations systemically and to evaluating them systemically? In short lecturettes, reflection, experience, and group discussion, you will explore these questions and come to a personal realization about what a systems-approach would mean to your own evaluation practice.
Three useful evaluation tools from three distinct systems traditions.
Bob Williams is an independent consultant who has been at the forefront of incorporating systems based ideas into evaluation practice. His own experience of using systems theory in practice dates back over 30 years. Glenda Eoyang is founding Executive Director of the Human Systems Dynamics Institute. Among other publications, she is the author or co-author of Coping with Chaos: Seven Simple Tools, and Facilitating Organization Change: Lessons from Complexity Science.
Evaluative judgments are inextricably bound up with culture and context and call for diversity-grounded, multilateral self-awareness. Excellence and ethical practice in evaluation are intertwined with orientations toward, responsiveness to, and capacities for engaging diversity. Breathing life into this expectation calls for critical ongoing personal homework for evaluators regarding their lenses, filters and frames vis-a-vis judgment-making.
Together, we will cultivate a deliberative forum for exploring these issues using micro-level assessment processes that will help attendees to explore mindfully the uses of self as knower, inquirer and engager of others within as well as across salient diversity divides. We often look but still do not see, listen but do not hear, touch but do not feel. Evaluators have a professional and ethical responsibility to address the ways our lenses, filters and frames may obscure or distort more than they illuminate.
Communicating evaluation processes and results is one of the most critical aspects of evaluation practice. Yet, evaluators continually experience frustration with hours spent on writing reports that are seldom read or shared. While final reports will continue to be an expectation of many evaluation contracts, there are other ways in which evaluators can communicate and report on the progress and findings from an evaluation.
Using hands-on demonstrations and real-world examples, we will explore how a variety of strategies for communicating and reporting can increase learning from the evaluation's findings, stakeholders' understanding of evaluation processes, the evaluation's credibility, and action on the evaluation's recommendations.
More than 15 strategies for communicating and reporting evaluation processes and findings.
Rosalie T Torres is president of Torres Consulting Group, a research, evaluation and management consulting firm specializing in the feedback-based development of programs and organizations since 1992. She has authored/co-authored numerous books and articles including, Evaluation Strategies for Communicating and Reporting (Torres, Preskill, & Piontek, 2005), and Evaluative Inquiry for Learning in Organizations (Preskill & Torres, 1999).
Assessing needs is a task often assigned to evaluators with the assumption that they have been trained in or have experience with the activity. However, surveys of evaluation training indicated that only one formal course on the topic was being taught in university based evaluation programs.
This workshop uses multiple hands-on activities interspersed with mini-presentations and discussions to provide an overview of needs assessment and a strong emphasis on designing needs assessment surveys. The focus will be on basic terms and concepts, models of needs assessment, steps necessary to conduct a needs assessment, and an overview of methods with particular focus on the design and nature of needs assessment surveys.
Qualitative techniques to improve needs assessment.
James Altschuld is a well known author and trainer in the area of needs assessment and was a pioneer in offering academic training in needs assessment to evaluators. His recent publications include co-authorship of the text From Needs Assessment to Action: Transforming Needs in Solution Strategies (SAGE 2000).
This workshop is based on the premise that the use of qualitative software does not threaten the methodological integrity of qualitative researchers' work, but rather such software serves as a tool to encourage researchers to maintain their role as primary agents of their analysis. Coding and qualitative software are presented as heuristic devices that assist the search for meaning in qualitative data.
The agenda is designed to use practical experience with real data to direct conversation around important principles that shape qualitative analysis. "Context" is explored from several angles as a way to emphasize the importance of movement from the particular to the holistic. Pre-code work can outline the context of data collection episodes. Code evolution should occur with conscious attention to the context of an entire research project. Memo writing is presented as a resource for considering context of real-life meaning to what we see in data.
Strategies for moving through coding to latter phases of ascertaining meaning from qualitative data.
Ray Maietta is President and founder of ResearchTalk Inc, a qualitative inquiry consulting firm. He is an active qualitative researcher, research consultant, and teacher of qualitative analysis. Over 10 years of consultation with qualitative researchers provide the backdrop of this workshop, which uses materials from a manuscript in preparation by the facilitator, Sort and Sift, Think and Shift, to be completed in 2008.
Prerequisites: Basic understanding of qualitative data analysis.
Evaluations of advocacy, community organizing, and other policy change efforts present unique challenges for evaluators, particularly those looking to use evaluation for ongoing learning. On the ground, change can take years to happen, and when it does, it may occur in fits and starts. Outside forces can affect efforts in unforeseen ways, causing advocates' strategies to shift, goals to be abandoned, and new goals to be taken up. And current policy losses can belie gains that spell future success. Evaluators need strategies for addressing these challenges in evaluation design and implementation.
Through lecture, discussion, demonstration, and hands-on activities, this workshop will walk participants through a variety of strategies for evaluating advocacy and policy change efforts. We will draw from specific case studies that address real-world challenges and discuss ways to overcome them.
Techniques to identify outcomes that can be used as milestones for success.
Justin Louie, a consultant with Blueprint Research & Design, Inc., works with nonprofits and foundations to help them evaluate their advocacy efforts, and has conducted leading research on this topic for The California Endowment. Ehren Reed, a Senior Associate with Innovation Network, Inc., leads a number of evaluations of policy change initiatives and conducts field-building research for national foundations.
Evaluations should be useful, practical, accurate and ethical. Utilization-focused Evaluation is a process that meets these expectations and promotes use of evaluation from beginning to end. With a focus on carefully targeting and implementing evaluations for increased utility, this approach encourages situational responsiveness, adaptability and creativity.
Monitoring the manner and degree to which a program, service, or treatment is implemented is key to valid process and outcome evaluation. Yet, while many program stakeholders and evaluators have a general awareness of the diagnostic value associated with measuring and documenting the delivery and receipt of a planned intervention, the collection and examination of implementation data is often an overlooked or contentious aspect of the evaluation process.
Through lecture, discussion, demonstration, and hands-on activities, this workshop will explore the benefits offered and the challenges posed by the collection and usage of implementation data. Qualitative and quantitative measurement and analytic strategies will be presented, and the merits of strict adherence to and strategic adaptation of program protocol will be considered.
Keith Zvoch is an assistant professor at the University of Oregon with over ten years experience designing and conducting evaluations of educational and social service interventions. Lawrence Letourneau is a federal programs administrator at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas (UNLV) involved in all aspects of service delivery, management, and evaluation of UNLV's suite of 16 college access programs.
Prerequisites: A basic understanding of research design and statistics.
This workshop provides a practical framework for developing logic models that has been used throughout the United States, Canada, and Africa. You will practice the skills necessary to develop a logic map for a problem of interest, prioritize the underlying conditions appearing in the logic map for strategy development, and identify potential measures to assess the underlying conditions. Overall, use of the logic modeling process will help to ensure programs have the best chance of producing intended outcomes.
Through mini-lectures, discussion, and small group exercises, we will explore the logic modeling process including how to avoid activity traps, identify antecedent conditions, and setting up a program for success.
Ways to ensure a program has the best chance of producing its intended effect.
Ralph Renger will lead a team of experienced facilitators who have offered training in logic modeling to learners at all levels. The facilitation team developed the three step approach to logic models and have worked with local, state, national, and international agencies to develop new programs and restructure existing programs using the three step logic modeling process.
Prerequisites: Basic understanding of logic models and familiarity with completing logic models for projects.
'Concept mapping" is a tool for assisting and enhancing many types of thinking. By using this methodology, it can help a group describe and organize its assessment on a topic. Ideas are represented visually in a series of easy-to-read graphics that capture specific ideas generated by a group; relationships between ideas; how ideas cluster together; and how those ideas are valued.
This workshop explore this methodology using lecture, group discussion and project examples. There will be a particular focus on the planning stages of a project, as the decisions at this stage are applicable to any participatory project. A secondary focus will be on the unique analyses that create a shared conceptual framework for complex, systems-based issues and represent that in easy-to-read visuals.
to apply the methodology to their own projects.
Mary Kane and Kathleen Quinlan are, respectively, President and Senior Consultant at Concept Systems, Inc, a consulting company that uses the concept mapping methodology as a primary tool in its planning and evaluation consulting projects. William Trochim is a Professor and Director of Evaluation for Extension and Outreach at Cornell University and the author of many peer reviewed publications on the methodology and countless conference presentations.
Managing for Results! Performance-Based Budgeting! Balanced Score Cards! Dash Boards! Program managers and executives in the public and non profit sectors are being pushed to embrace these approaches to assessing how well their programs and agencies are doing. The unifying thread linking all of these efforts is performance measurement. So what is needed to measure performance in an effective and useful manner?
This workshop will provide you with instruction, materials and exercises to increase your understanding of what constitutes performance measurement and how to measure program performance in the public and nonprofit sectors.
Approaches to getting performance measures used.
Kathryn Newcomer is the Director of the Phd in Public Policy and Administration program at the George Washington University where she teaches public and nonprofit program evaluation, research design, and applied statistics. She conducts research and training for federal and local government agencies on performance measurement and program evaluation, and has published five books and numerous articles about performance measurement in the government and nonprofit sectors.
How to provide the assurances necessary to guarantee approval of the proposal.
Through an extensive presentation, followed by discussion and hands-on work with data sets and computer-generated output, this workshop will explore Rasch Measurement as a means to effectively measure program services. It provides an overview of "modern" measurement as practiced using item response theory with a focus on Rasch measurement. Rasch analysis provides the social sciences with the kind of measurement that characterizes measurement in the natural sciences.
Kendon Conrad and Barth Riley are from the University of Illinois at Chicago. They bring extensive experience in both teaching about, and applying, Rasch measurement to evaluation. Their workshops have won high praise from participants for their down-to-earth, clear, applied presentation with discussion.
How to present findings in useful ways.
In 1999, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention published the Evaluation Framework to provide public health professionals with a common evaluation frame of reference. Public health practitioners have successfully used the framework in a variety of settings and contexts. Beyond the framework, however, there are nuances and complexities to planning and implementing evaluations in public health settings.
Employing discussions, real examples, and activities, this workshop will focus on topics for evaluators to consider and strategies for approaching public health evaluations to get to the right questions to be addressed in a variety of evaluation contexts. This session will go beyond the CDC Evaluation Framework to examine confounders and complexities of public health evaluation.
Strategies to develop indicators for chosen evaluation questions.
Mary V Davis is Director of Evaluation Services at the North Carolina Institute for Public Health and Adjunct Faculty in the University of North Carolina School of Public Health where she teaches several advanced evaluation courses. Diane Dunet is a Senior Program Evaluator in the Division of Nutrition and Physical Activity where she conducts and supervises public health evaluations.
Evaluators and administrators are increasingly expected to conduct studies using what are called scientifically-based methods. This workshop will provide you with the knowledge and ability to design and implement both random assignment experiments and alternative rigorous designs that can satisfy demands for scientifically-based methods.
George Julnes, Associate Professor of Psychology at Utah State University, has been contributing to evaluation theory for over 15 years and has been working with federal agencies, including the Social Security Administration, on the design and implementation of randomized field trials. Fred Newman is a Professor at Florida International University with over thirty years of experience in performing front line program evaluation studies.
Prerequisites: Understanding of threats to validity and the research designs used to minimize them, practical experience with eval helpful.
This workshop will enable participants to capitalize on the benefits of visual representation by providing them with tools for displaying data graphically for presentations, evaluation reports, publications and continued dialogue with program funders, personnel and recipients. This workshop will teach you about cognitive processing and heighten your awareness of the common errors made when visually displaying multivariate relationships, making you a more critical consumer of quantitative information.
Ways to decide if quantitative information should be presented graphically/visually versus in words/text.
Stephanie Reich is an assistant professor in the department of education at the University of California, Irvine where her research focuses on cognitive development and how people process information. David Streiner is a Professor of Psychiatry at the University of Toronto and has authored four widely used books in statistics, epidemiology and scale development.
Together we will explore four 'hot topics' in the field today: (1) The Geography of the Discipline -- What are its components, what differentiates it from other disciplines, from a collection of bits and pieces, leaving 'the brand,' etc.; (2) Current Models and Theories -- their variety, strengths and weaknesses, best uses, possible future directions, etc.; (3) Methodologies and Uses -- what have we borrowed and extended or improved, which if any are new and distinctive of evaluation, what is still needed; and (4) The Rest of the Story -- the political, psychological, economic, educational dimensions, and what else; and, finally, what should we treat as the priorities for future development?
This will be a participatory workshop aimed at developing everyone's individual perspective on the present situation in the discipline of evaluation. The facilitator will 'open the bidding' on each topic with a summary and then chair a discussion including all, to take the topic further. We'll engage in discussion about the current state of the art in evaluation, the directions the discipline is taking, and what we can do to set and realize priorities for future development.
Where is the discipline headed and how might we contribute to a valued and valuable future for evaluation.
Michael Scriven is among the most well-known professionals in the field today with 25 years of work on the philosophy of science. He has over 90 publications in the field of evaluation. Michael is excited to offer this brand new workshop at Evaluation 2007.
Through lectures supplemented with practical examples and discussion of crucial concepts, the workshop will address four key questions: When are multilevel models necessary? How can they be implemented using standard software? How does one interpret multilevel results? What are recent developments in this arena?
Sanjeev Sridharan is head of evaluation programs and a senior research fellow at the University of Edinburgh as well as a trainer for SPSS and an Associate Editor for the American Journal of Evaluation. He has taught and presented on statistical topics to a wide variety of audiences including university students, program practitioners, policy makers, and faculty.
Employing discussion, hands-on activities, and role-playing, this workshop focuses on these strategies and techniques for conducting successful collaborative evaluations, including ways to avoid common collaborative evaluation pitfalls.
The uses for surveys in evaluation are endless, and online surveys are a relatively new way to conduct survey research. Online surveys provide promising opportunities for addressing many of the prohibitive issues of conducting paper surveys or phone surveys, including reaching target audiences within resource constraints, yet they are not without their limitations and challenges. This presentation will better equip evaluators to create design, and distribute effective online surveys.
Through mini-lectures, discussion, and demonstration, we will explore how to select an appropriate online survey host, format survey questions for online administration, create an online survey, and download data for analysis and reporting. Please note that this short course focuses on providing examples and an overview rather than teaching how to use a specific application. As such, there is no computer use by individual participants.
Options and advantages of commercial software program and web-based survey hosts.
Lois Ritter and Valerie Sue are faculty members at California State University and co-authors of Conducting Online Surveys (SAGE, 2007), a comprehensive guide to the creation, implementation, and analysis of email and web-based surveys. They are developing a New Directions for Evaluation volume focusing on online surveys due out this fall.
Performance measurement has been a popular analytic and management tool for the past several years. As a result, many evaluators have considerable experience in this technique, and they recognize both the enormous potential and the many challenges involved. This advanced workshop is for experienced practitioners who want to wrestle with those difficult issues and develop options for tackling each one.
In order to respect and utilize the rich experience of the participants, the workshop will operate more as a seminar than a training session. In advance of the workshop, you will be asked to email the facilitator 3-4 difficult issues you wish to have addressed, and these issues will collectively generate the agenda. The facilitator will certainly lead the seminar and contribute suggestions from his experience, but participants are also expected to share their own ideas and expertise.
A range of content generated from our collaboratively-developed agenda.
Michael (Mike) Hendricks has helped a variety of public and non-profit organizations design and implement performance measurement systems in his 23 years as a consultant. He has written articles on performance measurement, co-authored a manual on analyzing outcome data, and is an experienced trainer and facilitator.
Prerequisites: Solid understanding of the principles and procedures of performance measurement, several years of real-world experience implementing a performance measurement system.
Historically, racism has been a contributing factor to the racial disparities that persist across contemporary society. This workshop will help you to identify, frame, and measure racism's presence. The workshop includes strategies for removing racism from various evaluation processes, as well as ways for identifying types of racism that may be influencing the contexts in which racial disparities- and other societal programs operate.
Through mini-lectures, discussion, small group exercises, and handouts, learners will practice at identifying racial biases that may be embedded in certain research literature, influence of racism in the contexts of racial disparities programs and eliminating inadvertent racism that may become embedded in cross-cultural research.
Prerequisites: Previous thinking, work, or study in the area of discrimination's influence on programs and processes and an openness to further dialogue and exploration of racism.
Are you lost in the systems jargon, multiple systems concepts, and their application to evaluation situations? Are you uncertain how to evaluate large scale initiatives? Join us to explore ways to select and apply evaluation methods based on the dynamics of the complex systems intertwined within large scale initiatives. Learn to apply system dynamics modeling and tools related to complex adaptive systems concepts.
Through lecture, small group exercises involving case studies, and a Q& A session, this workshop will provide a framework for understanding the nature of the systems involved in large scale multi-site/multi-project initiatives and the kinds of evaluative questions that arise out of an understanding of system dynamics.
How this systems orientation relates to commonly used evaluation methods (e.g., outcomes, process, participatory, and empowerment evaluation methods).
Beverly Parsons is the executive director of InSites in Colorado and has over 20 years experience in evaluating education and social service initiatives. She focuses on the evaluation and planning of systemic change. Teresa Behrens is the director of evaluation at the WK Kellogg Foundation. She recently co-edited a special issue of the American Journal of Community Psychology on systems change.
Prerequisites: Knowledge of or experience in conducting or planning cluster and/or multi-site evaluations.
Richard Krueger is a senior fellow at the University of Minnesota and has been actively listening for evaluation stories for over a decade. He has offered well-received professional development workshops at AEA and for non-profit and government audiences for over 15 years. Richard is a past president of AEA.
Small and grassroots organizations usually have much different needs and funding sources than larger organizations. This workshop is based on the presenters' new book, Level Best: How Small and Grassroots Organizations Can Tackle Evaluation and Talk Results. This workshop introduces the concept of "rolling evaluation," and emphasizes that evaluation at its best is about learning rather than judging, about improving rather than proving, and that overall, evaluation does not need to be costly, overwrought or burdensome.
Through lecture, discussion and handouts, we will address the myths and misperceptions surrounding evaluation of nonprofit programs, and through the sharing of specific tools and strategies, will teach you how to support nonprofits in their evaluation efforts.
How to integrate evaluation into the ongoing work of even the smallest agency.
Marianne Philbin is a consultant with extensive experience working with foundations and nonprofit organizations on issues related to evaluation and planning, capacity building and organizational development. Marcia Festen is the Executive Director of ArtsWork Fund and co-author with Ms. Philbin of Level Best: How Grassroots Organizations Can Tackle Evaluation and Talk Results (Wiley , October 2006).
Employing lecture, activities, demonstration and case examples ranging from townships in South Africa to a $15 million Hewlett-Packard Digital Village project, the workshop will introduce you to the steps of empowerment evaluation and tools to facilitate the approach.
Focus groups don't always work as expected. Find out what leading focus group practitioners say are their top 10 problems, challenges and headaches AND how they solve those concerns. Also, find out the concerns among AEA members. AEA workshop participants will be invited to submit their top concerns as well. So, make your list, attend the workshop and discover helpful solution strategies.
Through presentations, question-and-answer, and exploration of responses to attendee challenges, this workshop will help you move your focus group facilitation skills to the next level.
Solution strategies to the top 10 problems, challenges, and headaches.
Richard Krueger is a senior fellow at the University of Minnesota. In 30+ years of practice he has conducted thousands of focus group interviews and he still gets excited about listening to people. He is the author of 6 books on focus group interviewing and is a past president of AEA.
Collect, analyze and present data from complex evaluation studies in ways that are feasible for the evaluator and meaningful to the client. Explore lessons learned through over twenty years in evaluation consulting to ask the right questions, collect the right data and analyze and present findings in simple yet comprehensive ways.
Actual data samples will be presented along with examples of analysis techniques. You will have an opportunity to work in small groups with sample data and will explore various analysis techniques. Throughout the workshop, the presenter will respond to individual questions and facilitate group discussion on data handling topics. At the end of the workshop, you will take away fresh ideas to tackle you data handling challenges.
To extract and map themes, prepare an evidence table, and report findings in a comprehensive but user-friendly way.
Gail Barrington started Barrington Research Group more than 20 years ago and has been conducting complex evaluations ever since. A top rated facilitator, she has taught workshops throughout the US and Canada for many years.
Quasi-experiments are excellent alternatives to true experiments when random assignment is not feasible. Unfortunately, causal conclusions cannot easily be made from results that are potentially biased. Some advances in statistics that attempt to reduce selection bias in quasi-experiments use propensity scores, the predicted probability that units will be in a particular treatment group.
Using real data sets as examples, demonstrations of computation of propensity scores in SAS and SPSS, and hands-on analysis of output, you will become adept at when and how to use propensity scores to adjust for selection bias.
How to improve propensity score computations.
M H Clark received her PhD in Experimental Psychology from the University of Memphis with a specialization in research design and statistics. She currently is an assistant professor at Southern Illinois University where she teachers courses focusing on advanced research methodology, statistics, and program evaluation.
Getting To Outcomes: Methods and Tools for Planning, Evaluation, and Accountability (GTO) was developed as an approach to help practitioners plan, implement, and evaluate their programs to achieve results. GTO is based on answering 10 accountability questions. By answering the questions well, program developers increase their probability of achieving outcomes and demonstrate their accountability to stakeholders.
Addressing the 10 questions involves a comprehensive approach to results-based accountability that includes evaluation and much more.
Through lecture, demonstration, and hands-on activities, this workshop will explore the basics of the GTO approach and provide resources for further investigation and action. Research funded by a grant from CDC has shown that use of the GTO model can improve individual capacity and program performance to facilitate the planning, implementation, and evaluation of prevention programs. GTO has been customized for several areas of public health including: substance abuse prevention, underage drinking prevention, positive youth development, teen pregnancy prevention, and emergency preparedness.
Abraham Wandersman is a Professor of Psychology at the University of South Carolina-Columbia. He is a co-author of Prevention Plus III and a co-editor of Empowerment Evaluation: Principles in Practice. Catherine Lesesne is a Behavioral Scientist in the Division of Reproductive Health at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. She is the lead author of the newly developed GTO manual, Promoting Science-based Approaches to Teen Pregnancy Prevention Using Getting to Outcomes.
Through a hands-on, experiential approach using real-life examples from program evaluation, you will become skilled at the practical applications of conflict resolution theory as they apply to conflict situations in program evaluation.
In this experiential learning environment, you will find out how to maximize time, build rapport, create energy and apply communication tools in a focus group to maintain the flow of discussion among the participants and elicit more than one-person answers. Using practical exercises and examples, including role play and constructive peer-critique as a focus group leader or respondent, you will explore effective focus group moderation including ways to increase and limit responses among individuals and the group as a whole.
Join us in this highly interactive workshop were you will practice and reflect on a variety of activities and adult learning techniques associated with three components of evaluation planning: focus, data collection, and communicating. Try these activities out, assess their appropriateness for your own situation, and expand your toolbox. We will draw from a compendium of practical tools and strategies that we have developed over the past years and have found useful in our own work. We encourage you to bring your own 'best practices' to share as we work towards building the evaluation capacity of communities.
Ellen Taylor-Powell is widely recognized for her work in evaluation capacity building. Her nearly 20 years in Extension have continuously focused on evaluation training and capacity building with focus on individual, team, organizational learning. She will lead a team of four facilitators with extensive experience both in teaching adults and in working with community groups and agencies.


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WAGNER PREVIEWS SHEFF WED (H)
Head Coach looks to another Yorkshire derby
- David Wagner previews Sheffield Wednesday game
- Head Coach looks forward to test against the Owls
- Wagner gives an update on injuries
David Wagner's Huddersfield Town returns to action on Saturday with a Sky Bet Championship Yorkshire derby at home to Sheffield Wednesday; 3pm kick-off at the John Smith's Stadium.
The game is a second in succession against a local rival, following on from the 4-1 win at Leeds United a fortnight ago.
"It was nice to be able to enjoy the derby win, but in my opinion we have played better games than against Leeds. I know this result in the derby away was important for our supporters, but we have played better," David told htafc.com.
"From the moment we met up again it was in the past. Nothing in football is more unimportant and uninteresting as the past.
"The only important thing in football is the present and for us that is the Sheffield Wednesday game. We are totally focused."
Wagner did look back and clarify one detail following the match at Elland Road; the identity of Town's next penalty taker.
"If we get a penalty on Saturday and Nahki is on the pitch, he will take the ball for sure.
"I was very happy with his reaction after he missed the penalty at Leeds. A few weeks ago we spoke about his body language after he missed some chances and he showed how strong he was at Elland Road, getting a great assist and scoring."
On the Owls, who will arrive in West Yorkshire in the final Play-Off position, Wagner commented:
"On Saturday – and probably the two games after – we play against a really strong opponent. That gives us opportunities to show ourselves if we are able to make the next step, which is to get some points against the top six of the league. This is very exciting and important for me.
"In my opinion, the top six sides in the table right now are the best teams in the league.
"Sheffield Wednesday has several options. The team can play with (Atdhe) Nuhiu, a tall striker, and play more with long balls, like they did against us away. They can also play with speed with Forestieri and Joao. We have to be prepared for those two different ways, but we will find our plan against them.
"Everybody knows Sheffield Wednesday is a very strong side - but they are not unbeatable! We have to bring our best game in all the different areas to be able to beat them, but we will trust in ourselves and try our best.
"If we are able to give our highest performance and do the easy things right, I think it is uncomfortable against us. Like always, we have to focus on ourselves. We want to give them problems so they have to try and find solutions."
Ahead of the game, the Head Coach gave an update on the availability of his players for selection:
"Emyr Huws was on the road with the Welsh team, but he is back with us without any issues. He will be available for Saturday.
"Both Kyle Dempsey and Jonathan Hogg are not available for Saturday – and I don't expect either to be available for the next three games. 'Hoggy' is maybe a bit further along than Kyle, but we'll know more in the next week."
Wagner believes his charges will have benefited from the mix of rest and work they've had over the international break in fixtures.
"Everybody else is healthy and fit after this international break. I think we did it well, as we gave the boys a few days off and then came back with double sessions on Saturday, Sunday and Tuesday before a normal schedule this week.
"Everybody was able to recharge their batteries, particularly in their minds, plus I know we have not lost any of the fitness level."
One man in particular who will have benefited from more time on the PPG Canalside pitches is latest recruit Rajiv van La Parra – but David explained he still has some way to go to fully understand his brand of 'full throttle' football.
"Rajiv develops and understands our idea more day by day, but you feel it is not natural for him yet.
"We've worked together with the other players for five months and they do a lot of things naturally now. When the ball is in one position, they know where they should be. Rajiv sometimes has to think what he has to do and it takes one or two seconds. This is totally normal.
"We're using the next weeks so that he isn't a new player when we start pre-season."
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Pope Francis equates violence against women to profaning God
Jan. 1, 2020 at 2:29 am Updated Jan. 1, 2020 at 4:13 am
VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Francis is pinning much of his hopes for a more peaceful world in the new year on women, saying violence against them is akin to profaning God and calling for them to be increasingly involved in making major decisions.
In his homily Wednesday in St. Peter's Basilica, Francis decried the "many times women's bodies are sacrificed on the profane altar of advertisements, of profit, of pornography." He also lamented that women are "continually offended, beaten, raped, forced into prostitution" or forced to have abortions. The Catholic church forbids abortion.
Francis didn't mention if under his watch things might change in how women are treated in the Catholic church. According to Vatican teaching, women can't become priests. And the top job — the papacy — has been strictly for males.
He contended that if we want a better world in the new year, we should treat women with dignity.
Francis urged that women become "fully associated" with decision-making in order to make the world more united and at peace.
"And if we want a better world, that is a house of peace and not a courtyard of war, may the dignity of every woman be at the heart of it," Francis said. "Women are givers and mediators of peace, and should be fully associated with decision-making processes."
He added: "For when women can transmit their gifts, the world finds itself more united and more in peace. So, a conquest for women is a conquest for the whole of humanity."
Francis didn't comment on how the Catholic church treats women. As well as women not being allowed to be priests, some conservative elements of the Catholic church are scandalized by parishes that allow girls to be altar servers. And, as The Associated Press has reported, there have been instances of priests — who are supposed to be celibate — impregnating women, and then not recognizing the child as their offspring.
Reflecting on the state of affairs of the church, Francis cautioned against divisions, blaming the devil for those who emphasize differences, ideologies and factions.


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1). He is working on an ongoing study of endogenous institutional change focusing on networks and norms of entrepreneurs and firms in the Yangzi delta region of China. Why and how did a modern capitalist economic order emerge in China? Where do economic institutions come from? In Capitalism from Below: Markets and Institutional Change (Harvard University Press 2012), he and Sonja Opper detail the theory and evidence in explaining the emergence of economic institutions of capitalism. The study employs "mixed-methods" integrating a longitudinal quantitative survey of private firms and CEOs (2006, 2009, 2012), face-to-face qualitative interviews with entrepreneurs and field experiments. The 2012 survey of firms collects network data using a name-generator instrument. A series of papers are in progress drawing on the longitudinal data set to examine a broad range of problems in economic sociology. These include examining the reflexive basis of reputation in multiplex networks, identifying the sources of trust in a low-trust society, examining the flow of novel ideas and innovation in multiplex networks, and the sources of cooperation in competitive markets.
2). He has begun a new research program on the making of knowledge-based regional economies in the United States. This entails research on the emergence and development in New York City of high tech startup firms, and on the role of research universities like Cornell in sustaining knowledge-based economic activity. A sequel to the Yangzi delta study, the new study examines innovative activity and entrepreneurial action in the context of inclusive political and economic institutions of the United States.
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Nathdwara is city of Shreenathji (Swarup of Krishna) in the Rajsamand district of the state of Rajasthan, India. It is located in the Aravalli hills, on the banks of the Banas River and is 48 kilometres north-east of Udaipur. Shrinathji,  is a swarup of lord Krishna which resembles his 7-year-old "infant" incarnation of Krishna. The deity was originally worshiped at Mathura and was shifted in the 1672 from Govardhan hill, near Mathura along holy river Yamuna after being retained at Agra for almost six months. Literally, Nathdwara means 'Gateway to Shrinathji (God)'. Nathdwara is a significant Vaishnavite shrine pertaining to the Pushti Marg or the Vallabh Sampradaya or the Shuddha Advaita founded by Vallabha Acharya, revered mainly by people of Gujarat and Rajasthan, among others. Vitthal Nathji, son of Vallabhacharya institutionalised the worship of Shrinathji at Nathdwara. Today also the Royal king family of Nathdwara belongs to the lineage of vallabhacharya mahaprabhuji. They are called Tilkayat or tikaet of Nathdwara.

Shrinathji Temple

The shrine at Nathdwara was built in the 17th century at the spot as exactly ordained by Shrinathji himself. The idol of the Lord Krishna was being transferred from Vrindaban to protect it from the Mughal ruler Aurangzeb. When the idol reached the spot at village Sihad or Sinhad, the wheels of bullock cart in which the idol was being transported sank axle-deep in mud and could not be moved any further. The accompanying priests realised that the particular place was the Lord's chosen spot and accordingly, a temple was built there under the rule and protection of the then Maharana Raj Singh of Mewar. Shrinathji Temple is also known as 'Haveli of Shrinathji' (mansion).

Other Temples
•Shri Navneetpriyaji Mandir- Shri navneet priyaji is a prominent swarup of pushtimarg. Navneet priyaji is considered as moving form of Shrinathji and is the personal  Thakurji of Gusaiji. People believe that the person who visits Nathdwara for darshan of Shrinathji must visit shri Navneet priyaji temple. The current head of the temple is The Tilkayat Maharaj of Shrinathji Temple.

•Shri vitthalnathji mandir- It is 2nd peeth or gaadi of pushtimarg of vallabh sect. It is mainly known for self manifested deity shri vitthalnathji. It is a beautiful temple with rajasthani art work. Current head of temple is HH Dwitiya peethadhish Gosvami shri 108 shri Kalyanraiji Maharaj of Indore.

• Vanmaaliji temple- This temple also belongs to vallabh sect pushtimarg and is an ancient temple of Lord vanmaali(Krishna).

• Madanmohanji temple- This temple is a Krishna temple which under vallabh sect only.

• Yamunaji temple- situated at Pritam poli, Nathdwara, it is a temple dedicated to the Goddess river Yamunaji. It also comes under vallabh sect of pushtimarg.

Geography and Transport
Nathdwara is located at . It has an average elevation of 584 metres (1919 ft). Located just 48 km north-east of Udaipur in Rajasthan, this town is easily reached by air, road or nearest rail-head.

Demographics
, Nathdwara had a population of 37,007. Males constitute 52% of the population and females 48%. Nathdwara has an average literacy rate of 73.0%, higher than the national average of 59.5%; male literacy is 80%, and female literacy is 65%. In Nathdwara, 13% of the population is under 6 years of age.

Artists of Nathdwara

Nathdwara Artists are a group of artists working around the precincts of the famous Nathdwara temple in Rajasthan. They are noted for Rajasthani-style paintings, called Pichwai Paintings, belonging to the Mewar School. The paintings revolve around the image of Shrinathji, the enigmatic black-faced figure of Krishna, who is shown holding up Mount Govardhan.  Several authoritative books have been published on this subject.

Apart from Pichwai Paintings, the artists also produce small-scale paintings on paper. Themes from Krishna legend predominate. Mentioned under notable citizens are some of the famous artists who have won accolades/awards in the past.

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Hindu holy cities
Cities and towns in Rajsamand district
Hindu temples in Rajasthan
Tourist attractions in Rajsamand district

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Guwahati: Amid tight security, the much-awaited second and final draft of the National Register of Citizens (NRC) was published today with over 2.89 crore names out of the total 3.29 crore applicants in Assam, Registrar General of India Sailesh said here.
Around 40.07 lakh applicants, however, did not find a place in the historic document, touted to be a proof of Assamese identity.
A senior police officer said prohibitory orders under Sec. 144 of CrPC have been imposed in all the 33 districts of the state as a precautionary measure in the wake of the NRC release.
The final draft is available for perusal at all the NRC sewa kendras (NSKs) in the state.
The applicants can also visit the NRC website or call 24×7 toll-free numbers -15107 from Assam and 18003453762 from outside Assam – and refer to their 21-digit Application Receipt Number(ARN) to find out the details.
Declining comment on non-inclusion of around 40.07 lakh applicants, NRC State Coordinator Prateek Hajela said the exercise was carried out as per the instructions of the Supreme Court.
Four categories of people – doubtful voters, their descendants, people whose cases were pending at Foreigners Tribunals and their offspring – were not included in the list, he said.
Hajela also said people would be able to reapply for inclusion at the sewa kendras.
"The process for making claims and objections will begin on 30 August and continue till 28 September. Adequate and ample scope will be given to people for making objections. No genuine Indian citizen should have any fear," he added.
Assam is the first Indian state where the NRC is being updated after 1951, with 24 March, 1971 as the cut-off date, to include names of genuine Indian citizens.
The first NRC draft, with 1.9 crore names, was released during the intervening night of 31 December and 1 January this year.
The ground work for this mammoth exercise began in December 2013 and 40 hearings have taken place in the Supreme Court in this regard over the last three years.
The application process for the NRC started in May 2015 and a total of 6.5 crore documents were received from 68.27 lakh families across Assam.
Minutes after release of the final draft, Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh said the exercise was carried out in an "impartial and transparent" manner.
"No coercive action will be taken against anyone. Hence, there is no need for anyone to panic," he told reporters in New Delhi.
Congratulating the people of the state, Chief Minister Sarbananda Sonowal said the "historic day will remain etched in their memories forever".
The process of draft publication was carried out in cooperation with the Registrar General of India, along with the central and the state governments, under the direct supervision of the Supreme Court, the CM said.
"For this remarkable feat, I extend my heartiest congratulations to the 55,000 officials engaged in the process of updating NRC and the people living across the Barak and Brahmaputra valleys, plains and hills of the state," he said.
The CM also appealed to people to refrain from making "communal and inflammatory remarks" in the wake of the publication of the final draft.
Several north-eastern states which share borders with Assam have also kept their police forces on alert to thwart possible infiltration of illegal immigrants.
Indira Gandhi was very clear about the burden due to large number of across the border illegal immigrants. She was not explicit votary of वसुधैव कुटुम्बकम् । In real politics one has to take pragmatic decisions, not just being dogmatic.


Loves me every day the same, Even calls me by my name.
Sing with thankfulness songs of pure delight.
Come and reveal in heaven's love and light.
Take your place at the table of the King.
The feast is ready to begin, the feast is ready to begin!
Of course, it is the assuring 23rd Psalm that is likely the most echoed song of all. If you don't know it by heart, click here and pray through (or sing to your own tune) the familiar words. As you claim being a lamb of God's own keeping, a sheep in his own fold, may comfort, joy, and assurance, echo throughout your life.
Alleluia! Christ, the Good Shepherd of us all, is Risen!
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Air pollution is created in numerous ways (power, transport, industry, dust, waste, agriculture), which therefore need multiple lines of attack on all fronts.
While understanding the contributing shares of each of these sources is important, there is no point in deflecting action on any one source by getting bogged down in debating relative shares. All major sources are bad and need to be attacked.
Finally, the action plan must have quantifiable time-bound objectives against which progress can be tracked rather than relying on a set of disparate open-ended measures.
National Ambient Air Quality Standards (NAAQS) are in place, so action needs to be planned and tracked against these standards. This focus will ensure that we do not lose momentum each time we get a seasonal improvement.
There have been many positive measures over the past few years dealing with cleaner fuels, renewable energy, improved technology etc. Continued focus on implementation and enforcement remains necessary.
While individual measures make sense, action must be planned holistically to keep track of the overall progress being made.
The recent attempt to introduce emissions standards for the thermal power industry puts in perspective the governance process for essential air quality safeguards.
Thermal power plants are major sources of a range of pollutants, including particulate matter, SOx, NOx, and mercury. This is particularly true of older plants, that are not only more polluting but also are inefficient and use copious amounts of water.
In December 2015, the MoEFCC introduced comprehensive emission standards for thermal power plants and allowed 24 months till December 2017 for implementation. The deadline of December 7, 2017, passed, and little was done by the industry to comply. It must be noted that the largest owner and operator of thermal power plants are federal (NTPC) and state-owned utilities.
The recent judiciary-driven action in the National Capital Region (NCR) is welcome, but this is a nationwide problem and must be tackled accordingly.
Even if the MoEFCC and the CPCB become more visibly active, the question of their jurisdiction over activities under control of other Ministries such as power, industry, transport, urban development, agriculture etc remains.
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Home K-POP Stray Kids' Hyunjin joins idols accused of bullying
Stray Kids' Hyunjin joins idols accused of bullying
Recently several cases have been revealed where Korean actors and idols were accused of school violence, a new account points to Hyunjin as an alleged assailant.
The person in charge of posting the message stated that while he was at school he was a partner of the Stray Kids member. He and other students managed to get into a small agency and began to act taking small roles that helped them improve their skills, but according to his account, Hyunjin would have questioned him about what kind of project it was, belittling his ability to debut earlier.
After the incident, the students involved began to suffer verbal abuse from the idol as well as other boys within a group chat.
JYP Entertainment shares a message regarding the allegations
The company reported that they will not take this situation lightly, they are already listening to the opinions of students and people close to the situation within the school environment, so they were also open to directly hearing the story from whoever published the statement in online communities.
Although the investigation by JYP Entertainment continues, the statement noted that they have already confirmed that some parts of the story are false, so although they will not rest until they have the absolute truth, they also plan to take legal action against those who created and spread rumors. false that affect the image of Hyunjin and Stray Kids.


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2015/16 Premiership preview - Celtic
PREDICTED LEAGUE FINISH: First
LAST SEASON: 1st, 92pts
NOTABLE INS: Dedryck Boyata (Manchester City, £1.5m), Nadir Ciftci (Dundee United, £1.2m), Logan Bailly (OH Leuven, £250k), Saidy Janko (Manchester United)
NOTABLE OUTS: Adam Matthews (Sunderland, £2m), Amido Balde (Metz), Joe Chalmers (Motherwell), Holmbert Fridjonsson (KR Reykjavik), John Herron (Blackpool), Jackson Irvine (Ross County, loan made permanent), Teemu Pukki (Brondby, loan made permanent), Michael Duffy (Alloa Athletic, loan), Jason Denayer (Manchester City, end of loan), John Guidetti (Manchester City, end of loan), Aleksandar Tonev (Aston Villa, end of loan), Mubarak Wakaso (Rubin Kazan, end of loan), Lukasz Zaluska
LAST SEASON'S BEST XI (departed players crossed out): Gordon, Lustig, Denayer, Van Dijk, Izaguirre, Brown, Bitton, Forrest, Commons, Johansen, Griffiths
As is the annual tradition, let's start by congratulating Celtic on winning the 2015/16 Scottish Premiership title.
Come on, it's inevitable. They won the league by 17 points last season. The worst that can happen is that Aberdeen narrow the gap a bit. At best, we might be able to pretend there's a contest right up to Easter again.
This makes previewing Celtic's season hard, because having more resources than every other Premiership club put together means they have better players in every position too. So any criticism has to be taken in the context of where the club are aiming to be - back in the group stages of the Champions League. For all their domestic dominance, a second successive failure to get through the qualifiers would leave another enormous hole in their finances.
It's not as if, compared to Celtic bosses of the past, Ronny Deila has been given a huge budget to work with. So far this summer the net spend is less than a million pounds; the last time the club's net spend in a season was seven figures was when Gordon Strachan was boss. And missing out on the big bucks last season won't have helped. But the team were impressive enough in the first half of 2015 to reassure Deila that only some tinkering is required, rather than a major overhaul.
And so the transfer activity has been concentrated on filling gaps left by departing players. One backup keeper out (Lukasz Zaluska), one in (Logan Bailly); one centre-back out (Jason Denayer), one in (Dedryck Boyata); one right-back out (Adam Matthews), one in (Saidy Janko), one striker out (John Guidetti), one in (Nadir Ciftci). Time will tell if the new faces are an improvement on what's gone before.
Deila can afford all of the new boys to be failures bar Boyata, who he needs to do well - not only to replace the outstanding loanee Denayer, but because it seems inevitable that Virgil Van Dijk will leave once the European qualifiers are over. If that means the disaster-prone Efe Ambrose is playing more regularly this season, the league might be marginally more interesting. The £1.2million spent on Ciftci was a curious move; whilst he is proven against league opponents, is he really better than what they've already got? And has he got the ability for the big European stage? We'll see.
Celtic won't be short of goals on weekends though. And even if he joins Stefan Scepovic as a bust, they can still turn to Leigh Griffiths and Anthony Stokes. The attacking midfield options are delicious - only three out of Gary Mackay-Steven, Stuart Armstrong, Kris Commons, Stefan Johansen, James Forrest and Ciftci would play, which leaves the prospect of the others being available as subs. Scott Brown and Nir Bitton will boss every other midfield in the country, though it would be nice to see young Liam Henderson get some action too.
Even if Janko isn't impressive (and he probably will be, given that Manchester United wanted to keep him), Mikael Lustig will be fit again at right-back. On the other side, Emilio Izaguirre seems to have had a new lease of life under Deila after a few unremarkable seasons. And of course they're set with Craig Gordon in goal.
But can they succeed in Europe? I'm not sure. They're definitely more cohesive and more impressive than twelve months ago, and they will be seeded in every qualifying round, but there are some very difficult opponents out there. If they do get through, I imagine they'd be favourites to finish bottom of a group. But let's cross that bridge when they come to it. Just being in the Champions League will be enough.
Win a treble and progress in Europe, and Deila will be a deity. Accomplish neither, and it'll be interesting to see whether five-in-a-row and a single cup (or even none at all) will be sufficient to stave off any grumbling.
THE SQUAD (players born after 1 January 1994 in italics)
Goalkeepers: Logan Bailly, Craig Gordon
Defenders: Efe Ambrose, Dedryck Boyata, Darnell Fisher, Emilio Izaguirre, Saidy Janko, Mikael Lustig, Charlie Mulgrew, Eoghan O'Connell, Kieran Tierney, Virgil Van Dijk
Midfielders: Stuart Armstrong, Nir Bitton, Derk Boerrigter, Scott Brown, Kris Commons, Liam Henderson, Stefan Johansen, Gary Mackay-Steven, Dylan McGeouch, Callum McGregor, Tom Rogic
Forwards: Nadir Ciftci, James Forrest, Leigh Griffiths, Stefan Scepovic, Anthony Stokes
THE BEST XI?
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