Through the Evaluating Better Together conference, we seek to create a safe space to discuss the challenges we face in our evaluation work, to share our hard-earned lessons learned, and to build a community of evaluation in our region. This second annual conference is a gathering of evaluators in our region to collaborate on issues of evaluation design, implementation, and reporting. In hosting the conference, we seek to foster authentic relationships between current and future evaluators by discussing the challenges and innovations of our daily work.

Who should attend this Gathering?

We'd like to emphasize that this event is especially for professionals in the field. While the conference is organized by graduate students and hosted at the university, our biggest goal is to create a shared space in which all evaluation professionals in the region can connect and learn from one another.

This gathering will be similar in scope to that of the annual meetings of the Organization for Program Evaluation in Colorado at Peaceful Valley Lodge. These meetings allowed practitioners to meet up outside of the office in order to engage in roundtable discussions, present papers and posters, and engage in skill-building workshops. We are hoping to continue this meaningful and long-standing tradition while also helping young and aspiring evaluators to become familiar with our professional community.

Registration

Evaluating Better Together will be held on Friday, February 7, 2020. The keynote address will be open to the public and the remaining conference events will require registration for all attendees. Tea/coffee and snack service are included in the cost of registration; parking and lunch are available for purchase.

Registration is available through January 31, 2020 (one week in advance of the event). As space allows, same-day registration will be available on-site. Costs for same-day registration will increase by $10 and cash/card will be accepted.

Please note: presenters are expected to register and attend the full-day program.

Transportation

Parking passes can be purchased for $10/day (+ processing fee). Your parking pass will be mailed to you the week of the event and must be printed in hard copy and brought to the parking deck for use. Parking passes cannot be printed on site or purchased on the day of the event.

Attendees are encouraged to consider using other transportation options (see our event webpage for transportation options). In particular, the light rail station for the University of Denver is a short 3-block walk from the event venue (Katherine A. Ruffatto Hall, University of Denver, at the corner of East Evans Ave & High Street).

The address for the building in which the conference will be held is: 1999 E Evans Ave, Denver, CO 80208

Photo Release

By registering for this event I give permission to the University of Denver and press and media admitted to the event by the University of Denver the right to photograph, videotape or otherwise digitally collect my name, likeness, voice and sounds (as "Works") during my participation in the event. I further acknowledge the Works to be works made for hire, and otherwise irrevocably assign and grant to University of Denver all rights in these Works and the right to use or sublicense these Works and my name, likeness and biography, in the University of Denver's discretion, in all media and in all forms or purposes, including without limitation, advertising and other promotions for the University of Denver, without any further consideration to myself or my heirs, assigns, legal and personal representative(s).

Questions, Dietary Restrictions, or Disability Accommodations

Please email us at evaluatingbettertogether@gmail.com to reach out. We look forward to hearing from you!

Evaluating Better Together is organized and led by graduate students in the Research Methods and Statistics (RMS) program at the University of Denver. This event is sponsored by the Morgridge College of Education, the Colorado Evaluation Network, and REACH (the Research, Evaluation, and Assessment Collaboratory Hub at DU).