Hello! I’m Lori Wingate, director of The Evaluation Center at Western Michigan University. In 1999, less than two years after starting my job at The Evaluation Center, I was charged with developing and curating an online collection of evaluation checklists as part of a National Science Foundation-funded project to support STEM evaluators in their practice. …
Greetings everyone! I’m Guili Zhang, Department Chair and Professor of Research & Evaluation Methodology at East Carolina University. I am also honored to be Co-Author (with Daniel Stufflebeam) of the CIPP Evaluation Model book, Board of Directors member of the American Evaluation Association, Advisory Board member of the American Journal of Evaluation (AJE). Over …
I’m Tamara Young, an associate professor in Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis at North Carolina State University. I teach evaluation theory and practice. Today, I’m going to discuss a project that I am developing to help students and me be more conscientious about addressing social justice, equity, diversity and inclusion (SJEDI) in evaluation with special attention to racial …
Toward Racial-Equity: A SJEDI Checklist by Tamara Young Read More »
My name is Tom Chapel, and I’m CDC’s Chief Evaluation Officer. CDC’s Framework for Program Evaluation in Public Health is the source document for how our programs and funded partners conduct evaluations. The Framework was first published as a scientific article–it wasn’t intended to be user-friendly guidance. Over time, we’ve created resources that are more …
CDC Week: User-Friendly, Accessible Guidance–Framework Checklists by Tom Chapel Read More »
Hello from Atlanta, Georgia! I’m Goldie MacDonald, and I am the Associate Director for Evaluation in the Center for Surveillance, Epidemiology, and Laboratory Services at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). Rad Resource: I’m excited to share the Checklist of Key Considerations for Development of Program Logic Models with this community. With support …
We are Kelly Robertson and Lori Wingate, and we work at The Evaluation Center at Western Michigan University and EvaluATE, the National Science Foundation-funded evaluation resource center for Advanced Technological Education (ATE). Rad Resource: We’re excited to announce our new rad resource, the “Checklist of Program Evaluation Report Content.” We created this checklist to address …
We are Lori Wingate and Daniela Schroeter from Western Michigan University (WMU). Until recently we both worked at the WMU’s Evaluation Center (Daniela is now in the School of Public Affairs and Administration), where we had the opportunity to work on evaluations, conduct research on evaluation, and teach evaluation to a broad audience and in …
Venturing into social media can be a daunting task since the various platforms are growing so quickly. Developing a checklist can be an easy way to get started in social media and organize your social strategy and routine. I have outlined a few ways you can start developing your social media checklist. Define your audience …
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Hi, I’m Maureen Wilce, a founding member of the Atlanta-area Evaluation Association, and I’m Sarah Gill, president elect of AaEA. We’re both “true believers” in the power of evaluation to guide organizational learning. We’ve seen how good evaluation questions can help uncover important information to improve programs. We’ve also seen the opposite: how bad evaluation …
My name is Ray Kennard Haynes and I am an Assistant Professor at Indiana University- Bloomington and I have a keen interest domestic racial Diversity in Higher Education (HE). Since the 1970s the United States (U.S.) has attempted to address Diversity by focusing primarily on race and gender through Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO) legislation. This …
