Hello! We are Tarek Azzam (Claremont Graduate University) and Matt Keene (Environmental Protection Agency). We are members of the External Review Panel for ECLIPS. Whoa! Even though it’s oh-so-tempting to try, you don’t need the perfect string of words to define “systems-oriented evaluation.” Lesson Learned: It’s in the roots of evaluation At its core a …
Hello! We are Karen Peterman (Karen Peterman Consulting, Co.) and Marah Moore (Director of i2i institute and ECLIPS coPI). We are going to talk about some of the implications of a systems approach for the role of the evaluator. In a recent Thought Leaders Forum, Michael Patton reminded us that evaluation is a transdisciplinary field. …
Hello, we are David Reider (Education Design, Inc.), Ginger Fitzhugh (Evaluation and Research Associates), and Alyssa Na’im (Education Development Center, Inc.). As ECLIPS members, we are incorporating systems concepts into STEM education evaluations related to the National Science Foundation program, Innovative Technology Experiences for Students and Teachers (ITEST). Keying off the iceberg diagram (see Monday’s …
Hello! We are Lloyd Bingman (Brighter Day Consulting, LLC and evaluator of an NSF STEM project) and Pat Jessup (InSites associate and coPI for ECLIPS). We’re here to talk about the “Patterns” portion of theiceberg diagram displayed on Monday of ECLIPS week. Both of us evaluate programs that are part of complex social systems that …
Hello! I’m David Hata, an independent consultant who serves as an external evaluator for a number of NSF-funded Advanced Technological Education (ATE) projects and centers. I’m here to share my experience helping a STEM project see itself as part of a system that creates value. For some clients, success is doing a lot of activities. …
ECLIPS & Systems TIG Week: David Hata on Looking to Interconnections for Value Creation Read More »
Greetings! We are Beverly Parsons (InSites and ECLIPS principal investigator) and Veronica Thomas (Howard University and ECLIPS external advisor). Today we introduce you to an exploratory research project, Evaluation Communities of Learning, Inquiry, and Practice about Systems (ECLIPS). It’s funded through a National Science Foundation grant to InSites. The ECLIPS Community of Practice is 15 …
Happy New Year! I’m Sheila B Robinson, AEA365’s Lead Curator and sometimes Saturday contributor. To some it’s just another date on the calendar; others see January 1, 2020 as a starting (or ending) point for something important, hailing it as the perfect time for new beginnings. 1.) Wikipedia’s interesting facts about 2020 lists of worldwide …
Happy New Year! 20 reasons to be excited about 2020 by Sheila B Robinson Read More »
Greetings loyal blog readers and Happy New Year! I’m Sheila B Robinson, Lead Curator and sometimes Saturday contributor for my favorite evaluation blog! It’s no news that I call myself aea365’s biggest fan, as this was the first evaluation blog I so fortuitously discovered on December 31, 2009. On that day, an announcement appeared on the …
Sheila B Robinson on Blogging in the New Year! Read More »
I am Susan Kistler, AEA’s Executive Director and aea365’s regular Saturday contributor. Today I wanted to share one of the raddest resources of all! Rad Resource – AEA Summer Evaluation Institute: Registration is now open for the AEA Summer Evaluation Training Institute, to be held June 3-5 in Atlanta, Georgia. Let’s take a look at …
Susan Kistler on the 2013 Summer Evaluation Training Institute Read More »
