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A few Hot Tips for Designing Quality Survey Questions by Kim Firth Leonard and Sheila Robinson

1 Comment / Uncategorized / January 17, 2023

Hello! We are Kim Firth Leonard, Leonard Research & Evaluation, LLC, and Oregon Community Foundation, and Sheila B. Robinson, Custom Professional Learning, LLC, co-authors of the text Designing Quality Survey Questions (Sage, 2018). We met on Twitter and now have been writing about survey design together for 10 years via our blogs, working with clients to design surveys, teaching survey design workshops, and presenting about survey design at conferences, including AEA.

Susan Kistler on Welcoming Sheila Robinson and Contributing to aea365

Leave a Comment / Uncategorized / January 29, 2013

I am Susan Kistler, the American Evaluation Association’s Executive Director and aea365’s regular Saturday contributor. So, what I am doing here on this fine Monday? On Saturday, I had to share the Evaluation 2013 Call for Proposals, but I had another piece of news to spread the word about as well. Sheila B. Robinson will …

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Sheila Robinson Kohn on Igniting the Morning!

Leave a Comment / Data Visualization and Reporting / October 25, 2012

I’m Sheila Robinson Kohn from Greece Central School District and the University of Rochester, both in Rochester, NY. I’m here in Minneapolis at AEA2012 and while most of my mornings are ignited with oatmeal and coffee, THIS morning I had the pleasure of attending and presenting at my first Ignite session. Chris Lysy, our session …

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PD CoP Week: Marguerite Dimgba and Sheila Robinson Kohn on Evaluating Professional Development: Guskey Level 4 – Participant’s Use Of New Knowledge And Skills

3 Comments / Data Visualization and Reporting, Disabilities and Underrepresented Populations, Organizational Learning and Evaluation Capacity Building, Prek-12 Educational Evaluation / July 27, 2012

Hi! We are Marguerite Dimgba and Sheila Robinson Kohn, Professional Learning Center Director and Policy Board Chair, from Greece Central School District in Rochester, NY. While Guskey indicates that this level of evaluation cannot be completed at the end of a professional development (PD) session or even multi-session course, we do begin to gather data …

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EDEval Week: Sheila Robinson Kohn on IES – Institute of Education Sciences

Leave a Comment / Prek-12 Educational Evaluation / May 12, 2012

Hello! I’m Sheila Robinson Kohn from Greece Central School District and University of Rochester in NY and program chair for the PreK-12 Educational Evaluation TIG. Welcome to our 2nd annual sponsored AEA365 week, in honor of Teacher Appreciation Week! Here is our TIG’s mission, vision, and values in abbreviated form; please visit our website for …

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Sheila Robinson Kohn and Kankana Mukhopadhyay on Student Perspectives on Reading AEA365

Leave a Comment / Teaching of Evaluation / January 2, 2012

Hello! I am Sheila Robinson Kohn, and I teach Program Evaluation Methods at the University of Rochester’s Warner School of Education. In June 2010, my post Using the AEA365 Blog as a Teaching Tool appeared here, and since then, my graduate students have continued to read and share aea365 blog entries in class. Last November, …

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Captivate Your Crowd with Audience Engagement Principles by Sheila B. Robinson

Leave a Comment / Uncategorized / October 9, 2023

Hi! I’m Sheila B. Robinson, Ed.D. of Custom Professional Learning, LLC. I’m a speaker, educator, consultant, and yes, a program evaluator too!

In my first career as an educator, I dedicated years to co-teaching and coaching/mentoring teachers. I was intrigued by teachers who possessed a talent for engaging students. Was it their lively personalities, raw charisma, carefully crafted lesson plans, or the particular activities the students were doing that made the difference? I began observing closely and taking notes. As I transitioned from the classroom to the conference room creating and facilitating professional development courses for teachers and school leaders, the answer became clear: it’s all of the above!

Saying good-bye to AEA365 by Sheila B. Robinson

6 Comments / Uncategorized / September 25, 2021

Hello dear readers! Sheila B. Robinson here, AEA365’s Lead Curator and sometimes Saturday contributor with my last post from this uh,… post! After 8.5 years, it’s time for me to move on. AEA365 has been a labor of love and it’s hard to express just how interesting, exciting, educative, and rewarding this role has been …

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A Call to Check out AEA’s Policy Advocacy Work by Sheila B. Robinson

Leave a Comment / Uncategorized / August 6, 2021

Hi! I’m Sheila B Robinson, aea365’s lead curator, and sometimes Saturday contributor. From time to time I write about various aspects of our association, events or learning opportunities AEA offers. To date however, I haven’t written about the policy advocacy that AEA engages in, and this is critically important work. Lesson Learned: According to our …

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Cool Tricks for Learning in the Summer Heat! by Sheila B Robinson

Leave a Comment / Uncategorized / July 3, 2021

Curator Note: I wrote this post a couple of years ago and we’ve since updated our website and the post got a bad case of link rot! ? This version is updated with the current links! Happy Summer AEA365ers! I’m Sheila B Robinson, AEA365’s Lead Curator and sometimes Saturday contributor with some great summer learning …

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