We are Nichole Stewart and Laura Pryor and we’d like to share a preview of our presentation at the upcoming AEA 2013 conference. Our session, Performance Management to Program Evaluation: Creating a Complimentary Connection, will use a case study of a Los Angeles-based juvenile offender reentry program to demonstrate how “information and knowledge production” can …
Greetings! I am Carla Forrest, a staff member and Lean Six Sigma Black Belt at Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, New Mexico. My professional work involves configuration management of scientific and engineering knowledge and information. My passion, however, lies in using appreciative approaches to improve workplace performance. Rad Resource Recently I read “The 5 Languages of …
My name is Trina Willard and I am the Principal of Knowledge Advisory Group, a small consulting firm that provides research and evaluation services to nonprofits, government agencies and small businesses. With nearly two decades of work in the evaluation field under my belt, I’ve had many opportunities to engage leaders in discussions about evaluation …
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Hello. I am Tom Lyzenga, a PhD student at Western Michigan University, and chair of the Business, Leadership, and Performance TIG. I am also a training evaluator and performance consultant at a major international corporation. My tip today is about filling in blanks in an impact matrix or model. Challenge: Sometimes program stakeholders can’t provide …
Hello! I am Denise Roosendaal, AEA’s new Executive Director. I am thrilled to have been selected to lead the management team for American Evaluation Assocation. I appreciate the significant tenure of AEA Executive Director Emeritus Susan Kistler, and look forward to her continued involvement in the organization in her new role. The AEA has a …
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Howdy! I’m Tom Ward, and I am a faculty member of the U.S. Army Command and General Staff College at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas. In that capacity, I teach critical thinking, ethics, contracting, logistics, and “writing to persuade.” My passion, however, is knowledge management, and using KM to improve decision making. My tip today is about …
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We are from the College of Education and Human Sciences, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, with Timothy Guetterman, the doctoral student, and Delwyn Harnisch, the Professor. Mixed methods approaches can be useful in assessing needs and readiness to learn among professional workshop participants. Combining qualitative and quantitative methods can enhance triangulation and completeness of findings. We recently …
Hello evaluators, my name is Sid Ali and I am Principal Consultant at Research and Evaluation Consulting. I do much of my work in education and training settings, and this often takes me into the corporate, environment. I have found that there is great benefit to both the evaluator and the client in using tried …
Hi, I am Robin T. Kelley and am an internal evaluator at a national nonprofit health organization that is funded by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to provide free capacity building assistance to HIV prevention organizations, health departments and their HIV planning groups. In the HIV/AIDS field, there are a number of changes …
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My name is Ellen Steiner, Director of Market Research and Evaluation at Energy Market Innovations, a research-based consultancy focused on strategic program design and evaluation for the energy efficiency industry – we work to create an energy future that is sustainable for coming generations. Lessons Learned: An increasingly common practice… In energy efficiency program evaluations, …
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