Program Design

Program Design TIG Week: Evaluations for Program Development: Lessons Learned from Six Months of Virtual Community-Building by Asma M. Ali

I am Asma M. Ali, of AA & Associates LLC and the Sinai Urban Health Institute in Chicago. Greetings from the Windy City! As a community-based and culturally responsive evaluator, many of my evaluation projects are now being conducted virtually. There are both advantages and disadvantages to conducting these types of evaluation on-line. Virtual projects …

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Program Design TIG Week: Engaging Program Stakeholders in Theory of Change and Logic Modeling by Patricia Moore Shaffer

Hi! My name is Patricia Moore Shaffer, and I am the Deputy Director, Research & Analysis, at the National Endowment for the Arts, in Washington, DC. Theory of change and logic modeling are tools that program managers and evaluators often use to describe how a program is supposed to work. A theory of change permits the reader …

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Program Design TIG Week: Defunding the Police Bias: A Thought Exercise for Discussing Achievable and Measurable Solutions by Lyn Boswell

Hi! I’m Lyn Boswell, a member of the Program Design Topical Group. I have worked abroad in monitoring and evaluation (M & E) in various cultures. In the U.S., designing metrics to determine effectiveness of programs requires avoiding different “bias minefields” in achieve objectivity and validity.  For example, the controversial topic of “defunding the police” …

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Program Design TIG Week: The Power of Document Models in Program Design by Jacqueline Singh

Hello! My name is Jacqueline Singh, MPP, PhD., Executive Advisor Evaluation and Program Design at Qualitative Advantage, LLC. I’m also Co-chair of the AEA Program Design TIG and Board Member at Large, Policy Committee Chair for Indiana Evaluation Association. Over the years, I’ve learned that program implementors and decision makers are incentivized to advance well …

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Program Design TIG Week: Research Activism for Youth: Facilitating a Virtual, Community-based Skill- Building Program by Asma M. Ali & Myles Castro

We are Asma M. Ali Ph.D. and Myles Castro MPH of the Sinai Urban Health Institute [SUHI] in Chicago. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, we recently changed the format of SUHI’s Research Activism for Youth [RAY] program from an in-person into a 100% virtual program. RAY is a 6-week community-based program that empowers youth ages …

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Program Design TIG Week: What is a program? by Catherine Nameth & Jacqueline Singh

Hello! It’s a pleasure to introduce this week’s series hosted by the Program Design TIG. We are Catherine Nameth, PhD (Program Chair) and Jacqueline Singh, PhD (TIG Co-Chair). In addition to serving in our AEA leadership roles, we meet regularly to talk about program design in our work contexts (higher education and consultancy) and other fields. What …

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Breathing Life Into a Living Document: PDTIG Strategic Plan by Jacqueline Singh

Greetings! My name is Jacqueline Singh. I’m an Executive Evaluation and Program Design Advisor at Qualitative Advantage, LLC and Program Design TIG Program Chair. As a new member to the PDTIG, it’s been an exciting first year due to an opportunity to lead our Leadership Team through a process to reassess aspects of the PDTIG. …

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Evaluation and Program Sustainability by Kylie Hutchinson

Hello!  I’m Kylie Hutchinson (a.k.a. @EvaluationMaven), an independent evaluation consultant and trainer with Community Solutions Planning & Evaluation. One of the most popular AEA365 posts over time is Annaliese Calhoun’s Measuring Sustainability Capacity and Planning for Long Term Success. I suspect this is because as evaluators, our work can regularly stray into the area of …

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Know before you grow – tips from supporting program replication by Jessica Manta-Meyer

Greetings! Jessica Manta-Meyer here, a Director at Public Profit, a consulting firm helping mission-driven organizations measure and manage what matters. Have you thought about creating a replication manual, but didn’t know where to start? Or worried you’ll put in a titanic amount of time creating a manual to train staff at new sites, only to …

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Debi Lang on The Importance of Learning Objectives in Program Design and Evaluation

Hello from Debi Lang with the Massachusetts Area Health Education Center Network (MassAHEC) at the University of Massachusetts Medical School’s Center for Health Policy and Research. I last published an aea365 post on how evaluation and program staff collaborated to establish a competency-based model for a range of MassAHEC Health Careers Promotion and Preparation (HCPP) …

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