Youth Focused Evaluation

YFE TIG Week: Moving beyond the ‘Whys’ and ‘Whats’ of adolescent-led evaluation to practical ‘Hows’ by Susan Igras and Ousséni Kinda

This post was original released on AEA365 in 2021, and was so popular the first time around, it is being reshared from the archives at the request of the Youth Focused Evaluation TIG. Greetings. We’re Susan Igras (Senior Technical Advisor at Georgetown University’s Institute for Reproductive Health and occasional Consultant) and Ousséni Kinda (Monitoring and Evaluation …

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YFE TIG Week: Interviewing Minors in Schools by Christine Crumbacher and Michael Sikes

This post was original released on AEA365 in 2020, and was so popular the first time around, it is being reshared from the archives at the request of the Youth Focused Evaluation TIG. We are Christine Crumbacher, PhD, Evaluation Specialist at Greenville County Schools in South Carolina, and Michael Sikes, PhD, independent Program Evaluator. Each …

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YFE TIG Week: Merging Resources to Meet the Challenges of Youth Programming Long-Term Follow-up by Deborah Wasserman, Kit Klein, Carey Tisdal, and Priya Mohabir

Deborah Wasserman, Kit Klein, Carey Tisdal, and Priya Mohabir are Co-PIs on Roads Taken: A Retrospective Study of Program Strategies and Long-term Impacts of Intensive, Multi-year, STEM Youth Programs (NSF AISL #1906396). Deborah is a senior researcher with COSI Center for Research and Evaluation in Columbus, OH; Kit and Carey both independent contractors have been …

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YFE TIG Week: Lessons from Youth Focused Evaluation at a Distance by Rebekah Davis

I am Dr. Rebekah Davis, a research associate at the Friday Institute (FI) for Educational Innovation. I was a teacher in public schools in North Carolina for almost twenty years before becoming a full-time member of the Program Evaluation and Education Research (PEER) group at the FI in 2021. I love that I have been …

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YFE TIG Week: Engaging with Youth and Young Emerging Evaluators by Cassandra Backman

Hi Everyone! I am Cassandra Backman, the Eval4Action representative for the Eval4Action North America Hub and a EvalYouth North America Board Member. The Eval4Action North America Hub in collaboration with EvalYouth North America has been working to engage those in evaluation roles to involve youth and young emerging evaluators in their work. We strive to …

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YFE TIG Week: Inviting Youth into the Evaluation Process with Qualitative Approaches by Jenna Sethi and Clare Eisenberg

We are Jenna Sethi, Ph.D., and Clare Eisenberg, M.Ed. of Informed Change. Informed Change is a consulting firm that helps youth-serving organizations tell their story of impact and use data for innovation. In our work, we use creative and participatory evaluation strategies that center youth voice. Hot Tips Our approach to qualitative research involves learning …

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YFE TIG Week: Youth Engagement during a Pandemic by Marcia M. Zorrilla

Hello! I’m Marcia M. Zorrilla, DrPH, MCHES and the Director of Positive Youth Development at the Stanford REACH Lab, Stanford School of Medicine. My years of experience in youth board development come from my work as a clinical health educator at a school-based health center where I established a Youth Advisory Board from the ground …

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YFE TIG Week: The Importance of Empathy in Youth Focused Evaluations by Monica Coleman, Shannon Sharp and Moira Ragan

Greetings! This is Monica Coleman at the Center for Research Evaluation (CERE) and doctoral student in Counselor Education and Supervision at the University of Mississippi. I am joined by my colleagues Shannon Sharp and Moira Ragan, evaluation associates at CERE. We are sharing our thoughts on using empathy—the ability to understand and share another person’s …

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YFE TIG Week: Empowering Young People to Advance Equity at Overnight Camp by Hannah Patterson

Hello! I am Hannah Patterson, the Evaluation Manager at Camp Fire National Headquarters. Camp Fire National Headquarters has embarked on an initiative with the goal of ensuring that all youth participating in overnight camp feel welcome, emotionally affirmed and physically comfortable. Our evaluations for this project centered on empowering youth to share their own program …

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YFE TIG Week: A positive youth development (PYD) approach to engaging young people in research & evaluation by Sarah Jonson

Hi, I’m Sarah Jonson (Technical Advisor for Youth Agency and Engagement, IYF). At IYF, engaging young people across the project life cycle, from activity design to measurement, evaluation, research and learning (MERL), is one way we practice inclusion and honor our commitment to youth engagement and youth-led evaluation. To ensure youth participation is meaningful, we …

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