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DVR TIG Week: Benchmarking Foundation Evaluation Practices 2020: Tips from our dataviz process by Piper Grandjean Targos and Devin Larsen

Hello! We are Piper Grandjean Targos and Devin Larsen of Ascending Edge Creative Evaluation (EdgeEval), and Kat Athanasiades and Albertina Lopez of the Center for Evaluation Innovation (CEI). Recently, we collaborated on a report benchmarking foundation evaluation practice. Rad Resource: Check out our hot-off-the-press report, Benchmarking Foundation Evaluation Practices 2020. It offers a window into …

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LAWG Week: Building Community: Building the Minnesota Evaluation Community – Creative and Innovative Approaches by Jean A. King

This is Jean King, Professor Emerita at the University of Minnesota and founder and former director of the Minnesota Evaluation Studies Institute (MESI), so named because, as we all know, evaluation is MESI/“messy.” Building a collaborative community of program evaluators and clients is one consistent MESI goal, enacted in a variety of ways: A website …

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Labor Day Week: Tales from the Ingle Award Files by Jean A. King

My name is Jean King, Professor Emerita at the University of Minnesota. I was honored with the Robert Ingle Service Award in 1999 for my work organizing and running AEA’s annual meetings; I was Local Arrangements Chair in 1988, then served as Associate Conference Chair (1992-1995) and Conference Chair (1996-1999). I continued to serve, first …

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STEM TIG Week: Courtney Blackwell, Heather King, and Jeanne Century on Bringing Coherency to Evaluating Computer Science Education

We are Courtney Blackwell, Heather King, and Jeanne Century from Outlier Research & Evaluation at the University of Chicago. For the last 3.5 years, we have been researching and evaluating computer science education efforts. Computer Science (CS) is becoming a buzzword in education, with educators, policymakers, and industry developers promoting CS as key to developing …

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GAO Week: Finding Our Roots and Bonds, AEA at 35 and GAO at 100 by Valerie Jean Caracelli

Colleagues, Happy Anniversary! Each anniversary is a time when we take stock of what brings us to today and where we are headed tomorrow. This week we celebrate the close collegial relationship between the American Evaluation Association (AEA) and the U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) throughout these 35 years. This week’s entries will address GAO’s …

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Visionary Evaluation Week: Being a Visionary Evaluative in the Health Field by Jeanne Ayers

I’m Jeanne Ayers, author of Health: Building Our Power to Create Health Equity, in the new book, Visionary Evaluation for a Sustainable, Equitable Future. In my day job, I’m the State Health Officer, Division of Public Health for Wisconsin. Public health is what we do collectively to assure the conditions in which we can all …

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DG TIG Week: Evaluating Complex Rule of Law Programs Using Contribution Analysis by Jeanette Tocol

Hi! I am Jeanette Tocol, and I am a Senior Monitoring and Evaluation Officer from Research, Evaluation and Learning Division of the American Bar Association Rule of Law Initiative (ABA ROLI). Hot Tip: In a recent internal evaluation I conducted, I used contribution analysis (CA) to assess the extent of contribution of a court automation …

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Tom Archibald and Jane Buckley on Evaluative Thinking: The ‘Je Ne Sais Quoi’ of Evaluation Capacity Building and Evaluation Practice

Hi, we are Tom Archibald and Jane Buckley with the Cornell Office for Research on Evaluation. Among other initiatives, we work in partnership with non-formal educators to build evaluation capacity. We have been exploring the idea of evaluative thinking, which we believe is an essential, yet elusive, ingredient in evaluation capacity building (ECB). Below, we …

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PreK-12 Ed Eval TIG Week: It’s All About Relationships by Lisa M. Jones

Greetings! I am Lisa Jones, a Managing Researcher at McREL International. I joined the field of evaluation with my “tools” that many evaluators hold—our education makes us good technicians. However, technical know-how is not enough. The “accountability age” opened the market for program evaluators. Title 1-funded schools could only implement evidence-based educational strategies. Likewise, federal …

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75th Birthday Tribute to MQP by Charmagne Campbell-Patton

Happy Saturday! My name is Charmagne Campbell-Patton, and I am the Director of Organizational Learning and Evaluation at Utilization-Focused Evaluation. I have the privilege of working with my father, Michael Quinn Patton, affectionately known as MQP to many of you. Michael is a founding member of AEA, frequent contributor to this blog and a mentor …

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