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IC TIG Week: Design and Evaluation — Same, Same, but Different by Anna Martin & Katrina Mitchell

Hello fellow humans. My name is Anna Martin (she/her). I am an Evaluator, Social Worker, Facilitator, Complexity Coach, curious mischief maker and co-founder of Picture Impact. I have partnered with a designer (Katrina Mitchell) and it couldn’t be a happier work marriage—bringing forth new skills, perspectives and project roles. Evaluation and Design are wonderful trans-disciplines …

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Take Advantage of Canva’s Latest Updates by Jayne Corso

Hi, my name is Jayne Corso and I am the Community Manager for AEA. I have written a few Saturday posts about Canva, a great design tool for amateur designers! They recently updated their offerings, making it easier to creative graphics for social media, blogs, or websites. I wanted to share a few of these …

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Marissa Marzano on Making data stick with design

I’m Marissa Marzano, and I’m the Communications Specialist at the New Jersey Coalition Against Sexual Assault. I’ve sat through many a PowerPoint jam-packed with utterly fantastic information, only to leave a session and wonder, “What was that about again?” You’ve crunched the numbers, you’re geeking out over your results… now how do you ensure your …

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Jordan Slice on How Being a Creator Informs Being an Evaluator

Greetings to my fellow #DataNerds! My name is Jordan Slice. I am a Research Specialist at Richland One, an urban school district in Columbia, South Carolina. In addition to being a full-time evaluator, I create handmade pieces for my Etsy shop, resliced. As a handmade business owner, many of the sales I make are custom …

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Cameron Norman on The Evaluator-as-Designer

You might not think so, but I think you’re a designer. My name is Cameron Norman and I work with health and human service clients doing evaluation and design for innovation. As the Principal of CENSE Research + Design I bring together concepts like developmental evaluation, complexity science and design together for clients to help …

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Cameron Norman on Complexity Science for Evaluators

My name is Cameron Norman and I am the Principal of CENSE Research + Design. My work brings together complexity science and design together with developmental evaluation into something I refer to as developmental design, which is about making decisions in the face of changing conditions. Lesson Learned: At the heart of developmental evaluation is …

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Bloggers Series: John Nash on Contributing to Multiple Blogs

I’m John Nash and I’m an associate professor at the University of Kentucky in the department of educational leadership studies. I’m also co-founder of the OpenEye Group, a consultancy working in Europe and the States to enhance program impact in the social sector. Currently I’m blogging in several places in different capacities. I have a …

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Diane O. Dunet on Writing an Evaluation Purpose Statement

My name is Diane Dunet and I am a senior evaluator on the Evaluation and Program Effectiveness Team at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Division for Heart Disease and Stroke Prevention. Our team members use a written purpose statement for our program evaluations. In strategic planning, a mission statement serves as a touchstone …

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Systems Week: Morell on An Invitation to Test Integration of Traditional Eval & Agent Based Modeling

Hi, I’m Jonny Morell and I’m looking for people interested in how agent based modeling can be combined with traditional evaluation methods. For the past few years, I have been thinking and writing a lot about how evaluation can anticipate and respond to unexpected changes in programs. The difficulty as I see it is that …

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CAP Week: Sandra Eames on Utilization Focused Evaluation

My name is Sandra Eames, and I am a faculty member at Austin Community College and an independent evaluation consultant. For the last several years, I have been the lead evaluator on two projects from completely different disciplines.  One of the programs is an urban career and technical education program and the other is an …

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