Hi, I’m Xiaoxia Newton, a member of the 2019-2020 Guiding Principles Working Group and an Associate Professor at Cato College of Education, University of North Carolina Charlotte. In this blog, I share what my colleagues and I learned about the tension between evaluators actively engaging program stakeholders in the evaluation process and evaluators’ obligation to …
I am Mónica Ruiz-Casares, member of the AEA Guiding Principles Working Group (GPWG).I am Associate Professor in the Division of Social and Transcultural Psychiatry at McGill University, Researcher at the Sherpa University Institute, and Credentialed Evaluator by the Canadian Evaluation Society. An active member of AEA for the past 25 years, I regularly teach and publish on …
The AEA Evaluators’ Ethical Guiding Principles by Mónica Ruiz-Casares Read More »
I’m Alison Miranda, Senior Learning Officer with global transparency and accountable governance funder collaborative Transparency and Accountability Initiative (TAI). Inspired by conversations at recent convenings of the European Evaluation Society (EES) and the Evidence in Governance and Politics (EGAP) researcher-practitioner network, I share below tips and examples that might help evaluation practitioners and commissioners put …
Putting values into evaluative practice – Part II by Alison Miranda Read More »
I’m Alison Miranda, Senior Learning Officer with the global transparency and accountable governance funder collaborative Transparency and Accountability Initiative. Conversations among global experts at recent convenings of the European Evaluation Society (EES) and the Evidence in Governance and Politics (EGAP) researcher-practitioner network grappled with placing values in evaluative practice. Rad Resources: For those who may …
Understanding values in evaluation – Part I by Alison Miranda Read More »
Greetings, fellow AEAers! I’m Jeremy Braithwaite, PhD, community evaluator and AEA enthusiast. Like many of us, my evaluation training was very much discipline-based and skewed heavily toward quantitative approaches. Randomized control trials and statistical models were the gold standards of evidence. Conversations about ethics were usually confined to the pages of IRB applications. Methodologies were …
Greetings and welcome from the Disabilities and Underrepresented Populations TIG week. We are June Gothberg, Chair and Caitlyn Bukaty, Program Chair. This week we have a strong line up of great resources, tips, and lessons learned for engaging typically underrepresented population in evaluation efforts. You might have noticed that we changed our name from Disabilities …
DUP Week: What’s in a Name? with June Gothberg and Caitlyn Bukaty Read More »
Greetings, and welcome to a week’s worth of insights sponsored by the Design and Analysis of Experiments TIG! We are Laura Peck and Steve Bell, program evaluators with Abt Associates. When deciding how to invest in social programs, policymakers and program managers increasingly ask for evidence of effectiveness. A strong method for measuring a program’s …
Hello! I am Kathy Bolland, like many of you, a wearer of many hats. I am an administrator and faculty member in a school of social work, where my research focuses on impoverished youth at risk and on assessment in higher education. I also evaluate educational projects and social programs. I am a past AEA …
SW TIG Week: Kathy Bolland on Ethics in Evaluation and in Social Professions Read More »
Hi, I’m Jennifer V. Miller. For my entire career, I’ve been in some sort of consultative role – either internally as a human resource generalist and training manager in corporate America, or for my consulting company SkillSource. When you are a consultant your primary role is to assess, then make recommendations for improvement. It’s my …
Jennifer Miller on Building Trusting Customer-Consultant Relationships Read More »
Hello! I’m Judy Savageau, faculty, researcher, and IRB representative for the University of Massachusetts Center for Health Policy and Research. I want to bring attention to the need for us to be mindful that our stakeholder groups are often ‘subjects’ in our evaluation research. Why are there ethical concerns? Like research, evaluation involves human subjects. …
Judy Savageau on The IRB Process in Human Subject Research Read More »
