Evaluation planning

Daphne Brydon on Engaging Clients in Evaluation Planning

Hi y’all, Daphne Brydon here. I am a clinical social worker and independent evaluator. In social work, we know that a positive relationship built between the therapist and client is more important than professional training in laying the foundation for change at an individual level. I believe positive engagement is key in effective evaluation as …

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Lily Zandniapour and Nicole Vicinanza on The Social Innovation Fund Evaluation Plan Guidance Document: A Tool for Building Shared Understanding of Rigorous Impact Evaluation Designs

Greetings! We are Lily Zandniapour of the Corporation for National and Community Service (CNCS) and Nicole Vicinanza of JBS International.   We work together with our colleagues at CNCS and JBS to review and monitor the evaluation plans developed and implemented by programs participating in the CNCS Social Innovation Fund (SIF).   The SIF is one of …

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Sheila B. Robinson on Evaluation Planning and Getting in (Evaluation) Shape for Summer

Hi! I’m Sheila B. Robinson, AEA365’s Lead Curator. I’m also an educator with Greece Central School District, and the University of Rochester’s Warner School of Education. Today, I’ll share lessons learned about evaluation planning and a fabulous way to get ready for summer (learning about evaluation, of course!). Rudyard Kipling wrote, I keep six honest …

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Laura Cody on Evaluation Planning Process with Youth

My name is Laura Cody, and I am a Community Health Specialist at the Regional Center for Healthy Communities in Cambridge, MA.  We work with many substance abuse prevention coalitions helping them build on their strengths and reduce underage drinking in their communities.  I will describe a process we used with a group of youth …

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Sudharshan Seshadri on Mapping Resources for Conducting Useful Evaluations

Hello! My name is Sudharshan Seshadri and I am currently pursuing my Masters degree in Professional Studies specializing in Humanitarian Services Administration. My earlier post was a congregation of resources useful in conducting program evaluations catering to stakeholders of the project. In this post, I had planned to address the concerns of mapping the available …

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Paul Duignan on DoView and Visually Representing Outcomes

AEA365 began on January 1, 2010. Before we promoted this resource, we reached out to dedicated authors who believed in the project in order to populate the site with starter content. Those who contributed in week 1 wrote for an audience of fewer than 10. One year later we have over 1500 subscribers and are …

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Deepa Valvi on the Strategic Evaluation Planning Process

My name is Deepa Valvi, and I am the Lead Evaluator for the Kentucky Asthma Program–which is a part of the Respiratory Diseases Program. The Kentucky Asthma Program is a CDC-funded program to address asthma in Kentucky–mainly by the goals of establishing a surveillance system, reducing morbidity due to asthma, increasing self-management education on asthma …

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Internal Eval Week: Anthony Kim on Balancing Dual Roles as an Internal Evaluator

Hello, my name is Anthony Kim, and I am a doctoral candidate in Policy, Organization, Measurement, and Evaluation at U.C. Berkeley’s Graduate School of Education. Prior to Berkeley, I worked at an Education nonprofit as a program manager that had to fill a dual role as internal evaluator of my program. As might be expected, …

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Michelle Jay on Lessons Learned in Acquiring Stakeholder Feedback

My name is Michelle Jay and I am an Assistant Professor at the University of South Carolina. I am an independent evaluator and also an evaluation consultant with Evaluation, Assessment and Policy Connections (EvAP) in the School of Education at UNC-Chapel Hill. Currently I serve with Rita O’Sullivan as Directors of AEA’s Graduate Education Diversity Internship …

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DOVP Week: Mary Moriarty on Planning and Implementing Disability-based Evaluations

I’m Mary Moriarty, independent consultant and evaluator with Picker Engineering Program at Smith College. For 10 years I have specialized in evaluation of programs that serve underrepresented populations, particularly in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM). I previously directed several programs focused on increasing representation of individuals with disabilities in STEM. I now realize the …

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