guiding principles

Oregon Evaluators Week: Sustaining a CREE Independent Evaluation Practice using Near-Peer Mentoring by Karyl Askew

Leave a Comment / Uncategorized / September 21, 2020 September 19, 2020

Karyl Askew, here. I am an Oregon-based independent program evaluation consultant specializing in culturally responsive and equitable evaluation (CREE). Independent evaluation consultants often experience social isolation, which can be more pronounced as an evaluator of color doing equity work. However, while I operate a sole proprietor consulting business, I rarely work alone. Near-peer mentoring has …

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Getting Ready for the Conference with the AEA Guiding Principles by Leanne Kallemeyn

Leave a Comment / Uncategorized / August 28, 2020 September 1, 2020

My name is Leanne Kallemeyn, and I am currently a member of the AEA Guiding Principles Working Group. As we get ready for the 2020 virtual AEA conference, I want to address a change that was planned prior to the COVID-19 pandemic. If you submitted a proposal, you may recall that you were asked to …

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4 Ways Members are Using the AEA Guiding Principles by Sarah Heath

Leave a Comment / Uncategorized / July 20, 2020 July 18, 2020

Hello! I’m Sarah Heath (Instructor at the University of Winnipeg) and I’m a member of the AEA Guiding Principles Working Group. We have been tasked with finding creative ways to build awareness of the 2018-updated AEA Evaluators’ Ethical Guiding Principles among AEA members. As a working group member, I’ve become fascinated by the different ways …

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A Common Conflation: Standards And Guidelines by Jeffrey Hillman

2 Comments / Uncategorized / June 14, 2020 June 14, 2020

Hello fellow evaluators! My name is Jeffrey Hillman, and I am a Ph.D. candidate in the Interdisciplinary Ph.D. in Evaluation (IDPE) program at Western Michigan University and a member of the Guiding Principles Working Group. I have had the privilege of studying the standards, guiding principles, and evaluation competencies for several years. Most recently, my …

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Making the most of the AEA Ethical Guiding Principles in your evaluation practice by Leslie Goodyear

1 Comment / Uncategorized / May 10, 2020 May 1, 2020

Hi everyone! I’m Leslie Goodyear, chair of the AEA Guiding Principles Working Group (GPWG). In my day job, I’m Principal Evaluation Director at Education Development Center (EDC), a global nonprofit that advances lasting solutions to improve education, promote health, and expand economic opportunity. I’ve been active in AEA for 25 years, serving on multiple task forces …

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AEA Guiding Principles: Maintaining Ethical Standards and Conducting Meaningful Evaluation by Xiaoxia Newton

Leave a Comment / Collaborative, Participatory and Empowerment Evaluation / April 9, 2020 March 28, 2020

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 …

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The AEA Evaluators’ Ethical Guiding Principles by Mónica Ruiz-Casares

1 Comment / Uncategorized / April 8, 2020 March 28, 2020

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 …

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BLP TIG Week: Tips for Navigating Changes in Leadership and Business Priorities as an Internal Evaluator by Erika Cooksey

Leave a Comment / Business, Leadership, and Performance / March 27, 2018 May 3, 2019

Hello, my name is Erika Cooksey. I am employed as an internal evaluator at Cincinnati Children’s. I’ve been a member of AEA since 2011, and I co-chair the Social Work TIG. A change in leadership can be a positive and stressful experience for the systems that it affects. A leader, new to an organization, brings …

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Establishing Ethical Boundaries: Experience of an Emerging Evaluator by Christina Peterson

4 Comments / Uncategorized / March 2, 2018 February 24, 2018

My name is Christina Peterson. Shortly after starting my first semester as a PhD student at the University of Tennessee, I had an opportunity to participate in an evaluation project as a data collector. It was just the type of experience I felt I needed to establish myself as an emerging evaluator in my community. …

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The Impact of AEA Membership Engagement by Kathy Newcomer

1 Comment / Uncategorized / November 5, 2017 November 4, 2017

Hello! I’m Kathy Newcomer. Serving as president of AEA this year has been an honor and privilege for many reasons. One of them is the opportunity to witness firsthand the incredible commitment and effort so many of our members exert on our behalf! AEA members serve on TIGs, task forces and working groups and work …

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