Hello! We are Natalie Wilkins and Courtney Barnard, and we are members of the Community Psychology TIG leadership team. Community and stakeholder engagement is a core principle of both evaluation and community psychology. As evaluators and community psychologists, it is not surprising that we are very interested in learning about how stakeholder engagement strengthens our …
Hi, my name is Courtney Barnard and I am a social worker at a children’s health care system in north Texas. I spend half my time out in the community coordinating a coalition and the other half evaluating seven other community-based coalitions and programs. You can use evaluation to help plan for the sustained impact …
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I’m Norma Martinez-Rubin, an independent evaluation consultant with a practice focused on evaluating disease prevention and health promotion projects. Small-sized independent evaluation consultancies can offer clients the accessibility and nimbleness absent in larger organizations mired in their own bureaucracies. Our multiple roles as Chief Executive Officer, Chief Operations Officer, Chief Informational Officer, and Chief Creative …
We are Hilary Loeb and Kelly Bay of the Research and Evaluation Department at the College Success Foundation. Many of our scholarship and support programs host events in which we collect data from students and educators. As internal evaluators, we often rely on colleagues to collect and enter survey data from these groups. The results …
I’m Ryan Watkins and I am an associate professor at George Washington University. Among other things, I maintain the needs assessment resource website Gap In Results. My topic today is how I remain current with research and practice in the many fields associated with needs assessment. Hot Tips: Start a Virtual Book Club. Book clubs help me …
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I’m Susan Kistler, the American Evaluation Association’s Executive Director. Once each year I write explicitly to those of you who are not AEA members in hopes of encouraging you to join the association. Hot Tip – Join AEA: Membership in AEA is only $80 per year, $60 if your primary membership is with the Canadian …
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Our names are Wendy Viola, Lindsey Patterson, Mary Gray, and Ashley Boal and we are doctoral students in the Applied Social and Community Psychology program at Portland State University. This winter, we took a course in Program Evaluation from Dr. Katherine McDonald. We’d like to share three aspects of the seminar that we felt made …
Hi! I’m Brian Yates, Professor in the Department of Psychology, and Director of the Program Evaluation Research Laboratory (PERL), at American University in Washington, DC. I’ve also been the AEA Treasurer for the past 3 years, and am looking forward to serving for 3 more. I’ve included cost as well as outcome measures in my …
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