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2-for-1 Week: Connie Viamonte onGet Connected! Embracing Technology in Evaluation

Leave a Comment / Uncategorized / October 18, 2015 October 17, 2015

My name is Connie Viamonte and I am a Research and Evaluation Associate at Q-Q Research Consultants based out of Miami, Florida. Today I want to share some of our experiences utilizing new technologies. We’ve found that when we’re unafraid to try new things, technology is a valuable tool in the evaluation world. Most recently, …

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Best of aea365 week: Theresa Murphrey on Jing

Leave a Comment / Teaching of Evaluation / February 6, 2014 February 1, 2014

My name is Theresa Murphrey and I am on the faculty at Texas A&M University. I teach both traditional classroom based student as well as distance-based learners from around the world. I have been working with a new tool that I have found to be extremely useful in facilitating teaching and learning. 2014 Update: I have now used …

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Kerry Bruce on Taking Your Data Collection to the Field with Mobile Phone Technology

Leave a Comment / Integrating Technology into Evaluation / July 18, 2013 July 27, 2013

Hello, I am Kerry Bruce, Director of Results and Measurement at Pact and I’m currently based in Madagascar and support Pact programs in Africa, Asia and Eastern Europe. In 2012 we started to roll out the use of mobile technology in our programs including evaluation. This third post in the series on how to get started with mobile phone technology …

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Kerry Bruce on Choosing a Mobile Technology Platform for Your Evaluation

1 Comment / Integrating Technology into Evaluation / May 23, 2013 May 23, 2013

Hello, I am Kerry Bruce, the Director of Results and Measurement at Pact. I’m currently based in Madagascar and support Pact programs in Africa, Asia and Eastern Europe. I am part of Pact’s central technical team that provides monitoring and evaluation support to more than 20 country offices and more than 70 projects around the world. In 2012 we …

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Michelle Landry and Judy Savageau on No Need to Reinvent the Wheel: Project Management Tools for Your Evaluation Projects

1 Comment / Uncategorized / April 18, 2013 April 18, 2013

Hello! We’re Michelle Landry and Judy Savageau from the University of Massachusetts Medical School’s Center for Health Policy and Research. As Sean Allen Levin suggested in a recent aea365 post, organizing an evaluation project or multiple projects can be daunting. The details of timelines, responsibilities, and deliverables can easily be lost if they are only …

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Linda Cabral and Laura Sefton on Using Voice Recognition Software for Transcription

6 Comments / Health Evaluation, Qualitative Methods / March 27, 2013 March 27, 2013

Hello, we are Linda Cabral and Laura Sefton from the Center for Health Policy and Research at UMass Medical School. We often collect qualitative data from interviews and focus groups. One challenge we frequently face is how to quickly and efficiently transcribe audio data. We have experimented using voice recognition software (VRS), and we’d like …

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Kerry Bruce on Getting Started with Mobile Phones

5 Comments / Integrating Technology into Evaluation, Uncategorized / March 26, 2013 March 26, 2013

Hi, I am Kerry Bruce, Director of Results and Measurement at Pact. I am part of Pact’s central technical team that provides monitoring and evaluation support to more than 20 country offices and more than 70 projects around the world. In 2012 we started to roll out the use of mobile technology in our programs. …

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Tarek Azzam on Using Crowdsourcing in Evaluation Practice

1 Comment / Integrating Technology into Evaluation / March 4, 2013 March 4, 2013

I am Tarek Azzam, assistant professor at Claremont Graduate University and associate director of the Claremont Evaluation Center. Today I want to talk about crowdsourcing and how it can potentially be used in evaluation practice. Generally speaking, crowdsourcing is the process of using the power of the many individuals (i.e. the crowd) to accomplish specific …

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LGBT TIG Week: David Fetterman on LGBT-related Evaluation, Medical Education, Civil Rights, and the Press

2 Comments / Collaborative, Participatory and Empowerment Evaluation, Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgender Issues / February 21, 2013 February 21, 2013

My name is David Fetterman. I’m President & CEO of Fetterman & Associates, an international evaluation consulting firm (with 25 years experience at Stanford University) and past-president of the American Evaluation Association (AEA). I am probably best known for empowerment evaluation work (helping people learn how to evaluate their own programs). For examples see our …

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A. Rae Clementz on Evaluation Tech Resources

Leave a Comment / Distance Education and Other Educational Technologies, Integrating Technology into Evaluation / October 5, 2012 October 6, 2012

Hi. My name is A. Rae Clementz and in addition to being the co-chair of the Graduate Student and New Evaluator TIG, I am also a techie. I believe technology is of value when it helps us accomplish our goals in ways that are better, easier, and/or cheaper. I have evaluated several educational technology integration …

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