Hi! I’m Maryann Durland and this week the Social Network Analysis (SNA) TIG will be posting. First SNA is frequently referred to as Network Analysis and Organizational Analysis, depending on the field of interest. These terms come out of the social sciences, particularly sociology, anthropology, economics, and other social science areas. In some cases, network …
SNA TIG Week: A Little History by Maryann Durland Read More »
Hi, I’m Jessica Byrnes, and I’m a member of the AEA marketing team. You may have noticed that AEA365 experienced an upgrade this week! Let me show you around the updated site and familiarize you with a few new features. We want our readers’ experience to be as pleasant as possible when visiting AEA365 – …
Introducing… the New AEA365! by Jessica Byrnes Read More »
Hello, I am Pia Saunders Campbell, Director of Measurement, Evaluation & Learning at the International Youth Foundation (IYF) and Communications Co-Chair of the Youth-Focused Evaluation TIG, here with my colleague Alejandra De Freitas. IYF’s belief that educated, employed, and engaged young people possess the power to solve the world’s toughest problems inherently leads to a …
I am Nou Yang from The Youth Leadership Initiative (YLI), a program of Amherst H. Wilder Foundation. YLI’s mission is to develop the next generation of multicultural leaders who have the skills and desire to contribute to making a thriving and inclusive community. YLI has been practicing Youth Participatory Evaluation (YPE) for a number of …
YFE TIG Week: Advancing Youth Equity through YPE by Nou Yang Read More »
Hello, we are Cara Karter, evaluator at After School Matters (ASM), and Julian Brown, former research and evaluation intern at ASM and current Chicago Public High School student. This summer we worked together on a mixed-methods implementation evaluation of an ASM initiative with the Chicago Police Department. This was the first time the Research & …
YFE TIG Week: Co-leading evaluations with youth by Cara Karter and Julian Brown Read More »
We are Dr. Natasha Koustova and Kimberly Bowman and we work with Girl Guides of Canada. Girl Guides represents nearly 100,000 girls and women across Canada and aims to be a catalyst for girls empowering girls. As staff, we look for opportunities to meaningfully incorporate girls and ‘girl-voice’ into the organization’s design, research and evaluation …
Hi, I’m Scott Mengebier and I work with an Evaluation team for a national foundation. For the past year, I have been leading our program evaluation in research compliance nationally, and driving data collection on a regional level for our largest project: measuring the impact of a social-emotional learning intervention on high schoolers’ academic performance …
I am Mónica Ruiz-Casares, Program Chair of the Youth Focused Evaluation TIG. I am Associate Professor in the Division of Social and Transcultural Psychiatry at McGill University and Researcher at the Sherpa University Institute in Montreal. I am also member of the International and Canadian Child Rights Partnership (ICCRP), a group of academic and research centers, non-government …
Hi, I am Sara Vaca (Independent Evaluator and Saturday’s contributor to this blog). Recently, I decided to use the opportunity that AEA365 gives us as a platform to share our thoughts, and I shared my top 10 evaluation doubts. As soon as I posted it, other doubts emerged too. Given that I received quite a …
Sharing My Evaluation Doubts (II) by Sara Vaca Read More »
We are Asma M. Ali of AA & Associates, LLC and Francis Kwakwa of the Radiological Society of North America in Chicago. We spend a great deal of our day-jobs thinking about challenges of evaluation and assessment in Quality Improvement in Continuing Education for health professionals. Continuing Education [CE] must meet constantly changing regulatory and …
