CEA Affiliate Week: CEA Speaker Series by Asma Ali and Rebecca Teasdale

Leave a Comment / Uncategorized / July 19, 2019

Welcome to the Chicagoland Evaluation Association’s (CEA) week of AEA 365. We are Asma Ali, President and Rebecca Teasdale, Treasurer of CEA. CEA begin many years ago as a forum for evaluation professionals and students in the Chicagoland area to network, exchange ideas and knowledge, and participate in professional development activities that promote excellence in …

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My Favorite Features In Powerpoint And Illustrator for Creating Visuals by Sara Vaca

Leave a Comment / Data Visualization and Reporting, Uncategorized / July 13, 2019

Hi there! I’m Sara Vaca (frequent Saturday contributor to this blog), independent consultant, and I recently started working for ImpactMapper as the Evaluation and Client Success Manager. As many of you know, since 2011, rather than English, I use Data Visualization as my second language (my first language is text 😉 ). Early on, I …

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Beyond Theory: Locating Power in Culturally Responsive Evaluation Practice by are Jaimie Haugen and Jill Anne Chouinard

Leave a Comment / Uncategorized / July 14, 2019

It is likely that you’ve heard issues of power discussed as an important consideration in evaluation contexts. But what does power actually look like in evaluation and what do we do about it? We are Jaimie Haugen and Jill Anne Chouinard, researchers and evaluators who are interested in the concept of power in Culturally Responsive …

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Evaluation: Everything Changes by Tom Grayson

1 Comment / Uncategorized / July 14, 2019

Hello Evaluators!  I’m Tom Grayson, former member of the AEA Board of Directors, retired as Director of Evaluation in Student Affairs at the University of Illinois in Champaign-Urbana. Currently, I am an evaluation practitioner, consultant and facilitator. The jazz singer and song writer, Benard Ighner, composed, “Everything must change”. The opening lyrics are, “Everything must …

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Visualizing results from an evaluative rubric, Part II by Stephanie Chasteen

Leave a Comment / Data Visualization and Reporting / July 14, 2019

I’m Stephanie Chasteen, an external evaluator on NSF-funded projects aiming to improve STEM education at the university level. This is part 2 of a 2-part series on evaluative rubrics. In yesterday’s post, I shared how I developed an analytic rubric to evaluate program structures. In today’s post, I’ll share how we produced meaningful visuals of …

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Visualizing results from an evaluative rubric, Part I by Stephanie Chasteen

Leave a Comment / Data Visualization and Reporting / July 14, 2019

I’m Stephanie Chasteen, an external evaluator on NSF-funded projects aiming to improve STEM education at the university level. This is part 1 of a 2-part series on evaluative rubrics. In today’s post I’ll talk about how we developed the rubric. Tomorrow I’ll share how we created visuals from the rubric data to inform action steps. …

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Analyzing surveys with complex sampling designs? There’s an R package for that! By Monique Farone

Leave a Comment / Quantitative Methods: Theory and Design / July 14, 2019

Hi there! I’m Monique Farone (@moniquefarone), an internal evaluator at a local health department just outside Atlanta. At the 2018 American Public Health Association annual meeting, I presented a poster that examined data from our local Youth Risk Behavior Survey (YRBS) – data that I miraculously analyzed using R. I say that because I’m new …

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Teachers Are Important Participants in Student-centered Interventions, Not Just Inputs by Bryan Hall and Danielle Fontaine

Leave a Comment / Prek-12 Educational Evaluation / July 15, 2019

Hello AEA365! We are Bryan Hall, senior director of evaluation, and Danielle Fontaine, senior manager of evaluation at BellXcel (formerly BELL, Building Educated Leaders for Life). BellXcel offers solutions for under-resourced communities to create evidence-based summer and afterschool learning programs that address the opportunity and achievement gaps. Historically, the focus of our internal program evaluation approach …

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CDC Week: Using Funding Proposals as an Evaluation Lever by Dan Kidder

Leave a Comment / Uncategorized / June 30, 2019

My name is Dan Kidder, and I’m the Monitoring and Evaluation Unit Lead in CDC’s Program Performance and Evaluation Office (PPEO). CDC is a large and decentralized organization. More than 90 divisions do our work, and more than two-thirds of CDC funding goes to support frontline work at state, local, and tribal health departments; ministries …

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CDC Week: Reflecting on our Practice: CDC’s Evaluator Self-Assessment by Sarah Gill

1 Comment / Uncategorized / June 30, 2019

My name is Sarah Gill, and I’m a behavioral scientist on the evaluation team in CDC’s Program Performance and Evaluation Office (PPEO). Our team works across the Agency to build evaluation capacity in public health programs. In addition to providing training and consultations, we create evaluation resources, like the checklists Tom mentioned in Tuesday’s post. …

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