August 2012 – Page 3

Stephanie Evergreen on the Monitoring and Evaluation Coffee Break Webinar Series

Leave a Comment / International and Cross-cultural Evaluation / August 11, 2012 September 10, 2012

My name is Stephanie Evergreen and I am the eLearning Initiatives Director at the American Evaluation Association and the stand-in for Susan Kistler today. I am the host of our Coffee Break Demonstrations, 20-minute webinars designed to teach about a tool or resource of use to evaluators. Last month our Coffee Break lineup featured a …

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Wilder Research Week: Edith Gozali-Lee on Multisite Longitudinal Studies in Education

Hello, I am Edith Gozali-Lee, a research scientist at Wilder Research. I work primarily on research and evaluation projects related to education. I am currently working on a multi-site, longitudinal study of an early childhood initiative. The study includes three cohorts of school-based preschool program children in ten schools, five cohorts of community-based child care …

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Wilder Research Week: Brian Pittman on Complex Systems

2 Comments / Nonprofits and Foundations Evaluation, Systems in Evaluation / August 9, 2012 July 27, 2012

Hello, I am Brian Pittman, a Research Associate at Wilder Research. Our work involves many different topics, scopes, and stakeholders, but an increasing proportion of our projects deal with complexity. Therefore, we work to learn and use the principles and practices of complex systems in our work. This post includes a brief primer of the …

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Wilder Research Week: Dan Swanson on Data Quality

Leave a Comment / Nonprofits and Foundations Evaluation / August 8, 2012 August 8, 2012

Hi, I’m Dan Swanson, Assistant Survey Research Manager at Wilder Research. I oversee our survey center where I am responsible for implementing and maintaining quality control measures throughout the data collection process. A phrase often repeated here at Wilder is, “No matter how you analyze or write about the data, its quality cannot get any …

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Wilder Research Week: Caryn Mohr on Case Studies

Leave a Comment / Nonprofits and Foundations Evaluation, Qualitative Methods / August 6, 2012 July 27, 2012

Hello, I am Caryn Mohr, a Research Scientist at Wilder Research, a nonprofit human services research and evaluation group in St. Paul, Minnesota. Our work ranges from qualitative to quasi-experimental studies, and often involves multiple research methods. My recent work has afforded the opportunity to see the merits and challenges in conducting case study research. …

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Wilder Research Week: Paul Mattessich on Foundations and Evaluation

1 Comment / Evaluation Use, Nonprofits and Foundations Evaluation / August 5, 2012 July 27, 2012

I’m Paul Mattessich, Executive Director of Wilder Research. Our staff includes about 30 applied research professionals who study program effectiveness and community trends related to: children; education; public health; housing; homelessness; aging; social disparities; and other topics. The mission of Wilder Research is to improve the lives of individuals, families, and communities through human services …

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Susan Kistler on Evaluating Website Traffic

Leave a Comment / Integrating Technology into Evaluation / August 4, 2012 August 5, 2012

I am Susan Kistler, AEA’s Executive Director and aea365 Saturday contributor. Recently, we took a look at the traffic on AEA’s web assets – our website, aea365, TIG websites, etc. I thought that I would share a few things that we learned along the way. Lesson Learned – Visitors: Website traffic is subject to a …

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Kylie Hutchinson on Simple and Low Tech Things to Increase the Effectiveness of your Presentations

2 Comments / Data Visualization and Reporting / August 3, 2012 August 1, 2012

My name is Kylie Hutchinson. I am an independent evaluation consultant and trainer with Community Solutions Planning & Evaluation. I give regular webinars and workshops on evaluation topics for the AEA and CES and Twitter weekly at @EvaluationMaven. Have you ever felt bored sitting in a conference presentation, or frustrated by a presenter with poor delivery …

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Jane Eppard on the Importance of Reporting Evaluation Results

2 Comments / Disabilities and Underrepresented Populations, Nonprofits and Foundations Evaluation, Organizational Learning and Evaluation Capacity Building / August 2, 2012 July 30, 2012

Greetings, I am Jane Eppard, Vice-Chair of the Family Hope Foundation. We founded FHF in 2009 with a mission to invest in children with special needs through family support, engaging community experts, advocacy through collaboration, and financial assistance to provide access to therapies. In a very short amount of time we have gained community support …

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Month: August 2012