I’m Jennifer Lawlor, volunteer promotions coordinator for the annual Systems in Evaluation (Un)Conference. The AEA Systems in Evaluation TIG invites evaluators around the world to participate in this collaborative learning event on June 21, 2016. This year’s (Un)Conference theme will align with AEA’s annual conference theme, Evaluation + Design. Unlike a typical conference, an unconference …
Hello! I’m Kylie Hutchinson (a.k.a. @EvaluationMaven), independent evaluation consultant with Community Solutions Planning & Evaluation and volunteer member of the 2016 Systems in Evaluation (Un)Conference coordinating committee. The day I completed my first real system map felt like a real accomplishment. A system map visually depicts the various elements present in a given system and …
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I’m Srik Gopal and I co-lead the Strategic Learning and Evaluation practice at FSG, a social impact consulting firm. We engage with a variety of clients – foundations, nonprofits, and companies – in designing and implementing evaluations with a systems lens. In this post, I talk about using system mapping as a tool to support …
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I’m Brandon Coffee-Borden, an Associate at Community Science and Program Co-chair for the Systems in Evaluation TIG. In this post, I will discuss the use of social network analysis (SNA) as a way to describe and analyze systems. SNA is an approach to understanding structures and connections through the use of network theory. Networks are …
Hi! My name is Jan Noga and I am the owner of Pathfinder Evaluation and Consulting in Cincinnati, Ohio. I’m also a long-time member of the Systems TIG and user of systems thinking in my evaluation practice. A systems perspective for evaluation provides incredible insight into the “how” and “why” of program outcomes, generating rich …
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Hi! I’m Sheila B Robinson, aea365’s Lead Curator and sometimes Saturday contributor. I often think about which great resources to share and highlight each time I compose a post and it’s been quite a while now since I’ve shared EvalTalk. What does this have to do with 15,000 unread emails? Sounds pretty scary, right? I’ll tell …
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Hi! I’m Sarah Cohn, Association Manager for the Visitor Studies Association (VSA). VSA and I are a part of the Building Informal Science Education project (BISE). In this post, I’ll share information about VSA and how the Association supported the BISE project. Lessons Learned: VSA served as a platform for the BISE project to engage with …
Hello! I am Rebecca Teasdale, a doctoral student in Educational Psychology specializing in evaluation methodology at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. I’m also a librarian and have served as an administrator and science librarian in public libraries. My current work focuses on the evaluation of interest-driven learning related to science, technology, engineering and math …
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Hi! This is Amy Grack Nelson, Evaluation and Research Manager, and Zdanna King, Assistant Evaluation and Research Manager, from the Science Museum of Minnesota. If you are like us, you may have shared an evaluation report with other evaluators on websites such as AEA’s eLibrary or informalscience.org. Even though opportunities to share reports online are …
Hello! I am Carey Tisdal, Director of Tisdal Consulting in St. Louis, Missouri. I work with people who develop informal learning experiences for museum exhibitions, museum programs, documentary films, and media-based projects. Many of my projects include websites as one element of a learning system. I used the Building Informal Science Education (BISE) project as …
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