Greetings! I’m Beverly Serrell, museum exhibition consultant, evaluator, and developer with Serrell & Associates in Chicago, Illinois. As a practitioner, I am very interested in finding helpful information to improve my practice in the planning, development, and assessment of exhibits. When the Building Informal Science Education (BISE) project invited me to look at their database …
Hi! I’m Amy Grack Nelson, Evaluation & Research Manager at the Science Museum of Minnesota. I’m part of a really cool National Science Foundation-funded project called Building Informal Science Education, or as we like to refer to it – BISE. The BISE project is a collaboration between the University of Pittsburgh, the Science Museum of …
Happy Saturday! I’m Liz Zadnik, Outreach Coordinator here at aea365. You may also recall I work in the anti-sexual violence movement at a state coalition. This time of year is incredibly important and busy for folks in the movement, as April is Sexual Assault Awareness Month (SAAM). Activists and communities have been commemorating and …
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I’m Chris Weiss, president of the New York City chapter of the American Association for Public Opinion Research (NYAAPOR). Our organization brings together a wide variety of evaluators and other research professionals who are engaged in the methods, applications, analysis and findings from public opinion research. We host a slate of programmatic workshops and panel …
An MBA, three nurses and a doctor at UMass Medical School’s Center for Health Policy and Research (CHPR) – Office of Health Care Innovation and Quality are back again. In the evaluation world, we often use QI methods to improve the processes by which we conduct our work, such as improving systems for file management, which we discuss …
Hi, we’re Tosca Bruno-van Vijfeijken (Director of the Syracuse University Transnational NGO Initiative) and Gabrielle Watson (independent evaluator). We engaged a group of practitioners at the 2015 AEA conference to talk about organizational change in International Non-Governmental Organizations (INGOs), and explore a hunch that Developmental Evaluation could help organizations manage change. Several large INGOs are …
Hi! My name is Katie Paschall and I am a doctoral candidate in Family Studies and Human Development at the University of Arizona. The AEA365 blog is a great space to learn about relevant statistical tools, so I wanted to weigh on in the utility of cluster analysis for evaluation research. Cluster analyses help you …
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Hello again! My name is Jan Noga here with more tips and lessons learned to help you in evaluating programs serving young children. Today’s post will focus on implementing and facilitating evaluative activities. Hot Tip: Using pictures, colored discs, shapes, stickers, or other concrete ways to express a response can be a very useful way …
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Hi! My name is Jan Noga and I am the owner of Pathfinder Evaluation and Consulting, in Cincinnati, Ohio. I’m a developmental and counseling psychologist with a specialization in early and middle childhood. I’ve spent a lot of time in preschools – as a teacher, researcher, observer, and evaluator. I learned from some amazing advisors …
Jan Noga on Surveying Young Children Part One: Planning and preparation are key! Read More »
Hello loyal readers! I’m Sheila B Robinson, aea365’s Lead Curator and sometimes Saturday contributor with some last minute tips for your Evaluation 2016 conference proposals! Hot Tip: Take the time to read through the main conference proposal page. It contains a wealth of information AND multiple links to additional information and key resources (such as descriptions …
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