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Nonprofits and Foundations Evaluation TIG Week: Using Metaphors to Communicate Impact in the Social Sector by Valerie A. Futch Ehrlich

Leave a Comment / Nonprofits and Foundations Evaluation / March 25, 2023

Hello! I am Valerie Ehrlich, Director of Societal Impact’s evaluation team at the Center for Creative Leadership. We work to demonstrate impact and learn about leadership through social sector leadership development program evaluation. Metaphors are a functional part of language that help us “carry meaning across from one thing to another.” This can be especially …

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Jeanne Hubelbank on Using Metaphors in Evaluation

1 Comment / Uncategorized / August 30, 2012

Hello, my name is Jeanne Hubelbank. I am an independent evaluation consultant.  Most of my work is in higher education where, most recently, I help faculty evaluate their classes, develop proposals, and evaluate professional development programs offered to public school teachers. In my practice I find that many clients think of evaluation as pre and …

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Kathleen Norris on Using Simile and Metaphor to Engage in Evaluation

3 Comments / Arts, Culture, and Museums / July 13, 2010

My name is Kathleen Norris and I am an Assistant Professor and Program Coordinator within the doctoral program in Learning, Leadership, and Community at Plymouth State University. An arts organization I work with was stuck when it came to program evaluation. They wanted it, knew they should have it, but didn’t know how to begin. …

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Graduate Students & New Evaluators TIG Week: Story Telling is a (Cognitive) Science by Briana Thompson Ford

Leave a Comment / Graduate Student and New Evaluators / January 27, 2024

Hey y’all! I’m Briana Ford, MPH, GSNE TIG Co-Chair, and a public health researcher and data analyst working out of my hometown, Columbia, SC. I joined AEA to learn about evaluation methods and enrich my quantitative methods with wisdom from the field. I feel responsible for making data accessible and relevant for program advocacy. My education and experience are in public health, policy, healthcare research, and cognitive science, which is the topic of this blog.

Arts, Culture, and Museums TIG Week: De-Weaponizing Evaluation in a Public School District Arts Initiative by Sister IAsia Thomas and Rodney Hopson

Leave a Comment / Arts, Culture, and Museums / February 4, 2024

Sister IAsia Thomas is an equity practitioner, arts administrator, director for Children’s Windows to Africa, and is a multi-disciplinary artist whose creative work is guided by Dr. Asa Hilliard’s precepts on Being an African Teacher and Fu-Kiau’s Kindezi: The Kongo Art of Babysitting. Thomas served as Pittsburgh Public Schools from 2014 – 2024 as project …

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Arts, Culture, and Museums TIG Week: Trees of Knowledge & Trees of Life: Modernist Discourses of Art and Evaluation by Vidhya Shanker

Leave a Comment / Arts, Culture, and Museums / February 8, 2024

Greetings from Vidhya Shanker, convener of The May 13 Group. Art history taught me to ask why makers choose some forms and not others. In his video echoing the idea that Nicky Bowman, Jara Dean-Coffey, and myself have shared—to use a forest ecosystem instead of a single tree as a metaphor for the knowledge economy …

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A Systematic Approach to Addressing Data Management by Kavita Mittapalli

Leave a Comment / Uncategorized / December 4, 2023

Hello! I am Kavita Mittapalli, Ph.D. I own a K-16 research and evaluation firm, MN Associates, Inc. (MNA) just outside Washington DC metropolitan area. I founded MNA in 2004 as a graduate student at George Mason University. I have a Ph.D. in Research Design and Methodology in Education. We are a team of five evaluators and an administrative staff with a combined 65 years of experience conducting a wide variety of social science and STEM education research and evaluation projects across the country.

Transformational Eval Week: How Can Problem Questioning be Useful in Decolonized Evaluation Practice? by Matodzi M Amisi

Leave a Comment / Uncategorized / December 9, 2023

My name is Matodzi M Amisi and I am a research associate with CLEAR-AA. I have a keen interest in evaluation and evidence use within the violence prevention sector. Since 2016, I have actively participated in the Violence Prevention Forum, which aims to foster collaboration between the government, academia, and civil society in generating evidence …

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Decolonization in Evaluation Week: Becoming an Evaluation Accomplice by Using Critical Indigenous Theories By Christopher Hall

Leave a Comment / Uncategorized / October 2, 2023

Greetings! I am Christopher Hall, MSW, PhD, Assistant Professor of Human Services Administration and Delivery at the University of North Georgia. In 1999, I was introduced to intersectionality and critical theory when I attended my first statewide conference and a workshop on the topic. Since then, I have developed my work around various methods of …

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Environmental Program Evaluation TIG Week: Putting Assets-based Approaches into Action in Environmental Education Evaluation by Melanie Giangreco, Megan Ennes, and Rupu Gupta

Leave a Comment / Environmental Program Evaluation / April 10, 2023

Happy Earth Week! We are Dr. Megan Ennes, Assistant Curator of Museum Education at the Florida Museum of Natural History and head of the Museum Education Research Group (MERG); Melanie Giangreco, evaluator, MERG team member, and graduate student at the University of Florida; and Dr. Rupu Gupta, Owner of Rupu Gupta Consulting and Program Chair …

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