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Susan Kistler on the Top 10 aea365 Articles of 2012

I’m Susan Kistler, the American Evaluation Association’s Executive Director and regular aea365 Saturday contributor. Last year, about this time we looked back on the top aea365 posts of 2011, a year where the most read list reflected a number of tech tools. I ended the list with “I can’t wait to see what 2012 brings!” …

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Ann Emery, James Coyle, and Kylie Hutchinson, on Top Things You DID Learn in School

Greetings! We’re Ann Emery, James Coyle, and Kylie Hutchinson. Every few weeks, James and Kylie chat about topics, trends, and tips in the field of program evaluation through the Adventures in Evaluation podcast series. James and Kylie recently invited Ann to join their discussion. We talked about Ann’s aea365 post on 10 Things You Didn’t …

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Linda Scheu and Angela Baldasare on Using Good Presentation Principles to Increase Potential Impact

Good Day! We are Linda Scheu and Angela Baldasare, evaluation and assessment professionals working in higher education, at the University of Arizona. One of the things we have learned in our combined 20 years of experience in evaluation/assessment work is in the evaluation process planning, collecting, and analyzing the data are almost equally paramount. However, …

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Bonnie Stabile on Publishing Beyond the Evaluation Community

Hi – I’m Bonnie Stabile and I am Deputy Editor of the World Medical & Health Policy Journal. As an editor, I’d like to encourage evaluation practitioners and scholars to reach out beyond the evaluation community to share their findings and insights. Particularly in the areas of Health and Health Policy, I believe evaluators have much to …

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Sean Alan Levin on Asana for Free Project Management and To Do Lists

I am Sean Alan Levin and today I am sharing information about Asana because I have found it incredibly useful in my work. Rad Resource – Asana: Asana is a project management tool that is free for teams of up to 30 people. I am currently using it both with a project team of 8 …

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Susan Kistler on Welcoming Sheila Robinson and Contributing to aea365

I am Susan Kistler, the American Evaluation Association’s Executive Director and aea365’s regular Saturday contributor. So, what I am doing here on this fine Monday? On Saturday, I had to share the Evaluation 2013 Call for Proposals, but I had another piece of news to spread the word about as well. Sheila B. Robinson will …

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Sarah Rand on Using Visual.ly’s Marketplace Service for Infographics

My name is Sarah Rand and I am an Associate Project Director for Research and Evaluation at the Center for Elementary Mathematics and Science Education at the University of Chicago. Our team is currently working on a few efforts to share research and evaluation findings in useful and creative ways (see my November aea365 post …

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Susan Kistler on the Evaluation 2013 AEA Annual Conference Call for Proposals

My name is Susan Kistler and I am the Executive Director for the American Evaluation Association. I contribute each Saturday’s post to aea365. One of my favorite components of my work with AEA is the opportunity to read the proposals for the annual conference as they are submitted. It is a bit like being the …

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Enid Schmidt on Three Free Qualitative Methods Resources to Elevate Your Inquiry

Friends and colleagues, I am Enid Schmidt and I have been conducting qualitative and quantitative research for over twenty years both as a consultant and as an internal evaluator. Ironically, I find that there are relatively few qualitative online resources, at least when compared to the myriad quantitative offerings. Here, I share three of my …

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Stafford Hood on the 2013 CREA Conference: Repositioning Culture in Evaluation and Assessment

Welcome aea365 colleagues. I am Stafford Hood, Director of the Center for Culturally Responsive Evaluation and Assessment (CREA) at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. The overall goal of CREA is to encourage evaluation research and practice that is not only culturally sensitive but also culturally responsive. Hot Tip – Attend the 2013 CREA Conference: …

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