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EPE Week: Valerie Williams on Evaluating Environmental Education Programs

My name is Valerie Williams and I am a Program Evaluator at the University Corporation for Atmospheric Research (UCAR). One of the programs I work with is Global Learning and Observations to Benefit the Environment (GLOBE), a worldwide, K-12 environmental science and education program. Many environmental education programs struggle with the question of whether environmental …

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EPE Week: Anna Williams on The False Dichotomy Between “Environmental” and “Social”

4 Comments / Environmental Program Evaluation / April 17, 2012 April 15, 2012

Hi. I am Anna Williams, a Senior Associate at Ross & Associates Environmental Consulting in Seattle, Washington. I have devoted the past 20 years to solving complex environmental-social issues. I use the words “environmental-social” here intentionally: Fundamentally both “environmental” and “social” challenges – and their solutions – are the same. An independent evaluation I conducted …

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EPE Week: Tina Phillips on Developing Validated Scales

Leave a Comment / Environmental Program Evaluation, Quantitative Methods: Theory and Design / April 16, 2012 April 15, 2012

Hello! My name is Tina Phillips and I am the evaluation program manager at the Cornell Lab of Ornithology. I lead an NSF-funded project called DEVISE (Developing, Validating and Implementing Situated Evaluations), which is aimed at providing practitioners and evaluators with tools to assess individual learning outcomes from citizen science, or public participation in scientific …

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EPE Week: Yvonne Watson on Mission Possible: Evaluation Capacity Building at EPA

Leave a Comment / Environmental Program Evaluation, Evaluation Managers and Supervisors, Organizational Learning and Evaluation Capacity Building / April 15, 2012 April 15, 2012

Hi everyone! I’m Yvonne M. Watson, a Program Analyst in the United States Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA’s) Evaluation Support Division (ESD). As chair of the American Evaluation Association’s Environmental Program Evaluation Topical Interest Group, I invite you to learn more about evaluation and environmental issues this week. Evaluation units across the federal government vary in …

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Susan Kistler on AEA Setting Environmental Issues as a Priority and the Environmental Evaluators Network Forum Unconference

Leave a Comment / Uncategorized / April 14, 2012 April 17, 2012

I am Susan Kistler, the American Evaluation Association’s Executive Director and aea365 regular Saturday contributor. Did you know that April 22 is Earth Day and that all this week we’ll be celebrating Earth Week on aea365 with our colleagues in the Environmental Program Evaluation Topical Interest Group? What is particular exciting is that this year …

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NA Week: Ryan Watkins on Overcoming Five Obstacles to a Successful Needs Assessment

Leave a Comment / Needs Assessment / April 12, 2012 April 6, 2012

I’m Ryan Watkins and I am an associate professor at George Washington University. Among other things, I maintain the needs assessment website www.gapsinresults.com – which collects many needs assessment resources for you. I’m writing today about five needs assessment obstacles and tips to overcome them. Lessons Learned: 1st Obstacle: “We need …” Unfortunately, needs assessment …

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Susan Kistler on Tools to Help in Your Evaluation Job Search

1 Comment / Uncategorized / April 7, 2012 April 7, 2012

I’m Susan Kistler and I am the American Evaluation Association’s Executive Director and aea365’s regular Saturday contributor. Spring has finally sprung in North American – I’m once again awakened by the birds in the morning and shuttling around between crew, track, and softball – the spring sports for my small family. For many, spring will …

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Frank Meintjies on How Evaluation and Strategic Planning Go Together

3 Comments / Evaluation Managers and Supervisors / March 29, 2012 March 7, 2012

My name is Frank Meintjies and I work as a consultant in South Africa. While most of my evaluation work has related to poverty reduction initiatives, I have also undertaken evaluation work on HIV and AIDS programmes. Evaluation and strategic planning are so closely linked. Some organisations want to dive in to strategic planning without doing a …

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Priya Small on “What I Wish I Had Known in My Beginner Evaluator Days”

4 Comments / Graduate Student and New Evaluators, Independent Consulting / March 28, 2012 March 2, 2012

I am Priya Small, an independent public health evaluation consultant, and today I will talk about lessons I have learned from riding the steep learning curve. Many times we may tend to devalue our early learning experiences as evaluators. But as this is a time of rapid growth, sharing these lessons is profitable. Lesson Learned: …

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