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Joelle Cook on the Bellwether Interview Methodology

Leave a Comment / Advocacy and Policy Change, Qualitative Methods / January 2, 2012

I am Joelle Cook with Organizational Research Services (ORS) in Seattle, Washington. ORS designs, implements and coaches clients in outcome-based planning and evaluation. We specialize in advocacy and policy evaluation and our advocacy-related projects often include the investigation of changes in political will. Through a demonstration session at the 2011 AEA conference, Steve Mumford and …

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Ricardo Gomez on Using Q Methodology for Evaluation

12 Comments / Qualitative Methods, Quantitative Methods: Theory and Design / January 2, 2012

Greetings. My name is Ricardo Gomez and I currently work as a Research and Evaluation Associate for the National Collegiate Inventors and Innovators Alliance. I am also a doctoral candidate in International Education at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, Center for International Education, and alumnus of the AEA-Duquesne University Graduate Diversity Internship Program. The opinions …

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Jan Losby and Anne Wetmore on whether to survey or not to survey—that is the question

3 Comments / Health Evaluation / December 20, 2011

We are Jan Losby (a CDC employee) and Anne Wetmore (an ORISE Fellow), members of the Evaluation and Program Effectiveness Team in the Division for Heart Disease and Stroke Prevention at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). Surveys can be an important part of your evaluation efforts. As evaluators we have probably all …

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Loraine Park, Carolyn Verheyen, and Eric Wat on Tips on Asset Mapping

Leave a Comment / Collaborative, Participatory and Empowerment Evaluation, Community Psychology, Needs Assessment / December 16, 2011

We are a collaborative team from three research and planning firms: Loraine Park (Harder+Company Community Research), Carolyn Verheyen (MIG), and Eric Wat (SSG). As part of a larger community needs assessment, we recently conducted asset mapping in multiple communities. Our aim was to use that process to engage residents and parents in conversations about the …

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Anna Douglas on Using Zotero for Free Reference Management

1 Comment / Graduate Student and New Evaluators / December 19, 2011

I’m Anna Douglas. I’m a doctoral candidate, working on my dissertation. I recently saw one of my officemates thumbing through stacks of printed articles, looking for one that she needed to reference back to in her writing. A few days later, my other officemate was searching through files on her computer, trying to locate an …

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Juan Paulo Ramírez on Google Refine – The tool of the year for evaluators!

Leave a Comment / Integrating Technology into Evaluation, Quantitative Methods: Theory and Design / December 19, 2011

Hello, my name is Juan Paulo Ramírez, independent consultant, sole owner of “GIS and Human Dimensions, L.L.C.” How many times have you used spreadsheets or sophisticated statistical software (i.e., SAS, SPSS) to estimate frequencies of a population and you asked yourself: is it really necessary to do this using very expensive and sophisticated software? Or, …

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Susan Kistler on Plexus Institute’s Free Developmental Evaluation Virtual Book Club

6 Comments / Evaluation Use, Theories of Evaluation / December 31, 2011

I’m Susan Kistler, the American Evaluation Association’s Executive Director, who is happily enjoying a long holiday weekend and preparing for the new year. This week I learned about a great opportunity that I wanted to share. Hot Tip – Free Developmental Evaluation Virtual Book Club: The Plexus Institute is hosting a book club reading of …

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Bloggers Series: Rick Davies on Rick on the Road

1 Comment / Independent Consulting, International and Cross-cultural Evaluation / December 28, 2011

Hi, my name is Rick Davies, I am an independent evaluation consultant, based in Cambridge, UK. I have been working with international development aid programs in Africa and Asia, in various roles since 1980. I run the Rick on the Road blog. Rad Resource – The Rick on the Road blog started in 2004, and …

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Bloggers Series: Kathleen Tinworth on expose.your.museum

2 Comments / Arts, Culture, and Museums / December 29, 2011

Hey there. It’s me, Kathleen Tinworth—program chair for AEA’s Evaluating Arts & Culture TIG and Director of Visitor Research & Program Evaluation at the Denver Museum of Nature & Science. I blog about the intersection of consumer trends and the visitor experience. Rad Resource – expose.your.museum: There’s always something interesting going on in consumer trends. …

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Bloggers Series: Susan Eliot on a Qualitative Research Blog

10 Comments / Qualitative Methods / December 30, 2011

I’m Susan Eliot, principal of Eliot & Associates, a qualitative research firm in Portland Oregon and I write a qualitative research blog. Rad Resource –The focus of my blog is applying qualitative methods in real life situations. As evaluators, most of us have taken a course or two on the “How To’s” of conducting qualitative …

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