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Nicole Lewis on Evaluation Apprenticeships – Real Life Evaluation Experience for Students and Evaluation Capacity Building for Community Groups

Leave a Comment / Graduate Student and New Evaluators, Teaching of Evaluation / September 23, 2011 September 21, 2011

Greetings, I am Nicole Lewis, an Assistant Professor in the College of Education at the University of Kentucky. I teach program evaluation courses and serve as the evaluator for various grant-funded initiatives. One of the challenges of teaching program evaluation courses is creating meaningful opportunities for students to apply what they learn in the classroom …

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Penny Black on Comparing Prezi and PowerPoint

My name is Penny Black and I am a Public Health Program Evaluator at the University of Wisconsin’s Population Health Institute. As an evaluator, I am often called upon to present or facilitate discussions of evaluation results. Rad Resource – Prezi: For years, the presentation tool standard has been Microsoft PowerPoint. I have recently begun …

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Tessie Catsambas on How to Manage Competing Agendas in Evaluations Without Getting Scorched in the Process!

Leave a Comment / Collaborative, Participatory and Empowerment Evaluation, Government Evaluation / September 18, 2011 September 10, 2011

Greetings from Maryland! I am Tessie Catsambas of EnCompass LLC, an evaluation, leadership, and organizational development organization. How easy it is to get lost in a client’s maze of politics, anxiety, stress, and complexities! And how easy it is to step on toes you do not even know were there! This post discusses strategies for …

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Susan Kistler on Offbeat Southern California for Those at Evaluation 2011

Leave a Comment / Uncategorized / September 17, 2011 September 16, 2011

My name is Susan Kistler. I am the American Evaluation Association’s Executive Director and contributor of each Saturday’s aea365 post. I grew up on an island, spent months in a car touring Mexico, lived in a nurse’s dormitory while teaching statistics in Hong Kong, and have visited what certainly must be the most unique sculpture …

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GOV TIG Week: Rakesh Mohan and Bryon Welch on Evaluation of Large IT Systems

Leave a Comment / Government Evaluation, Research, Technology and Development Evaluation / September 16, 2011 September 1, 2011

Greetings from beautiful Boise! We are Rakesh Mohan and Bryon Welch from the Idaho legislature’s Office of Performance Evaluations. Last February, the Idaho legislature asked us to evaluate the state’s new system for processing Medicaid claims. Legislators had received many constituent complaints that claims from Medicaid providers were being denied, delayed, or inaccurately processed. Legislators …

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GOV TIG Week: Ariana Brooks on When Evaluation Cannot Solve Management Issues

1 Comment / Government Evaluation, Human Services Evaluation / September 15, 2011 September 1, 2011

My name is Ariana Brooks and I am the Director of Evaluation, Research and Planning for HeartShare Human Services. Lesson Learned: When I started as an internal evaluator my supervisor, Stan Capela, stressed to me one main point: evaluation does not solve management problems. My initial reaction was it made sense and remember similar issues …

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GOV TIG Week: Susan Fojas on Using Regular Stakeholder Forums to Facilitate Evaluation

1 Comment / Collaborative, Participatory and Empowerment Evaluation, Government Evaluation, Human Services Evaluation / September 14, 2011 September 1, 2011

My name is Susan Fojas. As the Associate Commissioner for Performance Measurement, Monitoring, and Improvement at New York City’s Administration for Children’s Services (ACS), my goal is to improve the quality of services and outcomes achieved for children in foster care through evaluation and monitoring. Hot Tip: A valuable part of the evaluation process is …

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GOV TIG Week: Caroline DeWitt on Valuing Stakeholders in the Evaluation Process

1 Comment / Collaborative, Participatory and Empowerment Evaluation, Government Evaluation, Human Services Evaluation / September 13, 2011 September 9, 2011

My name is Caroline DeWitt. I am a senior evaluator with Human Resources and Skill Development in Ottawa, Canada, and a member of the AEA Government Evaluation TIG. Our department is responsible for several evaluations ranging from labour market outcomes to grant and contributions programs delivered through third parties. An area of my responsibility was …

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GOV TIG Week: Nicole Vicinanza on Using Checklists to Review Evaluations for Compliance with Federal Requirements

Leave a Comment / Government Evaluation / September 12, 2011 September 1, 2011

Hi, my name is Nicole Vicinanza. I am a member of the Government Evaluation TIG and a Senior Research Associate with JBS International. In my work with JBS I conduct and review evaluations, and provide technical assistance in evaluation for federally funded programs. Many of these have federal regulations or guidance regarding evaluation with which …

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GOV TIG Week: Stan Capela on Corporate Compliance and its Relationship to Programs Evaluation

Leave a Comment / Costs, Effectiveness, Benefits and Economics, Government Evaluation / September 11, 2011 September 1, 2011

My name is Stan Capela. I am the Corporate Compliance Officer for HeartShare Human Services, as well as the current chair of the American Evaluation Association’s Government Topical Interest Group (GOV TIG). The purpose of this AEA365 is to talk about corporate compliance and its relationship to program evaluation. Also it is an opportunity to …

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