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GSNE Week: Kate Svensson and Barbara Szijarto on Evaluating Knowledge Mobilization

Hello! We’re Barbara Szijarto and Kate Svensson, graduate students at the University of Ottawa. We’re involved in a Government of Canada funded knowledge mobilization project called ‘Engagement: Mobilizing Community Involvement’ through the Centre for Research in Educational and Community Services (CRECS). Our role is to aid in the evaluation of the initiative. Evaluating a knowledge …

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GSNE Week: Kristin Woods on Gaining Practical Experience as a New Evaluator

Leave a Comment / Graduate Student and New Evaluators, Teaching of Evaluation / August 4, 2013 August 5, 2013

I am Kristin Woods, a co-chair for the Graduate Student and New Evaluators Topical Interest Group (GSNE TIG); I am a PhD student at Oklahoma State University in the Research, Evaluation, Measurement, and Statistics program and a faculty member at Southwestern Oklahoma State University. As a graduate student, I took an applied program evaluation course …

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LAWG Week: Matthew Von Hendy on How Evaluators Find and Use Research

Leave a Comment / Integrating Technology into Evaluation / August 2, 2013 August 2, 2013

Hello! My name is Matthew Von Hendy, I am a professional research librarian and recently started my own business, Green Heron Information Services, a small research consulting company that provides information services to evaluators and other clients. For the past three months, I have been conducting informational interviews with professional evaluators to understand how they …

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LAWG Week: Patricia Moore Shaffer on STEM Evaluation in Informal Settings

1 Comment / Prek-12 Educational Evaluation, STEM Education and Training, Youth Focused Evaluation / August 1, 2013 August 1, 2013

My name is Patricia Moore Shaffer. I am the Evaluation Manager for the NASA Office of Education in Washington, DC, and enjoy networking with colleagues through the Washington Evaluators and the Federal Evaluator groups. Informal learning experiences, such as summer and after-school programs or museum exhibitions, present a prime venue for fostering youth interest in …

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LAWG Week: Brad Keller on Evaluating with Non Evaluators

2 Comments / Organizational Learning and Evaluation Capacity Building, Prek-12 Educational Evaluation / July 31, 2013 July 31, 2013

Welcome to the Evaluation 2013 Conference Local Arrangements Working Group (LAWG) week on aea365. My name is Brad Keller, and I work at Westat, an employee-owned research organization in Rockville, MD. For several years, I’ve worked on a contract with the U.S. Department of Education (ED), to help them obtain and analyze performance data from …

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LAWG Week: Valerie Caracelli on AEA’s Conference Theme

Leave a Comment / Evaluation Managers and Supervisors, Evaluation Policy, Government Evaluation / July 30, 2013 July 30, 2013

This post comes to you from Valerie Caracelli, Senior Social Science Analyst at the U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO). I’m serving with David Bernstein as co-chair of the Local Arrangements Working Group (LAWG) for the 2013 American Evaluation Association Conference in Washington, D.C. October 14-19. Lessons Learned—Do federal managers use performance information? The conference theme, …

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LAWG Week: Andy Blum on Improving Evaluation at the United States Institute of Peace

1 Comment / Evaluation Managers and Supervisors, Evaluation Policy, Government Evaluation, Organizational Learning and Evaluation Capacity Building / July 29, 2013 July 29, 2013

I am Andy Blum, Vice President for Program Management and Evaluation at the U.S. Institute of Peace (USIP), an independent organization that helps communities around the world, prevent, manage or recover from violent conflict. I recently spoke at a brown bag for the Washington Evaluators about the process of improving my organization’s learning and evaluation processes …

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LAWG Week: David Bernstein on the Value of Early Registration for the 2013 AEA Conferences

2 Comments / Uncategorized / July 28, 2013 July 28, 2013

I am David J. Bernstein, a Senior Study Director with Westat, an employee-owned research and evaluation company. Val Caracelli and I are the Local Arrangements Working Group (LAWG) Co-Chairs for the 2013 AEA Conference in Washington, DC from October 14-19. The LAWG is mobilizing local expertise and resources to enhance the annual conference and facilitate …

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Susan Kistler on 4 Ways to Make the Most of Evaluation 2013 – Even if you cannot attend

1 Comment / Uncategorized / July 20, 2013 July 20, 2013

Good day! I am Susan Kistler, the Evaluation 2013 conference program coordinator and American Evaluation Association Executive Director Emeritus. Today, I’m writing about 4 ways to make the most of the conference even if you cannot attend in person. (Share Clip) Hot Tip #1 – Leverage the Evaluation 2013 Online Conference Program to Build Your …

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p2i: Stephanie Evergreen on David Fetterman’s Fab Five Reboot

2 Comments / Collaborative, Participatory and Empowerment Evaluation, Data Visualization and Reporting / July 13, 2013 January 16, 2016

Hey all, I’m Stephanie Evergreen and I run AEA’s Potent Presentations Initiative and eLearning Initiatives. In a marriage of those two programs, we launched a new project called the Fab Five Reboot. I took five slides each from five of our best eStudy webinar presenters and revised them to better connect the content to a …

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