Cheers aea365 readers. I am Carlo Amillo and I want to share resources for evaluators from around the world who evaluate development projects using impact evaluations. The following resources are for M&E practitioners in particular but useful to anyone who is a professional evaluator. Rad Resource – The International Initiative for Impact Evaluation (3ie): 3ie …
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I am Susan Kistler, AEA’s Executive Director, and the aea365 contributor for each Saturday. Today, I want to share with you items in the AEA Public eLibrary from a selection of sessions at the 2011 AEA/CDC Summer Evaluation Institute. These are handouts and slides from the 40+ workshops, pre-Institute day-long trainings, and keynotes offered this …
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Hi. My name is Chris Camillo, and I am an auditor and consultant on international child labor and education issues. As part of my auditing work, I visit rural development projects in Africa and Latin America to assess the quality of their GPRA performance data, their compliance with program requirements and their learning environments for …
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Hi. We are Celina Chao and Patricia Quinones, second-year doctoral students in the Social Research Methodology (SRM) Division in the Department of Education at UCLA. We are part of UCLA’s SRM Evaluation Group, composed of evaluation graduate students and faculty who work on a variety of education-related projects. Lesson Learned: A challenge that university-based evaluation …
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My name is Philippe Buteau and I am an analyst at my own small co-owned firm, Buteau and Lindley. Back in May, Susan Kistler briefly wrote about Google Refine on aea365 and prompted me to take a look. Since then, I have used Refine in a number of ways and thought that I would submit …
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My name is Marion O’Reilly-Stanhauer. I am an independent evaluation consultant focusing on out-of-school time (OST) programs such as after-school enrichment, tutoring, and summer success. The programs I work with are impacted by standardized testing in their states, often due to calls for additional OST support when standardized tests indicate low proficiency levels or the …
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Hello, my name is Pedro Mateu and I am a second year student in the Interdisciplinary Ph.D. in Evaluation program at Western Michigan University. During last spring I learnt how to do meta-analyses as a part of the program’s core courses. Therefore I would like to share with you some lessons learned. Hot Tip: First …
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Welcome fellow researchers! My name is Irene Marconi and I recently began using Twitter as part of my own professional learning to create a specialized listing for myself consisting of just people who tend to share items that I want to learn more about. I am sharing below my list of those that are related …
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I am Susan Kistler, AEA’s Executive Director, and this week I’m posting about two completely separate things: On the one hand, I want to tell you about the AEA conference program and on the other hand, I’m trying out curate.us. Rad Resource – Evaluation 2011 Searchable Conference Program: This highly searchable online program is a …
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My name is Zeke Fanning and I work for 1234more. I’m always on the hunt for data analysis tools that help with our clients web presence. Hot Tip – Vidi: I just discovered Vidi. It is free and creates data visualizations that are embeddable on a webpage or blog. I found it surprisingly easy to …
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