Hello aea365 friends. My name is Sharon Rodriguez and I regularly work with international colleagues from other parts of the world. One challenge that we encounter is representing diacritics in reports and presentations (and even emails – but note that the suggestions below won’t work in all email programs). You can usually get these in …
Shortcut Week: Sharon Rodriguez on Shortcuts for Inserting Diacritics Read More »
I am Corinne Poth and I want to think about shortcuts in surveys. Not so much shortcuts in creating your survey, but more shortcuts that help your respondents to respond to your survey in the shortest path possible. Towards that end (and with her blessing), I thought that I would add to the first post …
Shortcut Week: Corinne Poth on Skip Logic for Online Surveys Read More »
My name is John Paul Manning and I’m an independent data analyst, which means I spend a lot of time working on my computer and it also means that I’m always struggling with fair billing. I’m contributing a favorite tool to shortcuts week because for me it has been a faster, easier, way to do …
Shortcut Week: John Paul Manning on RescueTime for Time Tracking Read More »
My name is Ana Drake and I love macros! Most of my work involves sitting at a computer for one reason or another – doing data analyses, conducting research, or writing correspondence. Macros are basically one instruction that expands to do many things on your computer. In their simplest form, macros allow you to click …
Shortcut Week: Ana Drake on Macros and Hotkeys Read More »
I’m Sarah Mann-DeVos and I’m kicking off shortcut week. What are shortcuts? They are shorter, faster, easier ways to get something done. Our criteria for the week was that the shortcuts not only had to make something shorter, faster, or easier, but also that you also mustn’t be shortchanged on the way and that they …
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I’m Susan Kistler, the American Evaluation Association’s Executive Director, and aea365’s Saturday contributor. Today I have great news to share! Hot Tip – Evaluation 2011 conference registration is now open: Join over 2500 delegates in Anaheim, California the first week in November for what promises to be an event to remember. The theme this year …
Susan Kistler on the AEA Annual Conference Read More »
My name is Stewart Donaldson, and I am Dean, Professor, and Director of the Institute of Organizational and Program Evaluation Research at Claremont Graduate University. I am also the convener of the annual summer professional development series in evaluation and applied research methods at Claremont Graduate University. Rad resources: It’s rather difficult to think about …
Stewart Donaldson on Honoring Professor Michael Scriven’s Contributions to Evaluation Read More »
My name is Lee Kokinakis and I work for the Michigan Nutrition Network (MNN) at the Michigan Fitness Foundation (MFF). I provide curriculum and evaluation assistance to projects and work with the MNN team to help local and state partners accomplish Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program Education (SNAP-Ed) outcomes under the United States Department of Agriculture …
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I’m Susan Kistler, AEA’s Executive Director, and contributor of each Saturday’s aea365 post. Many moons ago, I taught survey design and worked as a consultant and trainer with a focus on evaluation planning and instrument development for nonprofit grantees. Today, I want to draw on that background to start an intermittent series on online surveying …
We are Mary Kane and Scott Rosas, Principal and Senior Consultants at Concept Systems, Inc. located in Ithaca, NY. Our total concept mapping years number almost 30, and our work often focuses on surfacing and incorporating the values and perspectives of diverse stakeholders in planning and evaluation. Concept mapping engages people and their opinions and …
Mary Kane and Scott Rosas on Leveraging Concept Mapping Read More »
