My name is LaMarcus Bolton, and I am the American Evaluation Association’s Technology Director, as well as a doctoral student in Industrial-Organization Psychology. The majority of us use computers and the Internet on a regular basis for our work and personal lives. However, with the dependence on such technologies comes great risks to our data. …
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Cheers aea365 readers! My name is Alex da Silva from Brazil. While I may be able to undertake analyses in SAS, I find myself turning more frequently to Microsoft Excel because so many people can then use it. If I set up something in Excel I can be more confident that my collaborators are going …
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My name is Deshawn Smith and I am a student and novice evaluator. I’ve been keeping a crib sheet for the past year with acronyms that I came across that were used by evaluators. Lessons Learned: There is a lot of insider language related to evaluation and used by AEA. Here is a starter list …
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I’m Susan Kistler, the American Evaluation Association’s Executive Director. Today, I thought I’d write about a few resources available if you are developing evaluation contracts. Rad Resource: James Bell offered a session at Evaluation 2010 on Contracting for Evaluation Products and Services. He offered advice in five areas: creating a feasible, agreed-upon concept plan; developing …
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My name is Susan Kistler and I am the American Evaluation Association’s Executive Director. Our Institute partners at the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) were kind enough to release this week preparedness guidelines for the Zombie Apocalypse, including: Identify the types of emergencies that are possible in your area. Besides a zombie apocalypse, this may …
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This is Vidhya Shanker, a doctoral student at the University of Minnesota. At Evaluation 2010, I served as a scribe for Roundtable Presentation 111, Maximizing Our Collective Talent: Conversations with Senior Evaluators, which brought evaluation leaders together with novice and mid-career evaluators to engage in evaluation discourse around 8 different issue tables. I chose it …
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I am Susan Kistler, AEA’s Executive Director. After my junior year in high school, I attended a short summer program in between working 50 hours weeks at a health food restaurant. The restaurant t-shirts read “Something Natural…and Something Else” on a sea of earthy green. The summer program searched for something similarly pithy. After a …
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My name is Doug Koch, I am an assistant professor in the Department of Industrial and Engineering Technology at Southeast Missouri State University. As a university faculty member I find it both ironic and concerning that faculty evaluation instruments often have some very basic issues. Being knee-deep in the promotion and tenure process, I thought …
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Good day! Susan Kistler here, AEA’s Executive Director and aea365 regular Saturday contributor. Everyone has used Google to search (ok almost everyone) but here are five items I’ve used from Google in the past month that you may not yet know about. Hot Tip: First, in most cases, you’ll need a google account. They are …
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Hello all! This is Shelly Engelman and Tom McKlin, and we are evaluators at The Findings Groups, LLC, a privately-owned applied research and evaluation firm with a focus on STEM education. Recently, we have used NodeXL, a free and open add-in for Excel, to conduct a social network analysis to assess inter-organizational collaboration among a …
