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EdEval Week: Manolya Tanyu on a Basic Understanding of Multilevel Modeling

My name is Manolya Tanyu and I am a researcher at American Institutes for Research (AIR), a behavioral and social science research organization to support education, educational assessment, health, international development, and work and training. My former organization, Learning Point Associates recently merged with AIR. Our world is a nested one where individuals are influenced …

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EdEval Week: Chad Green on Nested Outcome Models

Leave a Comment / Prek-12 Educational Evaluation / May 4, 2011 May 2, 2011

Chad Green here on the utility of Costa and Garmston’s maturing outcomes map from yesterday’s post. If you revisit this colorful framework, you will notice that the nested concepts form a learning continuum, ranging from concrete to abstract, similar to the outcomes in a logic model. However, if you dabble in cognitive neuroscience like myself, …

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EdEval Week: Sheila Kohn and Chad Green on Cognitive Coaching

3 Comments / Prek-12 Educational Evaluation / May 3, 2011 September 2, 2011

Hello! We are Sheila Robinson Kohn from Greece Central School District and University of Rochester in NY, and Chad Green, from Loudoun County Public Schools in northern VA. We’re program co-chairs for the PreK-12 Educational Evaluation TIG and we welcome you to our sponsored AEA365 week, in honor of Teacher Appreciation Week. We’d like to …

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EdEval Week: Manolya Tanyu on Monitoring for Continuous Program Improvement

2 Comments / Prek-12 Educational Evaluation / May 2, 2011 May 2, 2011

My name is Manolya Tanyu and I am a researcher at American Institutes for Research (AIR), a behavioral and social science research organization to support education, educational assessment, health, international development, and work and training. My former organization, Learning Point Associates recently merged with AIR. Lessons Learned: In evaluating afterschool programs, primarily 21st Century Community …

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EdEval Week: Tiffany Berry on Using Developmental Psychology to Promote the Whole Child in Educational Evaluations

1 Comment / Prek-12 Educational Evaluation / May 1, 2011 April 30, 2011

Hi! I’m Tiffany Berry, a Research Associate Professor in developmental psychology and practicing program evaluator at Claremont Graduate University’s Institute of Organizational and Program Evaluation Research (IOPER). I evaluate a variety of educational institutions, including schools, after school programs, districts, county offices of education, and textbook publishers, among others. Throughout my evaluations, I have consistently …

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Susan Kistler on 4 Must See/Hear Webcasts and Podcasts to Round Out Your Knowledge Base

1 Comment / Data Visualization and Reporting, International and Cross-cultural Evaluation, Nonprofits and Foundations Evaluation / April 30, 2011 April 30, 2011

I’m Susan Kistler, AEA’s Executive Director, and regular aea365 Saturday contributor. I was inspired by Dorian’s 4/28 post on 5 must-read blogs for those working in nonprofits, and thought I would share a few must see/hear webcasts and podcasts with which you may not be familiar. Rad Resource – Videos on Evaluation Methods from UNICEF: …

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Dorian Almont on 5 Must-Read Blogs for Those Working in Nonprofits and Foundations

3 Comments / Nonprofits and Foundations Evaluation / April 28, 2011 September 1, 2011

Hello, I’m Dorian Almont and I am an independent consultant working primarily to develop measurement capacity with nonprofit community organizations. I’d like to share five blogs that I read, after I’m done reading aea365 of course, to keep up to date on issues in the nonprofit sector. Each regularly includes discussions and contributions focusing on …

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Andrew F. Hayes on Modern Mediation Analysis

1 Comment / Quantitative Methods: Theory and Design / April 27, 2011 April 16, 2011

I am Andrew F. Hayes, an associate professor at Ohio State University, where I serve on the faculty in the School of Communication and the Department of Psychology. Though formally trained as an experimental social psychologist, I am a quantitative psychologist by vocation and at heart and have devoted the last several years thinking and …

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Na’im, Blackmon, Ortiz, Nixon, Van Dyk, and Yanowitz on Positionality Matters: Understanding Culture and Context from the Perspective of Key Stakeholders

Leave a Comment / Collaborative, Participatory and Empowerment Evaluation, Prek-12 Educational Evaluation / April 26, 2011 April 18, 2011

This post is brought to you by Alyssa Na’im of the National Science Foundation’s ITEST Learning Resource Center at the Education Development Center, and several members of the ITEST Community of Practice: Angelique Tucker Blackmon, Innovative Learning Concepts, LLC; Araceli M. Ortiz, Sustainable Future, Inc.; Carol Nixon, Edvantia, Inc.; Pam Van Dyk, Evaluation Resources, LLC; and Karen …

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Susan Kistler on Thinking Evaluatively in Your Everyday Life

1 Comment / Uncategorized / April 23, 2011 April 23, 2011

Good afternoon! Susan Kistler here, AEA’s Executive Director and regular Saturday contributor. I’m posting a little later in the day than usual for those who receive aea365 in real time. Why? On Friday, my husband and I finally completed the purchase of a small cottage in Provincetown on Cape Cod. We’ve been looking for a …

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