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GOVT Week: Rakesh Mohan on Celebrating Excellence in Legislative Evaluation

Leave a Comment / Government Evaluation / October 4, 2010 October 1, 2010

Namaste! I am Rakesh Mohan, Director of Idaho State Legislature’s Office of Performance Evaluations. I currently serve on the AEA Board and am a former executive committee member of the National Legislative Program Evaluation Society (NLPES). I hope this post will inform you of some good evaluation resources at the state government level. This past …

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GOVT Week: Stanley Capela on Government Evaluation

My name is Stanley Capela. I am the Vice President for Quality Management at HeartShare Human Services of New York and the current Chair of AEA’s Government Evaluation TIG. Major Hot Tip: If you attend the AEA Conference this November, attend our business meeting where we will celebrate 20 years of Government Evaluation. Joseph Wholey …

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Susan Kistler on Saying Thank You

5 Comments / Uncategorized / October 2, 2010 October 1, 2010

My name is Susan Kistler and I contribute each Saturday’s AEA365 post. This week, I want to encourage you to say thank you. Hot Tip: About a year ago, I began starting each workday by writing five quick “Thank you” emails. Now I don’t manage to do this every single day. Some days I do …

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Korinne Chiu on Engaging Community Agencies in the Evaluation Process

1 Comment / Collaborative, Participatory and Empowerment Evaluation, Organizational Learning and Evaluation Capacity Building, Research on Evaluation / September 29, 2010 September 14, 2010

My name is Korinne Chiu and I am a doctoral student at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. I have a great interest in how program evaluation can contribute to evidence-based policy-making. I have assisted with evaluations and grants at the local and state levels on mental health and educational programs. One of the …

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Zita Unger on Naked Board Assessment

Leave a Comment / Business, Leadership, and Performance / September 26, 2010 September 4, 2010

My name is Zita Unger. I am director of a private consulting company in Australia offering online corporate diagnostic tools. I also participate in a program for company directors that provides a confidential forum to share experiences of directorship and discuss current challenges faced by directors. One recent company director session centered on a credit …

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Susan Kistler on Tips for First Time Conference Attendees

2 Comments / Uncategorized / September 25, 2010 September 24, 2010

My name is Susan Kistler. I am AEA’s Executive Director and I contribute each Saturday’s aea365 post. This week, I asked the participants on AEA’s LinkedIn Group what recommendations they had for first time conference attendees to Evaluation 2010 this November in San Antonio. Before I get to their answers, two things: If you aren’t …

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NPF Week: Bickel, Iriti & Meredith on a Learning Protocol for Learning From Grantmaking

1 Comment / Nonprofits and Foundations Evaluation / September 23, 2010 September 9, 2010

Hello. We are Bill Bickel, Jennifer Iriti, and Julie Meredith. We make up the optimistically named Evaluation for Learning Project (EFL) at the Learning Research and Development Center, University of Pittsburgh. We are writing to share a recent experience we had working with a small, regional foundation interested in learning more from its grant making …

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Susan Kistler on aea365 on your Cell, Bookmarking Keyword Searches, & Eval 2010 Prep

Leave a Comment / Uncategorized / September 18, 2010 October 22, 2010

My name is Susan Kistler and I am the Executive Director of the American Evaluation Association. I contribute each Saturday’s post to aea365. AEA365 was and is an experiment – it is a work in progress. Since January 1, 2010 when we started, we’ve evolved the format, dropped ‘blog’ from the name (having discovered that …

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Susan Hibbard on Conducting Anonymous Focus Groups

2 Comments / Integrating Technology into Evaluation, Qualitative Methods / September 16, 2010 September 2, 2010

Hello Colleagues. My name is Susan Hibbard and I am an Assistant Professor of Research & Evaluation at Florida Gulf Coast University. Through my work conducting research on evaluation, I experienced difficulty in recruiting participants for focus groups due to political sensitivity. I wanted to conduct focus groups with personnel who conduct program evaluations as …

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