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Video in #Eval Week: Paul Barese on the Value Added of Video

Greetings. I’m Paul Barese, Owner-Director of Quimera, a small business based in Washington, DC. Quimera isn’t a traditional media house, rather, teams are interdisciplinary and our approaches are informed by social science and qualitative research, change management, film studies, and social enterprise. Quimera helps clients identify innovative ways to use video. In some projects video-based …

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Video in #Eval Week: William Rickards on Video Interviewing in Evaluation Inquiry

Leave a Comment / Assessment in Higher Education, Integrating Technology into Evaluation, Qualitative Methods / April 2, 2013 April 2, 2013

My name is William Rickards; I am currently senior research associate in the Office of Program Accreditation and Evaluation at USC Rossier School of Education. My career has largely been focused in higher education, although I have worked in program evaluation in delinquency prevention, youth services, and in a range of educational and social services. …

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Video in #Eval Week: Cindy Banyai on Putting it in Their Hands – Using participatory video to foster evaluation ownership

2 Comments / Integrating Technology into Evaluation / April 1, 2013 April 1, 2013

Hi! I’m Cindy Banyai, Executive Director of the Refocus Institute – an international collaboration focusing on training and participatory practices in evaluation. I want to share my experience using participatory video to fully bring evaluation participants into the process. Lessons Learned – how we’re using video: Video is one tool for analysis and expression in …

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Video in #Eval Week: Kas Aruskevich on Telling the Story Through Video

1 Comment / Indigenous Peoples in Evaluation, Integrating Technology into Evaluation, STEM Education and Training / March 31, 2013 March 31, 2013

Greetings from Alaska. I’m kas aruskevich, principal of Evaluation Research Associates (ERA), I work in rural Alaska with a great team of evaluators, associates, and local intermediaries. In the unique Alaskan context in which we work, telling the story through video helps us to show the context of people, place, and situations. Video clips, compiled …

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Susan Kistler on the 2013 Summer Evaluation Training Institute

1 Comment / Uncategorized / March 30, 2013 March 30, 2013

I am Susan Kistler, AEA’s Executive Director and aea365’s regular Saturday contributor. Today I wanted to share one of the raddest resources of all! Rad Resource – AEA Summer Evaluation Institute: Registration is now open for the AEA Summer Evaluation Training Institute, to be held June 3-5 in Atlanta, Georgia. Let’s take a look at …

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Paul Bakker on Abandoning the 95% Rule

7 Comments / Quantitative Methods: Theory and Design / March 28, 2013 March 28, 2013

I’m Paul Bakker, the founder and lead consultant of Social Impact Squared. I help agencies with a social purpose understand, measure, communicate, and improve their outcomes. One of the services I provide is data analysis, so I deal with statistical significance quite a lot. Hot Tip: Abandon the 95% rule. In statistics classes, they teach you to …

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Susan Kistler on Songs With an Evaluation Message

3 Comments / Data Visualization and Reporting / March 23, 2013 March 23, 2013

I am Susan Kistler, the American Evaluation Association’s Executive Director and aea365’s regular Saturday contributor. On occasion, I offer training on different aspects of evaluation. Following a recent workshop at the Minnesota Evaluation Studies Institute, I posted the following to AEA’s LinkedIn Group: Do you know of songs with an evaluation bent? This might be …

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ECLIPS and Systems TIG Week: Tarek Azzam and Matt Keene Recap Systems-Oriented Evaluation

3 Comments / STEM Education and Training, Systems in Evaluation / March 22, 2013 March 22, 2013

Hello! We are Tarek Azzam (Claremont Graduate University) and Matt Keene (Environmental Protection Agency). We are members of the External Review Panel for ECLIPS. Whoa! Even though it’s oh-so-tempting to try, you don’t need the perfect string of words to define “systems-oriented evaluation.” Lesson Learned: It’s in the roots of evaluation At its core a …

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ECLIPS and Systems TIG Week: Karen Peterman and Marah Moore on How a Systems Orientation Influences an Evaluator’s Role

1 Comment / STEM Education and Training, Systems in Evaluation / March 21, 2013 March 21, 2013

Hello! We are Karen Peterman (Karen Peterman Consulting, Co.) and Marah Moore (Director of i2i institute and ECLIPS coPI). We are going to talk about some of the implications of a systems approach for the role of the evaluator. In a recent Thought Leaders Forum, Michael Patton reminded us that evaluation is a transdisciplinary field. …

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ECLIPS and Systems TIG Week: Reider, Fitzhugh, and Na’im on Using the Systems Concepts of Boundaries, Relationships, and Perspectives to Identify Leverage Points

Leave a Comment / STEM Education and Training, Systems in Evaluation / March 20, 2013 March 20, 2013

Hello, we are David Reider (Education Design, Inc.), Ginger Fitzhugh (Evaluation and Research Associates), and Alyssa Na’im (Education Development Center, Inc.). As ECLIPS members, we are incorporating systems concepts into STEM education evaluations related to the National Science Foundation program, Innovative Technology Experiences for Students and Teachers (ITEST). Keying off the iceberg diagram (see Monday’s …

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