AEA365 contributor, Curated by Elizabeth Grim

My name is Molly C. O’Connor, and I am the founder of Coco Canary Consulting, a Creative Evaluation & arts-based methods firm based in St. Paul, MN (the ancestral lands of the Dakota people). In 2023, I completed a Seattle-based Creative Evaluation & Community Engagement project with Sully Moreno, a community engagement specialist from Culture Shift Consulting. I want to share three lessons I learned from this project that I will take with me going forward.

Hello, I am Matthew Sanscartier, Director of Professional Learning at the Canadian Evaluation Society (CES). The Program Evaluation Standards (PES) play a crucial role in the CES’ required competencies for evaluators seeking credentialing. The CES recently updated its five-year strategic plan to align with the changing context of evaluation work, emphasizing three core values: upholding …

PE Standards Week: Evaluation Standards in a Changing Landscape: The PES and CES’s Journey Forward by Matthew Sanscartier Read More »

Hello, I’m Goldie MacDonald and I represent the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) on the Joint Committee on Standards for Educational Evaluation (JCSEE). I’m excited to share a favorite resource: The Qualitative Report (TQR) Weekly, which are curated emails from TQR editors with featured articles, podcasts and other job aids, training opportunities, …

PE Standards Week: How did an article on yoga practice unlock new understandings of work to revise the Program Evaluation Standards? By Goldie MacDonald Read More »

Hi, I’m Juan D’Brot; I represent the National Council on Measurement in Education (NCME) on the Joint Committee on Standards for Educational Evaluation. Do you remember when you first encountered evaluation as a discipline? I vividly recall my first post-graduate interview, where I was unexpectedly asked to differentiate between research and evaluation (spoiler: I didn’t …

PE Standards Week: Sharpening the Distinction between Research and Evaluation by Juan D’Brot Read More »

Hello from Charleston, South Carolina. I am Paula Egelson, retired from the Southern Regional Education Board in Atlanta as the director of Research and Accountability. For the past 25 years, I have been a committee member of the Joint Committee on Standards for Educational Evaluation (JCSEE). For almost 50 years, the mission of the JCSEE …

PE Standards Week: The Influence of the Program Evaluation Standards by Paula Egelson Read More »

Hi, I’m Art Hernandez, a professor at the University of the Incarnate Word in San Antonio, Texas, a practicing evaluator, and a member of AEA since 2006. I’m currently thinking about ideas related to Culturally Responsive and Equitable Evaluation (CREE), the applications of Community Based and Participatory Research/Evaluation (CBPR) methodologies to advance social justice, and …

PE Standards Week: Relevance and Applicability of the Joint Committee on Standards for Educational Evaluation (JCSEE) Standards on Program Evaluation by Art Hernandez Read More »

The Program Evaluation Standards – Guidelines and Practitioner’s Guide by Thanos Patelis Hello, everyone, my name is Thanos Patelis, and I am a director of test development and assessment at the Center for Talented Youth at Johns Hopkins University and lead psychometrician at the Center for Certification and Competency-Based Education at the University of Kansas. …

PE Standards Week: The Program Evaluation Standards – Guidelines and Practitioner’s Guide by Thanos Patelis Read More »

I am Brad Watts, an evaluator with over two decades of experience and a former chair of the Joint Committee on Standards for Educational Evaluation (JCSEE), the group officially charged with developing, reviewing, and approving evaluation standards in North America. Today’s blog serves two purposes. First, I would like to introduce a week of blogs …

PE Standards Week: Thinking About Standards Past and Present, at Home and Abroad by Brad Watts Read More »