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 …
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 …
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. …
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 …
Happy Community Development Week! We are Asma M. Ali from AA & Associates LLC in Chicago, Jovita Murillo of the University of Louisville, and Noé Rubén Chávez of Charles R. Drew University of Medicine and Science. Gentrification is a process of community change where higher-income earners move into lower-income neighborhoods, altering the community’s makeup. Our …
Hello AEA365 Blog readers! I’m Sandy Sheppard, a community social worker (LMSW) and researcher (PhD) working as a Senior Evaluation Associate for CCNY, Inc. in Buffalo, NY. In March 2022, the Community Development TIG sponsored a week of blogs exploring community development evaluation through practice- and project-based examples of how AEA members were addressing diversity, …
Hello. I’m Sylvia Pu, a researcher, evaluator, and career coach at Sylvia Pu Consulting. My work focuses on measuring and diversifying school-to-career pathways. For the past few years, I have been working on co-creating solutions with communities using participatory and community-engaged methods. In this post, I want to invite you to reframe community reluctance to …
Hi, we’re Matthew Closter and David Hanson, here to share reflections on the role of community development in advancing place-based systems change. As evaluators focused on racial equity, we have extensive knowledge and experience positioning evaluations to center and uplift community voice. Matthew Closter, Director at Equal Measure, has more than 15 years’ experience in …
Hi! I’m Norma Kok, and I lead the Monitoring, Evaluation, Research and Learning Department at Citizen Leader Lab in Cape Town, South Africa. I hold a Master’s degree in Public Health and extensive experience (16 years) in monitoring and evaluation in various national and international organizations. Over the years I have witnessed the transformative power …
