My name is Alicia McCoy and I am the Research and Evaluation Manager at Family Life in Melbourne, Australia. Family Life is a community service organization that offers a diverse range of services for families, children and young people, including family support, counseling, and mediation. In 2009, Family Life established an internal research and evaluation …
My name is Rahel Wasserfall. I am an internal evaluator and do program development for the International Summer School on Religion in the Public Life (ISSRPL). I’m also affiliated with the Women Studies Research Center at Brandeis University and use mostly qualitative methods, including participant observation and in-depth interviews. As an evaluator with nine years …
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My name is Stan Capela, and I am the VP for Quality Management and the Corporate Compliance Officer for HeartShare Human Services of New York. I have devoted my entire career to being an internal evaluator in the non-profit sector since 1978. In graduate school, you develop a wide range of skills on how to …
Greetings aea365 community! I’m Ann Emery and I’ve been both an external evaluator and an internal evaluator. Today I’d like to share a few of the reasons why I absolutely love internal evaluation. Lessons Learned: Internal evaluation is a great career option for fans of utilization-focused evaluation. It gives me opportunities to: Meet regularly with Chief Operating Officers and Executive …
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We welcome you to join the Internal Evaluation week! My name is Boris Volkov. I’m Chair of IE TIG, working at the Center for Global Health (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta). All next week you’ll hear from our members, internal evaluators from different fields and organizations will share practical examples and lessons from …
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Hello, we are Rashon Lane, Alberta Mirambeau from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and Steve Sullivan from Cloudburst Consulting and we work together on an evaluation aimed at assessing the uptake, use and impact of national public health hypertension recommendations by the Institute of Medicine (IOM). If you’ve ever wondered how to assess …
I’m Ryan Watkins and I am an associate professor at George Washington University. Among other things, I maintain the needs assessment resource website Gap In Results. My topic today is how I remain current with research and practice in the many fields associated with needs assessment. Hot Tips: Start a Virtual Book Club. Book clubs help me …
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Hello, I am Carolyn Cohen, owner of Cohen Research & Evaluation, LLC, based in Seattle Washington. I specialize in program evaluation and strategic learning related to innovations in the social change and education arenas. I have been infusing elements of Appreciative Inquiry into my work for many years. Appreciative Inquiry is an asset-based approach, developed …
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Greetings from Ann Arbor! My name is John Branch and I am a professor of marketing at the Ross School of Business, and a faculty associate at the Center for Russian, East European, & Eurasian Studies, both at the University of Michigan. I am also in the midst of my second doctoral degree, and Ed.D. …
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We’re Allison Titcomb, President of ALTA Consulting in Tucson, and Lenay Dunn, Associate Director for Research and Evaluation, University Office of Evaluation and Educational Effectiveness, Arizona State University Maybe, like us, you’ve thought about joining a book club, but there never seems to be enough time. How about if you combined an engaging and fun …
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