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ACA Week: Kathleen Tinworth on the Need to Communicate with Creativity and Innovation

1 Comment / Arts, Culture, and Museums / November 23, 2012 November 10, 2012

I’m Kathleen Tinworth and I co-chair the recently re-named Arts, Culture, and Audiences TIG of AEA with Don Glass, who began this week’s AEA365 series. I lead the Audience Insights department at the Denver Museum of Nature & Science and also consult via my alter ego, ExposeYourMuseum. Lessons Learned Don started this week with a …

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ACA Week: Joe Heimlich on Evaluating Theatre Audience Outcomes

1 Comment / Arts, Culture, and Museums / November 22, 2012 November 10, 2012

Hi. I’m Joe E. Heimlich, a professor at Ohio State University in Extension, based at a science center. I work with all sorts of museums and increasingly with performing arts organizations and presenters. I’ve been fortunate to be able to do some interesting evaluation with jazz groups, theatre productions, dance troupes, and now a symphony. …

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ACA Week: Amy Grack-Nelson on Museum Evaluation Terminology and Methods

Leave a Comment / Arts, Culture, and Museums / November 20, 2012 November 21, 2012

Hi, I’m Amy Grack Nelson, a doctoral student in Quantitative Methods in Education at the University of Minnesota and an Evaluation and Research Associate at the Science Museum of Minnesota. Science museums offer their audiences a wide range of learning experiences including interactive exhibits, media, and programs. As a program evaluator by training, there were …

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ACA Week:Jessica Sickler on Evaluating Zoos

Leave a Comment / Arts, Culture, and Museums / November 19, 2012 November 10, 2012

I’m Jessica Sickler, and I work as a research and evaluation consultant, as a senior researcher and manager of the Lifelong Learning Group. My career began in a zoo; in answer to the obligatory cocktail party question, “No, I did not shovel the poop.” I started as an internal evaluator at the Wildlife Conservation Society …

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ACA Week: Don Glass on Arts, Culture, and Audiences Week

1 Comment / Arts, Culture, and Museums / November 18, 2012 November 10, 2012

Hi. I am Don Glass the co-chairperson of the Arts, Culture, and Audiences TIG. Along with my co-chair Kathleen Tinworth, we are excited to host a week of aea365. Our colleague Joe Heimlich has curated this series to explore evaluation of arts and culture, arts education, arts participation, informal learning, and visitor studies. Please join …

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CEA Week: Holly Lewandowski on Encouraging Clients to Think Evaluatively to Strengthen their Programs

2 Comments / Independent Consulting, Nonprofits and Foundations Evaluation / November 9, 2012 November 2, 2012

My name is Holly Lewandowski. I am the owner of Evaluation for Change, Inc. a consulting firm that specializes in program evaluation, grant writing, and research for nonprofits, state agencies, and universities. I worked as an internal evaluator for nonprofits for ten years prior to starting my business four years ago. There have been some …

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CEA Week: Mimi Doll on How to Handle Scope Creep

Leave a Comment / Independent Consulting / November 8, 2012 November 2, 2012

My name is Mimi Doll, the owner of Candeo Consulting, Inc., an independent consulting firm that builds organizations’ capacity to create meaningful change in the communities they serve. Sometimes we can prevent scope creep with good planning, other times no matter how good our preparation is, clients either don’t have a clear sense of what …

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CEA Week: Tania Rempert, Leanne Kallemeyn, David Ensminger, and Megan Polanin on Developing Evaluation Capacity Through Coaching

3 Comments / Arts, Culture, and Museums, Organizational Learning and Evaluation Capacity Building / November 7, 2012 November 2, 2012

Greetings! I am Tania Rempert, a Research Associate at University of Illinois, Champaign. This post is written together with my colleagues Leanne Kallemeyn, David Ensminger, and Megan Polanin from Loyola University in Chicago. We would like to share our preliminary findings of a case study examining evaluation coaching activities that have taken place at the …

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CEA Week: Sarah Rand on Online Evaluation Reports

6 Comments / Data Visualization and Reporting / November 6, 2012 November 2, 2012

Greetings from the University of Chicago. I am Sarah Rand, Associate Project Director and Research and Evaluation Associate at the Center for Elementary Math and Science Education (CEMSE). A challenge for every evaluator is to present findings in informative way that will be useful to the client. This summer our team evaluated Google’s computer science …

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