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CEA Week: Shana Alford on The Art of Asking the Right Evaluation Questions

Leave a Comment / Health Evaluation / November 2, 2012

Greetings! My name is Shana Alford and I am an internal program evaluator at ACCESS Community Health Network, a 501 (c) federally qualified health center network of more than 40 health centers in under-served communities within the City of Chicago. As an internal evaluator, I objectively analyze how federally funded community health programs are implemented …

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CEA Week: Leah C. Neubauer on Adult Education, Planning for Learning & AEA 2012

2 Comments / Organizational Learning and Evaluation Capacity Building / November 2, 2012

Welcome to the Chicagoland Evaluation Association’s  (CEA) week of AEA 365.   My name is Leah Christina Neubauer and I am the President of CEA. CEA has organized a stimulating week of posts that address the evaluation-related work of our members. As the lead post for the week, I offer insights and resources related to the …

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Judy Savageau and Laura Sefton on Creating Standard Operating Procedures for Evaluation Projects

2 Comments / Health Evaluation / November 2, 2012

Hello! We’re Judy Savageau and Laura Sefton from the Center for Health Policy and Research (CHPR) at the University of Massachusetts Medical School. We evaluators have in our minds all the steps required to complete each project, yet we must also consider quality improvement in our work as we think about our methodologies internally and …

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Greg Lestikow and Fatima Frank on Three Basic Evaluation Presentations

1 Comment / Organizational Learning and Evaluation Capacity Building / September 27, 2012

Hello, we are Greg Lestikow, CEO and Fatima Frank, Project Manager of evalû, a small consulting firm that focuses exclusively on rigorous evaluations of social and economic development initiatives.  We champion impact evaluation that maintains academic rigor but is based entirely on our clients’ need to improve strategic and operational effectiveness and increase profitability. We …

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Ann Emery on 10 Things You Didn’t Learn in School

6 Comments / Graduate Student and New Evaluators, Independent Consulting / September 27, 2012

Greetings, I’m Ann Emery from Innovation Network in Washington, DC. I also tweet and blog about evaluation. If you recently completed your graduate or undergraduate degree, congratulations! You’ve already learned some of the key elements of evaluation. However, evaluation involves more than theory, methods, and statistical formulas. Hot Tips: Here are 10 things you probably …

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Laura Sefton on Getting Started with Atlas.ti Qualitative Analysis Software

2 Comments / Qualitative Methods / September 12, 2012

Hi! My name is Laura Sefton, Research Coordinator at the University of Massachusetts Medical School’s Center for Health Policy and Research. My colleagues and I use Atlas.ti qualitative data analysis software to facilitate our program evaluation work. Atlas is one of several software packages available to evaluators. The Center chose to purchase Atlas (1) to …

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Sheila Robinson Kohn on Igniting the Morning!

Leave a Comment / Data Visualization and Reporting / October 25, 2012

I’m Sheila Robinson Kohn from Greece Central School District and the University of Rochester, both in Rochester, NY. I’m here in Minneapolis at AEA2012 and while most of my mornings are ignited with oatmeal and coffee, THIS morning I had the pleasure of attending and presenting at my first Ignite session. Chris Lysy, our session …

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IC Week: Gail Barrington on Small is Beautiful–but Our Knowledge Transfer (KT) Opportunities Are Huge!

Leave a Comment / Independent Consulting / September 27, 2012

I’m Gail Barrington, an independent consultant with more than 25 years of experience in program evaluation and applied research, and a published author. I’m a senior evaluation adviser to a number of organizations, I teach on-line, present workshops and webinars, and write as much as I can. Our clients hire us for our expertise and …

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IC Week: Jean Eells on Small is Beautiful–Getting to Pay Day

Leave a Comment / Independent Consulting / September 27, 2012

I’m Jean Eells and I’ve operated E Resources Group, my evaluation and consulting business, for 14 years.  My clients are small non-profits and small local or state governmental departments and I run from 8 – 12 contracts at a time and up to 15 in a year mostly by myself, or with subcontractors.  My tip …

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IC Week: Susan Wolfe on Small is Beautiful–the “Jack of All Trades”

Leave a Comment / Independent Consulting / September 27, 2012

My name is Susan Wolfe, the owner of Susan Wolfe and Associates, LLC, a consulting firm that applies Community Psychology principles and evaluation skills to strengthening organizations and communities.  Being a “Jack of All Trades” is one way to combine the skills and core competencies of evaluation and community psychology to be successful as a …

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