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PD CoP Week: Rashell Bowerman on Evaluating Professional Development: Guskey Level One: Participant Reactions

Hello, I am Rashell Bowerman, Educational Consultant for the Michigan Department of Education. I formally worked as a doctoral associate for the National Secondary Transition Technical Assistance Center (NSTTAC) and continue to participate in NSTTAC’s Evaluating Professional Development Community of Practice. NSTTAC is committed to data-based decision making and views evaluation as a tool for …

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PD CoP Week: Anne D’Agostino, Jennifer Coyle, and June Gothberg on Building a Cross-Community Collaborative Evaluation Community of Practice

Leave a Comment / Disabilities and Underrepresented Populations, Organizational Learning and Evaluation Capacity Building / August 19, 2012 August 20, 2012

Greetings, we are Anne D’Agostino, of Compass Evaluation and Research, and Jennifer Coyle and June Gothberg representing the National Secondary Transition Technical Assistance Center (NSTTAC). We would like to share tips and lessons learned about building an evaluation community of practice. As part of their agreement with the U.S. Department of Education, Office of Special …

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Maxine Gilling on Lessons Learned from a Study of How Politics Influence Evaluation Policy

Leave a Comment / Research on Evaluation, Teaching of Evaluation, Theories of Evaluation / August 17, 2012 August 15, 2012

Hello, I am Maxine Gilling, Research Associate for Gaining Early Awareness and Readiness for Undergraduate Programs (GEAR UP). I recently completed my dissertation entitled How Politics, Economics, and Technology Influence Evaluation Requirements for Federally Funded Projects: A Historical Study of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act from 1965 to 2005. In this study, I examined …

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Jennifer Miller on Building Trusting Customer-Consultant Relationships

Leave a Comment / Graduate Student and New Evaluators, Independent Consulting / August 16, 2012 August 12, 2012

Hi, I’m Jennifer V. Miller. For my entire career, I’ve been in some sort of consultative role – either internally as a human resource generalist and training manager in corporate America, or for my consulting company SkillSource. When you are a consultant your primary role is to assess, then make recommendations for improvement. It’s my …

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Ian Shadrick on Accessibility During and After Your Potent Presentation

Leave a Comment / Data Visualization and Reporting, Disabilities and Underrepresented Populations / August 15, 2012 August 6, 2012

Hello, I am Ian Shadrick, program coordinator of graduate programs in Blindness and Low Vision and Orientation & Mobility at Missouri State University. As a follow up to some of great tips provided in Creating Presentation Potent for All, I’d like to talk to you today about some additional methods to ensure full inclusion of …

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Ayesha Tillman on Finding an Entry to Mid-Level Evaluation Position within a Government Agency

1 Comment / Graduate Student and New Evaluators / August 14, 2012 August 6, 2012

Hello, I am Ayesha Tillman, a fourth year Ph.D student in Educational Psychology at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (Illinois). I received my Bachelor of Science in Psychology and my Master of Arts in Research Psychology and never dreamed of working in evaluation. After receiving my MA, but prior to coming to Illinois, I worked as …

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Chelsea Heaven on Why Graduate Students Interested in Evaluation Should Consider Volunteering

Leave a Comment / Graduate Student and New Evaluators, Health Evaluation / August 13, 2012 August 2, 2012

Greetings, I am Chelsea Heaven, a recently graduated master’s level biostatistics and public health student. As with many of my fellow recent graduates, I am always on the lookout for as many opportunities as possible to kick-start my young career in statistics and evaluation. A colleague of mine who I work with at my campus’ …

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Allan Porowski and Heather Clawson on Conducting Evaluation with At-Risk Youth

Leave a Comment / Disabilities and Underrepresented Populations, Mixed Methods Evaluation, Youth Focused Evaluation / August 12, 2012 July 12, 2012

Hello! We’re Allan Porowski from ICF International and Heather Clawson from Communities In Schools (CIS). We completed a five-year, comprehensive, mixed-method evaluation of CIS, which featured a several study components – including three student-level randomized controlled trials; a school-level quasi-experimental study; eight case studies; a natural variation study to identify what factors distinguished the most …

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Kylie Hutchinson on Simple and Low Tech Things to Increase the Effectiveness of your Presentations

2 Comments / Data Visualization and Reporting / August 3, 2012 August 1, 2012

My name is Kylie Hutchinson. I am an independent evaluation consultant and trainer with Community Solutions Planning & Evaluation. I give regular webinars and workshops on evaluation topics for the AEA and CES and Twitter weekly at @EvaluationMaven. Have you ever felt bored sitting in a conference presentation, or frustrated by a presenter with poor delivery …

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Jane Eppard on the Importance of Reporting Evaluation Results

2 Comments / Disabilities and Underrepresented Populations, Nonprofits and Foundations Evaluation, Organizational Learning and Evaluation Capacity Building / August 2, 2012 July 30, 2012

Greetings, I am Jane Eppard, Vice-Chair of the Family Hope Foundation. We founded FHF in 2009 with a mission to invest in children with special needs through family support, engaging community experts, advocacy through collaboration, and financial assistance to provide access to therapies. In a very short amount of time we have gained community support …

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