My name is Bob Spencer and I work for the Riverside, California Department of Mental Health. I serve as an evaluator for a program that aims to keep children with mental health and substance abuse problems in their natural home with their family. My goal for this blog post is to share some of my …
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My name is John LaVelle. I am a student at Claremont Graduate University and served as the Research and Jobs Coordinator for the evaluation program for two and a half years. Today I will be sharing three tips and one resource. Well, it’s graduation time of year, and congratulations to all the new graduates! When …
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Hello, I’m William Moore and I am the Director of Research and Measurement at the Institute for Research and Reform in Education (www.irre.org). IRRE partners with schools, districts, and states to transform public schools into more engaging, rigorous, and caring places for students to learn and teachers to teach. My colleagues and I have spent …
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Hi, my name is Jim Altschuld. I am a faculty emeritus at the Ohio State University in the school of educational policy and leadership. Today I will be sharing some tips on needs assessment. You’re called in and they want to assess their needs. That’s great because you’ve been steeped in Witkin, Altschuld, Kaufman, Gupta, …
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Hi! We are Carrie M. Brown (student) & Angela Walmsley (professor) from Saint Louis University. Today we will be sharing some tips on having a successful semester-long evaluation experience. Graduate students can become discouraged to conduct a program evaluation by thinking it will take too long to complete and by not having direct assistance from …
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Hi, my name is René Lavinghouze, I am a senior evaluation scientist in the Office of Smoking and Health at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Today I will be sharing a tip and a resource concerning storytelling in evaluation. Hot Tip: Who can resist a picture of a smiling child who is now …
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My name is Laura Myerchin Sklaroff and I am a Project Manager, Researcher, and Evaluator with Los Angeles County Department of Health Services, Clinical Resource Management (LAC DHS CRM). My focus is on health care quality improvement for low income and underrepresented populations; prior to LAC DHS CRM I coordinated the nationally recognized practice-based research …
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Hello! My name is Stefanie Leite and I am a Research Assistant for Advanced Empirical Solutions and an Independent Evaluation Consultant. As program evaluators, we seem to find ourselves in the role of interviewer more often than not. However, job seeking transfers our role to interviewee. While it may take a different set of skills, …
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My name is Emily Warn and I’m a senior partner at SocialQuarry, a social media consulting group that plans and analyzes online networks and social media for non-profits, foundations, and public agencies. Today I’m going to be sharing a hot tip about using social media in evaluations. This past week Facebook surpassed Google in US …
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Hi, my name is Dreolin Fleischer. I am a doctoral student at Claremont Graduate University. Today I’ll be sharing a tip about running PC programs on Mac Computers. Hot Tip: I have used a Mac for the last five years and I am very happy using a Mac; however, there are those times that you …
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