My name is Rick Sperling, and I am the Program Director for an undergraduate academic certificate program in Community-based Assessment and Evaluation (CBAE) at St. Mary’s University in San Antonio, Texas. I have other roles, but that is the one I am writing about today. To be honest, the main reason I got into this …
Hi, I’m Art Hernandez, Professor and Director of the Minority-Serving Institution (MSI) Fellowship Program. This week, the 2021-2022 MSI Fellows and I will reflect on their experience over the past year a well as the importance of culturally responsive and equitable evaluation (CREE). The overall purpose of the American Evaluation Association (AEA) MSI Fellowship Program …
Dear friends, John LaVelle (UMN) and Jennifer Billman (HACC) here again to wrap up this week’s Theories of Evaluation series of posts. First off, we are grateful to all the week’s contributors for their reflections on evaluation theory and how theory shows up in their practice. We are also grateful for their honesty about some …
Hi, I’m Eric Einspruch, an AEA member since 1991, and one of the founders and a past President of the Oregon Program Evaluators Network . I am the Principal of ELE Consulting, LLC, which provides research, evaluation, and technical assistance services that balance rigor and real-world constraints to generate meaningful and actionable results. I have also taught graduate-level program …
Hi everyone! My name is Elizabeth (Liz) DiLuzio, Lead Curator and sometimes writer for AEA365. I am an evaluator and educator who has conducted evaluations and built capacities with non-profits, government entities, and foundations from New Hampshire to Nevada. Today, I want to talk about a less discussed but incredibly helpful and fulfilling approach to …
Hi, my name is Aaron Kates, I am a recent graduate of the Interdisciplinary PhD in Evaluation Program at Western Michigan University. I live in South Bend, Indiana and work as a consultant with EffectX, an independent evaluation firm. Today I will be sharing a few resources I found about a topic I learned about …
Hi Everyone! Dylan Felt (she/her) here from the Evaluation, Data Integration, and Technical Assistance (EDIT) Research Program at Northwestern University. Today, I’m excited to be sharing a little bit about Critical Theory and why it matters so much in evaluation theory and practice. If evaluation theory is “who we are” (Shadish, 1998), then Critical Theory …
Hello! My name is Marshall Young, I am a first-year doctoral student at the University of Tennessee Knoxville in the Educational Leadership and Policy Studies Department pursuing a degree in Evaluation, Statistics, and Methodology. One area I am interested in is evaluation theory and how it relates with practice. Although I am relatively new to …
Dear friends, Our names are John LaVelle (UMN) and Jennifer Billman (HACC). We are the co-chairs of the Theories of Evaluation TIG, and it is our pleasure to introduce this week of AEA365 posts on evaluation theory. First, we acknowledge that theory, and what we mean by theory, can be confusing as “theory” can mean …
Greetings, AEA365. Liz DiLuzio here, lead curator of the blog. Although today’s post is from the AEA365 archives, it is as relevant now as it was when it was originally posted in 2020. Whether this is your first read or your tenth, I hope you find something new and thought-provoking in this post. Hi, my name …
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