Hello! I’m Michelle Baron, an Independent Evaluation Strategist. In my work in higher education, I’ve encountered a mixture of evaluation champions and critics. Today I’d like to address the importance of strategic planning in building a culture of evaluation. Strategic planning is considered by many to be an organizational road map by outlining the organizational …
My name is Michelle Paul Heelan, Ph.D., an evaluation specialist and organizational behavior consultant with ICF International. In my fifteen years assisting private corporations and public agencies to track indicators of organizational health, I’ve found that moving towards more sophisticated levels of training evaluation is challenging – but here at ICF we’ve identified effective strategies …
We are Nichole Stewart and Laura Pryor and we’d like to share a preview of our presentation at the upcoming AEA 2013 conference. Our session, Performance Management to Program Evaluation: Creating a Complimentary Connection, will use a case study of a Los Angeles-based juvenile offender reentry program to demonstrate how “information and knowledge production” can …
Greetings! I am Carla Forrest, a staff member and Lean Six Sigma Black Belt at Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, New Mexico. My professional work involves configuration management of scientific and engineering knowledge and information. My passion, however, lies in using appreciative approaches to improve workplace performance. Rad Resource Recently I read “The 5 Languages of …
My name is Trina Willard and I am the Principal of Knowledge Advisory Group, a small consulting firm that provides research and evaluation services to nonprofits, government agencies and small businesses. With nearly two decades of work in the evaluation field under my belt, I’ve had many opportunities to engage leaders in discussions about evaluation …
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Hello. I am Tom Lyzenga, a PhD student at Western Michigan University, and chair of the Business, Leadership, and Performance TIG. I am also a training evaluator and performance consultant at a major international corporation. My tip today is about filling in blanks in an impact matrix or model. Challenge: Sometimes program stakeholders can’t provide …
Well, hello there! I’m Michelle Baron, Academic Assessment Specialist at Utah Valley University, and an Independent Evaluation Strategist. I’d like to share some tricks of the trade with you in building a culture of assessment in higher education. As an evaluator, the main idea for me is helping people understand what works, why it works, …
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Hi, this is Pat and Tiffany. We are doctoral candidates in Evaluation, Statistics, and Measurement who work for the Graduate School of Medicine at the University of Tennessee. We completely redesigned a statistics and epidemiology curriculum where none of the previous instructors had formally outlined what they wanted their residents to learn. We not only …
Hello, I’m Tamara Bertrand Jones. I’m an Assistant Professor of Higher Education at Florida State University and a former Director of Research and Evaluation in Student Affairs. Assessment in higher education has largely been used for external accountability. Divisions and departments can use these external mandates for internal improvement and make assessment part of daily …
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My name is Nina Potter and I am the Director of Assessment for the College of Education at San Diego State University. As the Director of Assessment, a large part of my job entails working with faculty and administrators in implementing program assessments plans from start to finish – designing assessments to measure program outcomes, …
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