Hi, my name is Bikash Kumar Koirala. I work as a Monitoring and Evaluation Officer in the NGO Equal Access Nepal, which is based in Kathmandu, Nepal. I have been practicing monitoring and evaluation work for over five years, which is focused on development communication programs. A research project that EAN has collaborated on Assessing …
My name is Kathryn Owen and I am the Education Research Supervisor at Woodland Park Zoo in Seattle, Washington. I am also one of the PIs on New Directions in Audience Research. New Directions is a partnership between the zoo, the University of Washington Museology Graduate Program, and the Learning in Informal and Formal Education …
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Hi. My name is Victor Kuo, and I am with FSG Social Impact Consultants, a nonprofit strategy and evaluation consulting firm. How often have you heard the lament, “They liked the evaluation, but they really didn’t do anything with the findings…” or “After we discussed the results with them, the report got shelved, and we …
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My name is Leslie K. Grier and I am an Associate Professor of Child and Adolescent Studies at California State University, Fullerton. I am interested in quality programming and evaluation practices in out-of-school time programs. My interests also include moral and character development and their relationship to academic achievement. Although the terms moral and character …
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Hello, I am Bernadette Sangalang, Evaluation Director at San Francisco AIDS Foundation (SFAF), a nonprofit that aims to reduce new HIV infections through education, advocacy, and direct services. Prior to SFAF I was an evaluation officer at a large philanthropic organization. I’ve found that, to make evaluation more useful to nonprofits, it helps to start …
My name is Chris Michael Kirk, and I am a Doctoral Candidate in the Community Psychology Program at Wichita State University. During my time here, I’ve had the opportunity work with Dr. Rhonda K. Lewis on the evaluation of a federally-funded youth-serving program at the University. In programs like this, the demands of program implementation …
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Hello! This post is by Susan Hahn and Guy Sharrock. Susan works as a Monitoring and Evaluation (M&E) consultant to Catholic Relief Services (CRS), a Baltimore-based international humanitarian assistance and development agency, with whom Guy is a Senior M&E Advisor. Evaluations are an important part of our project activities, but they must be linked with …
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Hi! My name is Natalia Kosheleva. I’m a consultant at Process Consulting Company, Moscow, Russia. Here I would like to share my ideas about measuring the extent of program intervention into targeted systems. I base my work on two systems thinking principles. The Hierarchy principle says that any system is an element of some larger …
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Hi, we are Gita Upreti, Assistant Professor at the University of Texas at El Paso and Carl Liaupsin, Associate Professor at the University of Arizona in Tucson. Much of our work involves implementing broad academic and behavioral changes in educational systems. As such, we’ve had a front row seat to observe the explosion of educational …
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My name is Laura Plybon. I am currently the Director of Assessment and Instructional Design for Drury University College of Graduate and Continuing Studies in Springfield, Missouri. In addition to conducting academic assessments for the graduate programs at Drury, I also develop and implement assessment initiatives to improve instructional practices for those adult students who …
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