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Michelle Baron on Involving Stakeholders in the Evaluation Process

Leave a Comment / Collaborative, Participatory and Empowerment Evaluation, Organizational Learning and Evaluation Capacity Building / June 4, 2011

Hello, I’m Michelle Baron. I am the Associate Director at The Evaluators’ Institute (an evaluation training organization), and the Chair of the aea365 Tip-a-Day Team. Today I’d like to share with you some strategies for involving stakeholders in the evaluation process. In today’s fast-paced, information rich world, one of the most helpful pieces of guidance …

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Steve Fleming on Explaining Statistical Significance

6 Comments / Quantitative Methods: Theory and Design / May 25, 2011

My name is Steve Fleming, and I work for the National Center for Educational Achievement, a department of ACT, Inc. whose mission is to help people achieve education and workplace success. I also earned an M.S. in Statistics from the University of Texas at Austin. I have been thinking a lot lately about how to explain …

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Eun Kyeng Baek and SeriaShia Chatters on the Risks in Internal Evaluation

4 Comments / Internal Evaluation / May 10, 2011

Hello everyone! Our names are Eun Kyeng Baek and SeriaShia Chatters. We are an evaluation team and doctoral students from the University of South Florida. We have served as internal and external evaluators in program evaluations in university settings. Additionally, we have experience in the development and administration of evaluation tools. Serving as an internal …

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Lindsey Dunn and Lauren Fluegge on Organizing Data

1 Comment / Data Visualization and Reporting / May 9, 2011

Our names are Lindsey Dunn and Lauren Fluegge and we are PhD. students at The University of North Carolina at Greensboro. Recently, we have been involved with a project in which the data come from many different sources and often include hundreds of thousands of cases. We used primarily three programs to organize and merge …

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Allison Chapman and Jia Ma on the Function of Evaluative Inquiry for the Development of Graduate Students

Leave a Comment / Collaborative, Participatory and Empowerment Evaluation, Graduate Student and New Evaluators / May 20, 2011

Hello, this is Allison Chapman and Jia Ma, PhD students in the Assessment and Evaluation Group (AEG) at Queen’s University, Kingston, Canada. We are particularly interested in the challenges, impacts, and evaluations of large-scale assessments. Evaluative inquiry contributes to the personal and professional growth of individuals within organizations through the process of exploring individuals’ values, …

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Judy Woods on Presenting Evaluation Findings as Developmental Questions Oriented Toward Program Improvement

6 Comments / Graduate Student and New Evaluators, Health Evaluation, Independent Consulting / May 9, 2011

My name is Judy Woods and I am a Doctoral student at Queen’s University in Kingston, Ontario, Canada.  As a member of the graduate Assessment and Evaluation group, my first project as a novice evaluator involved the evaluation of an innovative medical education program.  Being a Registered Nurse with extensive clinical experience in a university …

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Jessica Foster on Maximizing Survey Response Rates

1 Comment / Evaluation Use, Qualitative Methods, Quantitative Methods: Theory and Design / May 9, 2011

Hello, I’m Jessica Foster, a Research and Evaluation Analyst at Franklin County Children Services.  Our agency provides child protective services for the Central Ohio area.  During the course of my career, I have administered many surveys to a variety of stakeholders and clients.  I’ve learned from my work and from the experiences shared by my …

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Alberta Mirambeau on Program Stakeholders and Evaluation Stakeholders

1 Comment / Collaborative, Participatory and Empowerment Evaluation, Evaluation Use / April 18, 2011

My name is Alberta Mirambeau and I am an ORISE fellow on the Evaluation and Program Effectiveness Team in the Division for Heart Disease and Stroke Prevention at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. I provide evaluation technical assistance to state-funded programs that implement heart disease and stroke prevention activities. Our team uses the …

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Viola, Patterson, Gray, and Boal on Reflecting on Students’ Self-Assessments of Knowledge Gained through a Program Evaluation Graduate Seminar

Leave a Comment / Assessment in Higher Education, Evaluation Use, Graduate Student and New Evaluators, Teaching of Evaluation, Theories of Evaluation / April 18, 2011

Our names are Wendy Viola, Lindsey Patterson, Mary Gray, and Ashley Boal and we are doctoral students in the Applied Social and Community Psychology program at Portland State University.  This winter, we took a course in Program Evaluation from Dr. Katherine McDonald.  We’d like to share three aspects of the seminar that we felt made …

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