Hello AEA community, my name is Patricia Campion, PhD in Sociology and currently an independent evaluator with twenty years of experience. A valuable lesson I have learned through the years is that we shouldn’t be afraid to keep things simple to be mindful to our audience, and that it doesn’t mean we have to dumb …
Good day to you all, I return to continue what I started, when I previously mentioned the African Diaspora and its effects on my social identity and professional role. Once again, I am Charity Odetola, a West African woman and budding evaluator, where the aftermath of colonization and the African Diaspora have influenced a lack …
Am I a Colonizer or Decolonizer … of Methodologies? Part II by Charity Odetola Read More »
Hello, I, Charity Odetola, an international student from West Africa, greet you from Greensboro, North Carolina, where I am a second-year graduate student at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro, working on a Master’s Degree in Educational Research and Methodology with a Program Evaluation emphasis. This current endeavor, informed by my past experiences, has …
Am I a Colonizer or Decolonizer … of Methodologies? Part I by Charity Odetola Read More »
Hello from Tamara Walser and Kirsten Kainz! Tamara is a professor at the University of North Carolina Wilmington and Kirsten is a research professor at the University of North Carolina Chapel Hill. We both enjoy the Carolina coast and talking about evaluation, particularly how the evaluation field has evolved and where we hope it’s headed. …
Centering Our Values and Cause to Define Evaluation by Tamara Walser & Kirsten Kainz Read More »
I am Ryan Watkins and as a professor at George Washington University, where I do research on and teach about needs, needs assessments, and how people collaborate in making decisions with increasing ‘intelligent’ technologies. Making judgments about what actions to take (or what actions to recommend that others take) routinely requires complex considerations about the …
NA TIG Week: Needs and Artificial Intelligence by Ryan Watkins Read More »
I’m Maurya West Meiers. I work at the World Bank as a Senior Evaluation Officer working on the Global Evaluation Initiative. I’m also coauthor of A Guide to Assessing Needs: Essential Tools for Collecting Information, Making Decisions, and Achieving Development Results (free World Bank book). Decision-making is fundamental to doing needs assessments (and other evaluation-related work) – whether in an …
NA TIG Week: Decision-making Resources for your Needs Assessments by Maurya West Meiers Read More »
Hi, my name is Sylvia Otieno and I am a Research Assistant at Higher Ed Insight, we work with nonprofits, foundations, colleges and universities to help develop, implement, research and evaluate programs and efforts to improve education and workforce outcomes. In this blog, I highlight three resources on conducting a labor market assessment for youth …
Greetings! I am Madhawa “Mads” Palihapitiya, an evaluator from UMass Boston. I have been using participatory approaches to needs assessment and asset mapping with youth for a while now. I have been evaluating The Youth Conflict Resolution & Restorative Practices Program administered by Massachusetts’ statutory state dispute resolution office (MOPC) for the past eight years. …
Hi, we are James W. Altschuld, Hsin-Ling Hung, and Yi-Fang Lee from The Ohio State University, Virginia Commonwealth University, and National Taiwan Normal University and have presented on, written about, and been involved in NAs for years. Need is the difference between the desired or what should be state of an entity and its current …
Welcome to the Needs Assessment TIG’s week on AEA 365! I’m Lisle Hites, Chair of the Needs Assessment TIG and Associate Professor in Community Medicine and Population Health at the University of Alabama. On behalf of all of us in the Needs Assessment TIG, I hope you’ll enjoy this week’s blog entries and we look …
