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ACA TIG Week: Jessica Sperling on Initiating an Organization’s Evaluation Program

My name is Jessica Sperling, and I work in research and evaluation for education, youth development, arts/media/culture, and civic engagement programs. I am currently a researcher with the City University of New York (CUNY), where I consult on evaluation for educational programs and for StoryCorps, a storytelling/narrative-sharing program. Before joining CUNY, I had developed StoryCorps’ …

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ACA TIG Week: Steven Holochwost on Looking Deeply: Evaluation That Gets Under the Skin

My name is Steven Holochwost, and I am a Senior Research Scientist at WolfBrown, a consultancy and research firm, and a Visiting Assistant Professor in the School of Education at Johns Hopkins University. In those roles I conduct evaluations of educational programs for children, and in particular, children at risk. Lessons Learned: One of the …

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ACA TIG Week: Don Glass on Seeing the System Using Root Cause Analysis

Hi. I am Don Glass, an independent consultant who is a visual artist, learning designer, and developmental evaluator. Hot Tips: One of the things that I love about attending the AEA annual conference is getting the opportunity to better understand how my work can relate to and be informed by recent debates and developments in the …

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ACA TIG Week: Annabel Jackson on Using Neurolinguistic Programming (NLP) to Capture Non-verbal and Tacit Knowledge

Hi, I am Annabel Jackson, Co-chair of the Arts, Culture and Audiences TIG. My Co-chair, Ivonne Chand O’Neal, and I are delighted to host a week of aea365. Together, we have curated this week-long series to highlight examples of evaluation methods used to explore arts and culture, arts education, arts participation, and informal learning. Featured evaluation …

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Sheila B Robinson on the Importance of Saying Thank you

Hello loyal aea365 readers! I’m Sheila B Robinson, aea365’s Lead Curator and sometimes Saturday contributor. I ran this post around the same time last year, and felt today that it bears repeating. I struggled with some data this past week and am very thankful for my “stats guru” colleague who introduced me to a new online tool that proved …

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Elizabeth Kunz Kollmann and Marjorie Bequette on Fostering Successful Collaboration across Multiple Sites

Hello, we’re Elizabeth Kunz Kollmann from the Museum of Science, Boston and Marjorie Bequette from the Science Museum of Minnesota, two of the co-PIs for the study Complex Adaptive Systems as a Model for Network Evaluations (CASNET). As a part of CASNET, we’ve coordinated meetings, document sharing, and data analysis across team members located at …

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Sonia Worcel and Kim Leonard on Learning Communities & Evaluation: How evaluators rely on, make use of, and assess learning communities as part of funding initiatives

We are Sonia Worcel, VP for Strategy and Research, and Kim Leonard, Senior Evaluation Officer, from The Oregon Community Foundation. Our post shares highlights from the roundtable session at Evaluation 2015 during which we discussed the ways we are working within and assessing the success of several OCF learning communities. The Research team at The …

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Veronica Olazabal and Linda Raftree on 5 Non-technical Tips on Data Dashboards for Decision-Making

Veronica Olazabal (Rockefeller Foundation) and Linda Raftree (Kurante) here on considerations for data dashboards. Linda recently organized a Tech Salon on this at The Rockefeller Foundation. A session around dashboards had to include Stephanie Evergreen. We also wanted to hear from others, so we included Shawna Hoffman (MasterCard Foundation) and John DeRiggi (DAI). Dashboards might …

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Vardhani Ratnala on Assessing your D.A.T.E. (Donor Attitude Towards Evaluation)

Hi, my name is Vardhani Ratnala and I am a monitoring and evaluation professional. Sometime back, a project I associated with was shut down following an evaluation. This got me reflecting on donor attitudes towards project evaluations, especially their reactions following an evaluation which shows negative results. A cloak of secrecy descends on such projects …

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Edward Jackson, Anne Bichsel, Geske Dijkstra and Karin ter Horst on From Fuzzy to Clear: Tips from Evaluating the Swiss and Dutch Governance Programs

Greetings, all! We’re Edward Jackson, Anne Bichsel, Geske Dijkstra and Karin ter Horst, evaluation professionals who have recently evaluated Swiss and Dutch aid programs designed to strengthen national and local governance in developing countries. Governance is everybody’s business. From the run-up to the 2016 US presidential election to the recent launch of the Global Development …

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