My name is Sebastian. Before pursuing my PhD at UCLA, I served as a senior evaluation consultant at Ramboll Management – a Copenhagen-based consulting firm. My current interests revolve around research syntheses and causal modeling techniques. A common practice in evaluation is to examine the existing body of evidence of the type of intervention to …
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Hi—we are Garry Lowry from the Office for State, Tribal, Local and Territorial Support at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Lynn Chaiken from the Association of State and Territorial Health Officials, and Tamara Lamia from ICF International. We are part of a team that conducted a rapid eight-month evaluability assessment of the Preventive …
We are Frances Lawrenz and Amy Grack Nelson, University of Minnesota, and Marjorie Bequette, Science Museum of Minnesota (where Amy works, too). We are members of the Complex Adaptive Systems as a Model for Network Evaluations (CASNET) research team. When we started this project, complexity theory seemed exciting, but daunting. What is complexity theory, you …
This is Frances Lawrenz and Amy Grack Nelson from University of Minnesota; Amy also works at the Science Museum of Minnesota. We’re part of the Complex Adaptive Systems as a Model for Network Evaluations (CASNET) research project, which has involved observing, interviewing, audio recording and collecting artifacts about adult participants in the NSF-funded Nanoscale Informal …
We’re Jean King and Frances Lawrenz (University of Minnesota) and Elizabeth Kunz Kollmann (Museum of Science, Boston), members of a research team studying the use of concepts from complexity theory to understand evaluation capacity building (ECB) in networks. We purposefully designed the Complex Adaptive Systems as a Model for Network Evaluations (CASNET) case study research …
Greetings! This is Scott Pattison and Melanie Francisco from the Oregon Museum of Science and Industry and Juli Goss from the Museum of Science, Boston. We are part of the research team for the NSF-funded Complex Adaptive Systems as a Model for Network Evaluations (CASNET) project. Today we’re focusing on how project leaders and senior …
Sarah Cohn, Science Museum of Minnesota, and Scott Pattison, Oregon Museum of Science and Industry, here, members of the CASNET research team. Together we led NISE Net’s evaluation capacity building (ECB) initiative, Team-Based Inquiry (TBI), “. . . a practical approach to empowering education professionals to get the data they need, when they need it, …
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This is Jean King and Gayra Ostegaard Eliou, from the University of Minnesota, members of the Complex Adaptive Systems as a Model for Network Evaluations (CASNET) research team. NSF funded CASNET to provide insights on (1) the implications of complexity theory for designing evaluation systems that “promote widespread and systemic use of evaluation within a …
Happy Fall loyal readers! I’m Sheila B Robinson, aea365’s Lead Curator and sometimes Saturday contributor with a reminder to register early for Evaluation 2015. Hot Tip: Be an early bird! Register now. If you are planning to attend Evaluation 2015, the American Evaluation Association’s Annual Conference in Chicago, Illinois this November, and have not yet done so, register …
Sheila B Robinson on Spreading Your Wings and Registering for Evaluation 2015! Read More »
Hello! We are Gabriela Garcia and Rebecca Teasdale, two Chicagoans who are also doctoral students in Educational Psychology specializing in program evaluation at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. We want to take this opportunity to not only welcome all graduate students who will be attending the AEA conference this fall, but to also share …
