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ROE TIG Week: Jori N. Hall, Leanne M. Kallemeyn, and Cliff McReynolds on Similarities and Differences in Evaluation Practice

Leave a Comment / Research on Evaluation / August 9, 2015

Who We Are: We are a team of three scholars working cross-continentally: Jori N. Hall, University of Georgia, Leanne M. Kallemeyn and Cliff McReynolds, Loyola University Chicago, and Nanna Friche, Danish Institute for Local and Regional Government Research, Copenhagen. In 2011 we started a conversation on differences and similarities in evaluation practice across North America …

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ROE TIG Week: Chris Coryn and Lyssa Wilson on How Published Research on Evaluation Influences Evaluators’ Thinking

Leave a Comment / Research on Evaluation / August 9, 2015

We are Chris Coryn and Lyssa Wilson from the Interdisciplinary Ph.D. in Evaluation program at Western Michigan University. In the last decade, research on evaluation theories, methods, and practices has increased considerably. Even so, little is known about how frequently published findings from research on evaluation are read and whether such findings influence evaluators’ thinking …

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ROE TIG Week: Anne Vo on Decision Research in Education

Leave a Comment / Research on Evaluation / August 9, 2015

Hi there! I’m Anne Vo, Assistant Professor of Clinical Medical Education and Associate Director of Evaluation at the Keck School of Medicine of USC. I’m also Program Chair of the Research on Evaluation TIG. I’ll share a bit about what we have learned about evaluation use within the education sector. Evaluation & Knowledge Use The …

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ROE TIG Week: Research on Evaluation – A Glance Towards Integrative Evaluation Science

Leave a Comment / Research on Evaluation / August 9, 2015

Greetings! I’m Leslie Fierro, Assistant Clinical Professor of Evaluation at Claremont Graduate University and AEA Research on Evaluation TIG Chair. This week, aea365 is focusing on Research on Evaluation (RoE). As an avid fan of this topic, I’ll offer a working definition for RoE and provide some thoughts on where future fruitful research may emerge …

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Sheila B Robinson on Making the Most of Evaluation 2015, Even if You Cannot Attend

Leave a Comment / Uncategorized / August 7, 2015

Happy Summer! I’m Sheila B. Robinson, aea365’s Lead Curator and sometimes Saturday contributor. Last year at this time, I contributed these ideas for enjoying AEA’s annual conference even for those not attending, and they’re well worth repeating this year. Hot Tip #1 – Leverage the all new beautiful Evaluation 2015 site to Build Your Professional Network: The Evaluation 2015 Online …

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PD Presenters Week: Meg Hargreaves and David Chavis on Advancing the Implementation Science of Community/Systems Change

Leave a Comment / Uncategorized / August 6, 2015

Hi! We are Meg Hargreaves (principal associate) and David Chavis, (principal associate and CEO) at Community Science, an evaluation and consulting firm that works with governments, foundations, and non-profit organizations on solutions to social problems through community and other systems change. As part of our goal to strengthen the science and practice of building healthy, …

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PD Presenters Week: Barbara Howard, Katherine Tibbetts, Don Klinger, and Patricia McDivitt on Applying Standards to Enhance Evaluation

Leave a Comment / Uncategorized / August 1, 2015

Who we are: Hello, my name is Barbara Howard, Chair of the Joint Committee on Standards for Educational Evaluation. My colleagues, Katherine Tibbetts, Don Klinger, and Patricia McDivitt, serve on the Joint Committee, which is a consortium of seventeen professional organizations, including AEA. Katherine Tibbetts is our AEA representative. We want to share our work …

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PD Presenters Week: Martha McGuire on Conducting evaluations that make a difference: Learning what works

Leave a Comment / Uncategorized / August 5, 2015

Hi! I am Martha McGuire, a credentialed independent evaluator who has been working with a great group of people from around the world: Burt Perrin, Soma De Silva, Pablo Rodriquez-Bilella, Serge Eric Yakeu, Rochelle Zorzi, Ramon Crespo, Dayna Albert, Eric McGraw and Scott Bayley. We have been gathering stories about evaluations that make a difference. …

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PD Presenters Week: Monica Oliver and Krista Collins Creating an Index for Measuring Fidelity of Implementation

Leave a Comment / Uncategorized / August 1, 2015

Hi! We are Monica Oliver and Krista Collins, evaluation practitioners in Atlanta, GA. Through our extensive work with the US Department of Education (e.g. Investing in Innovation (i3), Race to the Top-District), we have constructed implementation fidelity frameworks for several complex, multi-level education programs.   At the past two AEA annual conferences we, along with our …

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PD Presenters Week: Jennifer Catrambone Has Great News for Those of You Who Don’t Always Have Perfect Data

Leave a Comment / Quantitative Methods: Theory and Design / August 1, 2015

Hi there – my name is Jennifer Catrambone and I am the Director of Evaluation & Quality Improvement at the Ruth M Rothstein CORE Center in Chicago, Illinois. That’s an Infectious Disease Clinic specializing in HIV/AIDS. I’m presenting on my favorite nerdy topic – the what and how of Nonparametric Statistics. I’ve taught both parametric …

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