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PD Presenters Week: Rebecca Woodland on Evaluating Organizational Collaboration

5 Comments / Social Network Analysis / August 12, 2015

My name is Rebecca Woodland and I have had the pleasure of working to evaluate and cultivate organizational collaboration in a range of contexts and for many different purposes. In this post I’ll share tips that evaluators can use in the developmental, formative, and summative evaluation of inter-organizational and inter-personal collaboration. I’m excited to be …

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Karen Widmer on Evaluation in Program Design: A New TIG to Help

Leave a Comment / Uncategorized / August 4, 2015

Hello! I am Karen Widmer, the Program Design TIG co-chair and a doctoral student at Claremont Graduate University. In 2014 the PD-TIG was officially approved for business and we have a full docket of presenters lined up for the 2015 AEA conference. We continue to be surprised at the many roles evaluators take at the …

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Cheryl Keeton on From Dependent to Independent

Leave a Comment / Independent Consulting / July 26, 2015

Hi, my name is Cheryl Keeton. Throughout my career, I’ve been responsible for program evaluation, review, and success. Most recently I transitioned to independent consulting to focus my energy and passion to the field of evaluation. I want to share my experience as one way to make the transition. Lessons Learned: Three years before I …

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Awab on How to Gauge Learning of a Training

2 Comments / Uncategorized / July 26, 2015

My name is Awab and I am working as Monitoring & Evaluation Specialist with the Higher Education Commission (HEC), Islamabad. To gauge the learning of a training is always a challenge. Recently, we faced this challenge when the HEC conducted the training of about 1600 top managers of Pakistani universities. The trainings were conducted through …

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Elissa Schloesser on The “Darker Side” of Data Visualization

3 Comments / Data Visualization and Reporting / July 26, 2015

Hi, I’m Elissa Schloesser founder and principal graphic designer at Visual Voice. I specialize in helping organizations visually communicate complex information, concepts and ideas—including evaluation methods, theories and findings. Rad Resource: Data Stories is a podcast that covers topics on data visualization. I highly recommend it to anyone interested in the field. A recent episode, …

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Sheila B Robinson on Social Media for professional practice: It’s not what you might think!

4 Comments / Uncategorized / July 25, 2015

Hello evaluators! I’m Sheila B Robinson, aea365’s Lead Curator and sometimes Saturday contributor. In 2010, I traveled to San Antonio, TX to attend Evaluation 2010. I was on my own, and knew no one else attending the conference. I made my first friend there by recognizing the name tag of the author of an early …

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Pam Senesac, Anita Morris, Sai Cherala, Joan Johnston, and Ruth Aboagye on Improving Performance: Facts, Flowcharts, Fishbones, Five Whys, and the Failure

1 Comment / Uncategorized / July 14, 2015

What do one doctor, three nurses and an MBA have in common? More than you might think . . . We’re Pam Senesac, Anita Morris, Sai Cherala, Joan Johnston, and Ruth Aboagye, members of the Healthcare Innovation & Quality unit at UMass Medical School’s Center for Health Policy and Research, dedicated to individual and organizational …

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Lisa R. Holliday on Using Data Dictionaries to Improve Data Quality

Leave a Comment / Uncategorized / July 14, 2015

My name is Lisa R. Holliday, and I am a Data Architect with The Evaluation Group. One aspect of my job is to work with evaluation teams to create data collection tools and assess the quality of data received. I use data dictionaries as a way to establish quality expectations. Hot Tip 1: Create Data …

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Rakesh Mohan and Lance McCleve on the Value of Credentials in Evaluations

14 Comments / Uncategorized / July 14, 2015

Greetings! We are Rakesh Mohan, Director, and Lance McCleve, Principal Evaluator, of the Idaho legislature’s Office of Performance Evaluations. Recognizing the ongoing debate about evaluator credentialing/certification, here we discuss a study that demonstrates the value of credentials in evaluations but not necessarily credentialed evaluators. As the director, I manage high stakes evaluations. A poorly conducted …

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Matthew Von Hendy on Searching For Request For Proposals (US Government Contracting Opportunities): A Few Practical Tips and Strategies

3 Comments / Uncategorized / July 11, 2015

Hello! I’m Matthew Von Hendy, owner of Green Heron Information Services, which provides research and information services to evaluation professionals.  I love helping connect people with information they need to solve problems or make decisions. A lot of time and effort goes into responding to Requests for Proposals (RFPs) so ideally you shouldn’t be spending …

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