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LAWG Week: Valerie Williams on Connecting with Teachers for Front-End Evaluation

Leave a Comment / Prek-12 Educational Evaluation / September 20, 2014

My name is Valerie Williams and I am Senior Program Evaluator at the University Corporation for Atmospheric Research (UCAR) located in Boulder, CO. UCAR’s Center for Science Education is currently developing a new climate exhibit for the Mesa Laboratory Visitor Center and I am providing front-end evaluation support to help them test concepts and ideas …

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LAWG Week: Arens, Fuentes, and Olmos on the Local Arrangements Activities for Evaluation 2014

Leave a Comment / Uncategorized / September 20, 2014

We are Sheila A. Arens, Stephanie Fuentes, and Antonio Olmos,members of the Colorado Evaluator’s Network (COEN) and the Local Arrangements Work Group (LAWG). We are honored to be hosting the upcoming 2014 AEA Conference in Denver! The LAWG is comprised of members from the COEN community who are working on a number of subcommittees to …

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Sheila B Robinson on a new p2i tool: The Audience Engagement Workbook!

3 Comments / Uncategorized / September 20, 2014

Hello! I’m Sheila B Robinson, aea365’s Lead Curator and sometimes Saturday contributor. Evaluation is my newer career. I’m actually an educator, having taught in K12 schools and at a university. I’m also a professional developer, having provided PD courses, workshops, coaching, and mentoring to educators and evaluators for more than 15 years, so I’m no stranger to …

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Sheila B Robinson on Learning at the Beach with MOOCs

5 Comments / Uncategorized / September 13, 2014

Hi! I’m Sheila B Robinson, aea365’s Lead Curator and sometimes Saturday contributor. While I cringe at describing myself with the heavily clichéd “lifelong learner,” I’m afraid it’s all too accurate. In fact, when I dream of winning the lottery I don’t think about whiling away my days on a beach reading cheesy novels, but rather sitting in …

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Samantha Grant on Baby Steps to Building Capacity

Leave a Comment / Youth Focused Evaluation / September 10, 2014

Hi, I’m Samantha Grant, and I work for the University of Minnesota Extension as a Program Evaluator for the Center for Youth Development. As an internal evaluator, building evaluation capacity is crucial for my organization (and my mental health!) Building capacity doesn’t happen overnight, but with a few tactical strategies, you will be on your …

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New Board Member At Large Corrie Whitmore on the Importance of Aim and Audience in Internal Evaluation

Leave a Comment / Uncategorized / September 8, 2014

I’m Corrie Whitmore, one of the new At Large Board Members for AEA. I live in Anchorage, Alaska where I am president of the Alaska Evaluation Network and an internal evaluator for Southcentral Foundation, an Alaska Native owned and operated health care organization serving approximately 60,000 Alaska Native and American Indian people each year. In …

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Celeste Brubaker on Designing a Standardized Monitoring and Evaluation Framework Applicable across Multiple Programs

Leave a Comment / Uncategorized / September 7, 2014

Hi! My name is Celeste Brubaker and I am a Monitoring and Evaluation Coordinator at IREX. IREX is a US-based nonprofit organization working to improve lives through international education, professional training, and technical assistance. In our education programs division we have a portfolio of seven student programs (in which international young leaders complete intensive U.S. …

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Adam Kessler on Why Evaluations Fail – The Importance of Good Monitoring

1 Comment / Uncategorized / September 7, 2014

My name is Adam Kessler, and I work with the Donor Committee for Enterprise Development (DCED). The DCED has developed a monitoring framework called the “DCED Standard for Results Measurement”, which is currently used by over a hundred private sector development projects across five continents. This blog provides some lessons learned on why evaluators need …

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Lily Zandniapour and Nicole Vicinanza on The Social Innovation Fund Evaluation Plan Guidance Document: A Tool for Building Shared Understanding of Rigorous Impact Evaluation Designs

Leave a Comment / Uncategorized / September 7, 2014

Greetings! We are Lily Zandniapour of the Corporation for National and Community Service (CNCS) and Nicole Vicinanza of JBS International.   We work together with our colleagues at CNCS and JBS to review and monitor the evaluation plans developed and implemented by programs participating in the CNCS Social Innovation Fund (SIF).   The SIF is one of …

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p2i Week: Ann K. Emery and Johanna Morariu on Message, Design, and Delivery for Webinars

Leave a Comment / Uncategorized / January 16, 2016

Greetings, we’re Ann K. Emery and Johanna Morariu, Innovation Network evaluators and p2i Advisory Board Members. We train foundations and nonprofits on everything from Evaluation 101 concepts to logic models to data visualization through both in-person trainings and online webinars. Lesson Learned: Want to rock your next webinar? We’ve adapted p2i’s preparation, design, and delivery …

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