We are Lisa Aponte-Soto and Leah Christina Neubauer, members of the AEA Public Statement on Cultural Competence in Evaluation (The Statement) Dissemination Working Group. Aponte-Soto teaches at DePaul University, and is an independent consultant. Neubauer is based in DePaul’s MPH Program. The Statement reminds us that cultural competence is essential to all evaluation theory and …
Hi! My name is Osman Ozturgut. I am an assistant professor of doctoral studies at the University of the Incarnate Word. I have been teaching about culture and evaluation for some time now and I wanted to share my experiences. Lesson Learned: Learning cannot happen unless we understand the social, cultural, economic, educational, and political …
Asma Ali and Anthony Heard, Professional Development Committee co-chairs for the Chicagoland Evaluation Association (CEA), say “Hello!” from the Windy City. CEA’s professional development presentations in 2014 have focused on various strategies employed by professional evaluators to work with their clients and stakeholders. Defining “culture” to include environmental context, attendees agreed that evaluators have a …
Hi! We are Nicole Robinson, Laura Pinsoneault, Nicky Bowman, and Emily Connors and we’re founding members of ¡Milwaukee Evaluation!. ¡Milwaukee Evaluation! is located in Wisconsin and is a professional development and field building collaborative of Wisconsin-based evaluators. We are also the statewide AEA affiliate. Our current field building initiatives center on diverse representation among evaluation …
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Hi, my name is Dominica McBride and I’m a member of the AEA Public Statement on Cultural Competence in Evaluation Dissemination Working Group, along with CEO of Become, Inc., a nonprofit using culturally responsive program evaluation as a tool in realizing social justice. I also teach Diversity at The Chicago School of Professional Psychology. Lesson …
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Hello, we are Rupu Gupta and Tamara Bertrand Jones, members of the AEA Public Statement on Cultural Competence Dissemination Working Group (CCWG). We lead the Research and Evaluation subgroup and are developing strategies to understand how the larger working group is achieving its goals. Lesson Learned: Purpose of Research and Evaluation subgroup. We started our work within this subgroup …
Hi! Sheila B Robinson here, aea365’s Lead Curator and sometimes Saturday contributor with a few favorite eval sites with a broad range of content and free resources. Due to space limitations, I’ve left out descriptions of the most well known, but I do have them all and more here. Lesson Learned: Start with: AEA, Better Evaluation, Centers for Disease …
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Hello! I’m Lisa Kohne, an independent evaluator and I work for SmartStart Consulting in Orange County, California. We specialize in conducting project evaluations for federally funded grants, primarily from the National Science Foundation. Most of our clients are math, science, and engineering professors from four-year universities. One of our big challenges is that some of …
I’m Bethany Laursen, Evaluation Outreach Specialist with the Solid & Hazardous Waste Education Center (SHWEC) at the University of Wisconsin. I’m also principal consultant at Laursen Evaluation and Design, LLC. At SHWEC, I help staff design programs that engage opportunities to achieve our mission. Opportunity hunting requires a form of situation assessment, which has not …
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Hi! I’m Heather King, an Associate Project Director at Outlier Research & Evaluation at the University of Chicago. I’d like to share some tips for applying to conduct research in school districts. Research review boards (RRBs) and institutional review boards (IRBs) are tasked with ensuring that research and evaluation projects meet the requirements for protecting …
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