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Tamara Young on New Directions in Evaluation Based on Trends in Education

1 Comment / Prek-12 Educational Evaluation / July 1, 2014 June 29, 2014

I’m Tamara Young and I am an associate professor in Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis at North Carolina State University. I teach evaluation theory and practice to school principals, superintendents, and college and university administrators. Today, I am sharing a few hot tips I have surmised about future directions in evaluation based on trends in education. …

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Shannon Griswold, Alexandra Medina-Borja, and Kostas Triantis on Linking Scientific Discoveries to Societal Needs

Leave a Comment / Research, Technology and Development Evaluation / June 30, 2014 June 29, 2014

We are Shannon L. Griswold, Ph.D., a scientific research evaluator and member of AEA’s Research Technology and Development TIG, Alexandra Medina-Borja, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Industrial Engineering at University of Puerto Rico-Mayaguez, and Kostas Triantis, Ph.D., Professor of Systems Engineering at Virginia Tech. We are thinking about new ways to envision and evaluate impacts from …

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Sherry Campanelli and Laura Newhall on Facilitation Not Dictation: How a QI Team Succeeds

Hi. We’re Sherry Campanelli, Program Compliance Manager and Laura Newhall, Clinical Training Coordinator, from the University of Massachusetts Medical School’s Disability Evaluation Services (DES). Although DES conducts evaluations regarding whether an applicant for public benefits can be found disabled, evaluation as a research endeavor is not our primary focus. Nevertheless, as an organization, we are …

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DVR TIG Week: Ann K. Emery and Stephanie Evergreen on the Data Visualization Checklist

2 Comments / Data Visualization and Reporting / June 27, 2014 June 23, 2014

Hey friends! We are Ann Emery, Co-Chair of the DVRTIG, and Stephanie Evergreen, Founder of the DVRTIG – two evaluators who are crazy about data visualization. “I love your examples, but how do I know what I should do next time I’m creating a graph?” We heard comments like this when we talked with evaluators about …

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DVR TIG Week: Gretchen Biesecker on Applying Structures of Good Stories to Reporting Data

2 Comments / Data Visualization and Reporting / June 26, 2014 June 26, 2014

Greetings AEA365! My name is Gretchen Biesecker, and I am the Vice President of Evaluation at City Year. City Year is an education-focused, nonprofit organization founded in 1988 that partners with public schools and teachers to keep students in school and on track to succeed. This year I competed in my first storytelling slam—an event …

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DVR TIG Week: Tony Fujs on Dataviz with the Grammar of Graphics: R you Ready?

Leave a Comment / Data Visualization and Reporting / June 25, 2014 June 21, 2014

Hello! I’m Tony Fujs, Director of Evaluation at the Latin American Youth Center, a DC based non-profit organization. Today, I want to share my experience using R and ggplot2 for data visualization. Ggplot2 is a great tool from the R toolbox (a package, in R lingo). It relies on the powerful Grammar of Graphics framework, …

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DVR TIG Week: Rakesh Mohan, Lance McCleve, Tony Grange, Bryon Welch, and Margaret Campbell on Sankey Diagrams: A Cool Tool for Explaining the Complex Flow of Resources in Large Organizations

4 Comments / Data Visualization and Reporting / June 24, 2014 June 21, 2014

We are Rakesh Mohan, Lance McCleve, Tony Grange, Bryon Welch, and Margaret Campbell of the Office of Performance Evaluations, an independent agency of the Idaho State Legislature. Last year, the Legislature asked us to explain how funds move through the Department of Health and Welfare—the agency with the state’s largest budget. Legislators, including budget committee …

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DVR TIG Week: Ann K. Emery on Dataviz2: Visualization and Reporting about the DVR TIG

4 Comments / Data Visualization and Reporting / June 23, 2014 June 23, 2014

Welcome! I’m Ann Emery, Co-Chair of the Data Visualization and Reporting Topical Interest Group (“DVR TIG”). It seems only fitting to tell you more about the DVR TIG through, well, data visualization and reporting! Some highlights: AEA has 48 topical interest groups. They specialize in everything from quantitative methods to advocacy evaluation to data visualization. …

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DVR TIG Week: Johanna Morariu on the DVR Logic Model & Introducing the DVR Week

3 Comments / Data Visualization and Reporting / June 22, 2014 June 22, 2014

Hey there! I’m Johanna Morariu, a Director of Innovation Network and the Co-Chair of the DVRTIG. DVR is the Data Visualization and Reporting TIG, and we work within the AEA community and through our evaluation work to improve the quality of communications through better data visualization and improved approaches to reporting evaluation findings. You could …

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Best of aea365: Sheila B Robinson on Being an AEA365 Sponsored Weeks Archaeologist!

Leave a Comment / Uncategorized / June 21, 2014 June 20, 2014

Hello! Sheila B. Robinson here, aea365’s Lead Curator and sometimes Saturday contributor. I originally composed this post in May of 2013, but feel it deserves another go as I’m feverishly queuing up some fabulous sponsored weeks for summer. Keep up with aea365 through weekly Headlines and Resources, the new and improved AEA website, and AEA newsletters. I work …

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