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SW TIG Week: Carl Brun on Teaching Evaluation to Social Work/Human Service Students

3 Comments / Social Work, Teaching of Evaluation / February 9, 2015

Greetings!  I am Carl Brun, a social worker turned professor turned evaluator.  I have taught in the social work department at Wright State University in Dayton, OH for 21 years. I teach evaluation in every research methods course I teach, whether it be in a human services course or an undergraduate or graduate social work …

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SW TIG Week: Carolyn Sullins and Ladel Lewis on Cultural Competence in the Evaluation of Community Programs

Leave a Comment / Social Work / February 9, 2015

Hello! We are Carolyn Sullins and Ladel Lewis of Meaningful Evidence, LLC and we have years of experience evaluating children’s mental health systems of care.  These evaluations were challenging because attention to local communities’ cultures was crucial – but so was adherence to a national battery of questionnaires and to local regulations.  The community vs. …

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SW TIG Week: Kathy Bolland on Ethics in Evaluation and in Social Professions

1 Comment / Social Work / December 2, 2018

Hello!  I am Kathy Bolland, like many of you, a wearer of many hats.  I am an administrator and faculty member in a school of social work, where my research focuses on impoverished youth at risk and on assessment in higher education.  I also evaluate educational projects and social programs.  I am a past AEA …

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SW TIG Week: Alicia McCoy on How to Engage Social Workers in Evaluation

Leave a Comment / Data Visualization and Reporting, Social Work / February 9, 2015

Hello, my name is Alicia McCoy and I am the Research and Evaluation Manager at Family Life in Melbourne, Australia.  Family Life is a nonprofit community organization that supports families, children and young people.  A big part of my job is ensuring our practitioners (both social workers and other human service professionals) value and participate …

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SW TIG Week: Karen Anderson on How to Promote Evaluation at Meetings That are Not Evaluation Focused

Leave a Comment / Social Work / February 9, 2015

Hi there, my name is Karen Anderson and I’m the Continuous Quality Improvement and Evaluation Coordinator at Families First in Atlanta, Georgia. In my spare time, I enjoy working with community groups and organizations that do not have evaluation capacity. It’s always a wonderful learning experience for me, as well as for the group or …

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SW TIG Week: Katrina Brewsaugh on Why You Want a Social Worker on Your Evaluation Team

2 Comments / Social Work, Systems in Evaluation / February 9, 2015

I’m Katrina Brewsaugh, Senior Associate with the Annie E. Casey Foundation.  As part of Social Work TIG week on aea365, I’d like to tell you why social workers are an asset to an evaluation team.  Evaluation may not be the first thing that comes to mind when you think of social work, but the training …

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Sheila B. Robinson on the Annual Call for Proposals – Evaluation 2014

Leave a Comment / Uncategorized / March 1, 2014

Hi! I’m Sheila B. Robinson, aea365’s Lead Curator and sometimes Saturday contributor.  I’ve been a conference proposal reviewer for AEA’s annual conference for several years now, and always find it a wonderful learning experience and opportunity to get involved and contribute. As Susan Kistler, AEA’s Executive Director Emeritus, posted last year, “It is a bit like being …

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Shirah Hecht on System Mapping for Research Design

Leave a Comment / Uncategorized / March 1, 2014

Hello, I’m Shirah Hecht, Ph.D,  Program Evaluator with Academic Technology Services within the Harvard University Info Tech area.  Here is a simple “trick” for beginning to develop a research design. I call this “system mapping.”  You may connect it to stakeholder analysis or concept mapping, since it blends the two in a way – but …

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Jindra Cekan on Furthering Community Self-sustainability of Our Projects

3 Comments / Evaluation Use, Research on Evaluation / February 23, 2014

Hi, I am Jindra Cekan, PhD, an independent evaluator with 25 years of international development fieldwork, at www.ValuingVoices.com. What if we saw our true clients as project participants and wanted the return on investment of projects be maximally sustained? How would this change how we evaluate, capture, learn together? Lesson Learned: Billions of dollars of …

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Neha Karkara on the Evaluation Advocacy Toolkit

Leave a Comment / Uncategorized / February 23, 2014

My name is Neha Karkara, and I’m an independent consultant working with UN agencies. I specialize in developing and implementing human-rights based advocacy, knowledge management and communications strategies. Recently I worked with EvalPartners to develop a resource that will help civil society organizations (CSOs), Voluntary Organizations for Professional Evaluation (VOPEs), governments and other development partners …

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