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Cultural Competence Week: Kenneth Kelty on AEA Student Travel Support Winners: Reflection and Discussion on Cultivating Cultural Competence in the Field of Evaluation

1 Comment / Disabilities and Underrepresented Populations / November 13, 2013 November 9, 2013

Hi, I’m Kenneth Kelty (with assistance from Seb Prohn*), a senior in Western Carolina University’s University Participant Program. I have intellectual disability (ID) and autism. I was a co-evaluator on a project this year where we looked at improving social inclusion for students with ID on my campus. I earned an AEA student travel award …

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Cultural Competence Week: Osman Ozturgut, Tamara Bertrand Jones, and Cindy Crusto on Cultural Competence in Evaluation Dissemination Working Group: Teaching in the 21st Century

Leave a Comment / Teaching of Evaluation / November 12, 2013 November 9, 2013

Hi, we are Osman Ozturgut, assistant professor, University of the Incarnate Word, Tamara Bertrand Jones, assistant professor, Florida State University, and Cindy Crusto, associate professor, Yale School of Medicine. We are members of the AEA Public Statement on Cultural Competence in Evaluation Dissemination Working Group. We’d like to update you on our conference session. The …

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Cultural Competence Week: Rupu Gupta, Dominica McBride and Leah C. Neubauer on Critical Self-Reflection and Cultural Competence: From Theory to Practice

Leave a Comment / Uncategorized / November 11, 2013 November 9, 2013

Hello, we are Rupu Gupta, Dominica McBride and Leah C. Neubauer, members of the AEA Public Statement on Cultural Competence Dissemination Working Group. At AEA 2013, we participated in the Birds of a Feather session Critical Self-Reflection and Cultural Competence: From Theory to Practice with five others to learn from each other’s experiences in evaluation settings. We’d like to share some …

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Cultural Competence Week: Dominica McBride on AEA 2013 and Spreading the Word on Cultural Competence

1 Comment / Multiethnic Issues in Evaluation / November 10, 2013 November 9, 2013

Hi, I’m Dominica McBride, CEO of Become, Inc. and a member of the AEA Public Statement on Cultural Competence in Evaluation Dissemination Working Group. The working group is charged with spreading the word about the statement and helping evaluators integrate the information from the statement into practice, teaching, policy, etc. At this year’s conference, we …

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Kim Firth Leonard on How I use Twitter as a Professional Development Resource

9 Comments / Uncategorized / November 6, 2013 November 2, 2013

Hi! My name is Kim Firth Leonard (@KimFLeonard). I have been working in program evaluation and/or higher education assessment for about as long as Twitter has been around, but only joined the fray about a year ago. I believe Twitter can be a rich professional development resource – this post is meant to help fellow …

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Silvana Bialosiewicz and Kelly Murphy on Do your measures measure up?

Leave a Comment / Quantitative Methods: Theory and Design / November 5, 2013 November 2, 2013

Hello! We are Silvana Bialosiewicz and Kelly Murphy from Claremont Graduate University. Working as Senior Research Associates at the Claremont Evaluation Center, we have often been tasked with analyzing large quantitative databases and drawing conclusions about program effectiveness based on our results. Today, we’d like to share some hot tips about pesky sources of bias …

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Linda Cabral and Judy Savageau on Improve Your Surveys by Conducting Cognitive Interviews

1 Comment / Qualitative Methods / November 4, 2013 November 2, 2013

We are Linda Cabral and Judy Savageau from the University of Massachusetts Medical School’s Center for Health Policy and Research. All of our projects involve some type of data collection, sometimes in the form of a survey. In order to get high quality survey data, you need to ensure that your respondents are interpreting questions …

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Siobhan Cooney on Effectively Evaluating Teacher Professional Development

Leave a Comment / Prek-12 Educational Evaluation / November 3, 2013 November 2, 2013

Greetings! I’m Siobhan Cooney and I conduct program evaluations and applied research for the College Board. Today I’d like to share with you some things I’ve learned about evaluating professional development (PD) programs for teachers. Teacher PD is currently a critical component of many education reform efforts, demanding a substantial investment of public dollars. This …

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IC Week: Jan Upton on The Independent Consultant Life Cycle

Leave a Comment / Independent Consulting / November 1, 2013 October 26, 2013

Hello! I’m Jan Upton and have over 25 years of consulting experience; the past 13 spent creating and running Institutional Research Consultants, Ltd. (IRC). Below are lessons for each business life cycle stage that I wished I had known when I started out, and recently learned ones. Lesson Learned: Inception: Evaluation has a wonderful culture …

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