Hi, I am Susanne Harnett, evaluator for the Arts Achieve project in New York City (NYC), which is funded through two US DOE i3 and AEMDD grants. Arts Achieve involves a partnership between the NYC Department of Education and five arts organizations based in NYC. Arts Achieve seeks to improve student arts achievement through the …
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Welcome to Arts, Culture, and Audiences Topical Interest Group (ACA TIG) week with a focus on evaluating arts education! My name is Patricia Moore Shaffer of the Shaffer Evaluation Group. I am a former arts educator turned evaluator. As educators and policymakers look for alternatives to standardized, multiple-choice tests, I’m delighted to see a growing …
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Hello! I’m Kathy McKnight, Principal Director of Research, Center for Educator Effectiveness at Pearson. Today I completed my annual 2-day introductory workshop on Quantitative Methods, which I’ve offered at AEA’s annual conference every year since….well, I’ve lost track. Over the years, I’ve observed a lot of evaluators who participate in my workshop, hungry to learn …
Hello and kia ora, folks! I’m Jane Davidson, and I’m one of the pre-conference workshop facilitators at this year’s AEA conference in Washington DC. Right now I just wrapped up Day 1 of a 2-day workshop called Actionable Evaluation: Getting succinct answers to the most important questions. Wow, we have great group in there, and …
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I’m Sheila B. Robinson, aea365’s current Lead Volunteer Curator, and a huge Stephanie Evergreen fan. Rad Resource: I’m thrilled to report that SAGE Publications just released Presenting Data Effectively: Communicating Your Findings for Maximum Impact. The book is already a success, as it is sold out on Amazon (at the time of this writing), and …
Greetings. My name is Michael Quinn Patton and I’ve been conducting pre-conference workshops every year since the American Evaluation Association (AEA) was established. (Well, I did miss 1989 when the earthquake in San Francisco led to canceling the workshops.) Over the years I’ve found that the participants in my workshops are increasingly from all over …
My name is Michelle Mandolia and I work in the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s Evaluation Support Division. At last year’s conference, I attended Stephanie Evergreen’s three Potent Presentations Initiative sessions on Message, Design, and Delivery (now available as a 3-part webinar series or as PDFs at http://p2i.eval.org/). P2i has been a game changer for me. …
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Greetings aea365 readers! I’m Sheila B. Robinson, Lead Curator of my favorite evaluation blog, aea365. As I’ve written many times before, I’ve claimed the title of “aea365’s biggest fan.” Not only have I been an avid reader myself, but a frequent contributor as well. In fact, my first piece of published writing was indeed an …
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I am Vardhani Ratnala and work as a freelance consultant in Monitoring and Evaluation. In this post, I would like share my experience of presenting evaluation findings. Following an evaluation field visit, the findings are shared with the project management/implementing team. Quite often, when the findings are negative, it ruffles egos and leads to a …
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Hello, fellow aea365ers! My name is Carla Hillerns and I manage research projects in the Center for Health Policy & Research’s Office of Survey Research at the University of Massachusetts Medical School. Evaluation pumps me up because it offers the opportunity to discover ways to improve processes and results. To get there, my work relies …
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