We are Kaia Ambrose of CARE Canada and Simon Hearn of the Overseas Development Institute, UK and we’ll be facilitating a professional development workshop at this year’s AEA Conference to introduce Outcome Mapping (OM). We’d like to share with you our whistle-stop-tour of OM and how it can add value to your evaluations, drawing on …
I’m Apollo M Nkwake, a Research Associate Professor at Tulane University’s Disaster Resilience and Leadership Academy. I design monitoring and evaluation plans, conduct program evaluations and facilitate a graduate course in quantitative analysis of disaster resilience. Lessons learned: An elaborate design that explicates assumptions on which programs are premised, is essential for viable program evaluation. In …
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Hello, I am John Owen, Principal Fellow at the Centre for Program Evaluation in Melbourne Australia. For quite a while I have been interested in how evaluation can influence the quality of social policy and program delivery. The lesson I wish to convey is that, fundamentally, evaluation should be seen as a servant of good …
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I’m Jennifer Ann Morrow, a faculty member in Evaluation, Statistics, and Measurement at the University of Tennessee. I created a 12 Step process evaluators can follow to ensure their data is clean prior to conducting analyses. Hot Tip: Evaluators should follow these 12 steps prior to conducting analyses for evaluation reports: 1. Create a data …
Hi, I am Jim Van Haneghan, Professor of Professional Studies at the University of South Alabama. I am writing today about Nate Silver’s book The Signal and the Noise: Why Most Predictions Fail-But Some Don’t. It is an intriguing book about statistical prediction and “big data.” For those who have not read the book, it …
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Hello, I am Kerry Bruce, Director of Results and Measurement at Pact and I’m currently based in Madagascar and support Pact programs in Africa, Asia and Eastern Europe. In 2012 we started to roll out the use of mobile technology in our programs including evaluation. This third post in the series on how to get started with mobile phone technology …
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We are Anna Jo Perry a senior lecturer in Early Childhood Education at the Manukau Institute of Technology in Auckland New Zealand and Jens Hansen, Director of the Woodhill Park Research Retreat, a place that helps postgraduate thesis candidates to successfully complete their research. Although AEA365 contributions often focus on conducting evaluations across a range …
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Greetings from beautiful Boise, Idaho! We are Bryon Welch (principal evaluator) and Rakesh Mohan (director) at the Idaho Legislature’s Office of Performance Evaluations. Working for a state legislature, we are always trying to come up with different ideas on how to effectively present our analysis. Because our reports are used by policymakers whose attention is …
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My name is Leah Christina Neubauer. I am the President of the Chicagoland Evaluation Association and the Program Manager and an Instructor in the MPH Program at DePaul University. Today, I am writing to extend three updates from the Practice committee of the AEA Public Statement on Cultural Competence in Evaluation Dissemination Working Group. We …
I am Melanie Hwalek, CEO of SPEC Associates and the LGBT TIG’s representative to the AEA Public Statement on Cultural Competence in Evaluation Dissemination Working Group. I accepted responsibility for spearheading the Policy Subgroup of the Workgroup. In this role, I’m responsible for coordinating our Workgroup’s efforts to infuse the Cultural Competency Statement into policy …
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