Hello! I am Harlan Luxenberg, the Chief Operating Officer of Professional Data Analysts, Inc. (PDA), a small firm in Minneapolis specializing in public health evaluation. Over the years we have worked on multiple projects where we needed to do one or more of the following: report to a diverse set of stakeholders about program outcomes …
My name is Chris Lysy, I am a Research Analyst at Westat, the creator of Eval Central, and cartoonist at freshspectrum. You can also find me on twitter (@clysy). At first cartooning was just a hobby, but over time I’ve started to discover the utility of a well designed cartoon. The right cartoons can be …
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My name is Angie Ficek and I am a Program Evaluator at Professional Data Analysts, Inc., a small firm in Minneapolis, MN specializing in public health evaluation. Last year as I was writing a report, I had the burning desire to wrap a paragraph of text around a smaller chart. This is usually easy to …
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I’m Clara Hagens. I work for Catholic Relief Services (CRS) as the Regional Technical Advisor for Monitoring, Evaluation, Accountability and Learning (MEAL) in Asia. I’d like to share with you a resource pack we have developed to support teams to develop and implement monitoring and evaluation (M&E) systems throughout different phases of an emergency response. …
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Hi. We are Kathy Muhr, Aniko Laszlo and Alexis Henry from UMass Medical School’s Center for Health Policy and Research. Through Work Without Limits, a Massachusetts network of employers and providers that aims to increase employment for people with disabilities, we evaluate and promote programs, policies, and practices related to recruitment, retention, accommodation, and career …
My name is Linda Meyer and I am an applied developmental psychology graduate student at Claremont Graduate University. I am going to provide you with a few basic tips to keep in mind as you are planning an educational evaluation with English Language Learners (ELLs) in PK-12. Hot Tip: Find out how students were labeled …
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My name is Tanya Ostrogorsky, Assistant Vice Provost for Assessment and Evaluation at Oregon Health & Science University, and I’ve been involved with Oregon Program Evaluators Network since 2002. I ‘grew up’ studying research methods and data analysis and looking back I was a functioning as an evaluator before I knew what that meant. It …
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I am Elizabeth O’Neill, Program Evaluator for Oregon’s State Unit on Aging and President-Elect for the Oregon Program Evaluators Network. I found myself on this unlikely route as an evaluator starting as a nonprofit program manager. As I witnessed the amazing dedication for producing community-based work, I wanted to know that the effort was substantiated. …
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My name is Kelly Smith, and I’m an evaluator, policy analyst and economist at ECONorthwest, a consulting firm in Portland, Oregon. I’ve been a devoted member of OPEN (Oregon Program Evaluators Network), an AEA affiliate, since I was introduced to it in graduate school in 2007. OPEN works hard to provide our members with a …
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My name is Adrienne Zell and I work as an internal evaluator for the Oregon Clinical and Translational Research Institute, an organization that provides services to biomedical researchers at Oregon Health and Science University. I also volunteer as the executive director of a small nonprofit, Impactivism, which provides evaluation advice to community organizations. I have …
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