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How to promote your evaluation course by Steven E. Wallis & Bernadette Wright

2 Comments / Teaching of Evaluation / June 14, 2020

We’re Steven E. Wallis, PhD of FAST and Bernadette Wright, PhD of Meaningful Evidence. We recently teamed up to write Practical Mapping for Applied Research and Program Evaluation (SAGE). Based on that textbook, and our teaching experience, this post will talk about options for how to promote a course on evaluation.So you’ve made the bold …

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A Common Conflation: Standards And Guidelines by Jeffrey Hillman

2 Comments / Uncategorized / June 14, 2020

Hello fellow evaluators! My name is Jeffrey Hillman, and I am a Ph.D. candidate in the Interdisciplinary Ph.D. in Evaluation (IDPE) program at Western Michigan University and a member of the Guiding Principles Working Group. I have had the privilege of studying the standards, guiding principles, and evaluation competencies for several years. Most recently, my …

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What do you want to learn next? A quest for input by Sheila B Robinson

1 Comment / Uncategorized / June 6, 2020

Hello Readers! Sheila B Robinson here, in my role as Lead Curator for our association blog, sometimes Saturday contributor, AND member of the AEA Professional Development Working Group (PDWG). Lesson Learned: High quality professional development is essential. My first experiences with professional development happened more years ago than I care to admit. But, because many …

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NA TIG Week: Using a Needs Assessment Double Scale Survey Method to Pilot Test a Survey Instrument by Sue Hamann

1 Comment / Needs Assessment / May 30, 2020

I’m Sue Hamann, an evaluator for 40 years, and employed at the National Institutes of Health as a Health Scientist and Science Evaluation Officer.  Many people who are not trained in the analytic sciences and social research sciences are called upon to conduct evaluations.  For the last several years, I’ve tried to bring issues about …

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NA TIG Week: Images as Data for Needs Assessments and Evaluation by Madhawa “Mads” Palihapitiya

3 Comments / Needs Assessment / May 30, 2020

Hi! I’m Madhawa “Mads” Palihapitiya, an evaluator, researcher and teacher from UMass Boston who has been using digital images for program evaluation for over half-a-decade. It was the anthropologists, visual sociologists and arts-based researchers who first used photographs for research. Since then, the use of digital images has gained status in evaluation as an “authentic source” …

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NA TIG Week: Necessity and Sufficiency: A quick example by Ryan Watkins

1 Comment / Needs Assessment / May 30, 2020

I’m Ryan Watkins and I teach needs assessment at George Washington University and for The Evaluator’s Institute. Last year in AEA365, I introduced formulas for how we can determine the necessity and/or sufficiency of a desired result leading to other desired results – thus offering tools for quantifying needs (i.e., gaps in results).  This year I’m offering …

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NA TIG Week: After Action Reviews for Planning Future Needs: Never let a crisis go to waste by Maurya West Meiers

4 Comments / Needs Assessment / May 30, 2020

I’m Maurya West Meiers. I work at the World Bank as a Senior Evaluation Officer and am coauthor of A Guide to Assessing Needs: Essential Tools for Collecting Information, Making Decisions, and Achieving Development Results (free World Bank book). As the global community experiences COVID-19, there is much value in looking backwards as we plan ahead for our future activities …

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NA TIG Week: Improving the Validity of Data from Qualitative Methods Used in Needs Assessments by James W. Altschuld, Hsin-Ling (Sonya) Hung, & Yi-Fang

Leave a Comment / Needs Assessment / May 30, 2020

We’re James W. Altschuld, Hsin-Ling (Sonya) Hung, and Yi-Fang Lee from Ohio State, Virginia Commonwealth, and National Taiwan Normal Universities and have worked many years on needs assessments (NAs). We’re providing tips to enhance validity for data from qualitative techniques – Focus Group Interviews (FGIs), The Nominal Group Technique (NGT), and double scaled survey responses.  …

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NA TIG Week: Just-in-Time Community Engaged Needs Assessment: COVID-19 Redux by Lisle Hites

1 Comment / Needs Assessment / May 30, 2020

Welcome to the Needs Assessment TIG’s week on AEA 365! I’m Lisle Hites, Chair of the Needs Assessment TIG, Associate Professor in Community Medicine and Population Health at the University of Alabama. On behalf of all of us in the Needs Assessment TIG, I hope you enjoy this week’s blog entries and we look forward …

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Memorial Day Week: Defining Evaluation in the Military by Stephen Axelrad

2 Comments / Military and Veteran’s / May 23, 2020

Hello, my name is Stephen Axelrad – the founder and chair of the Military and Veteran Evaluation Topical Interest Group.  One of the reasons why I wanted to start this TIG was to broaden the military’s understanding of what program evaluation is and broaden program evaluator’s understandings of what the military community is.  While there …

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