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Memorial Day Week: The Fort Bragg Evaluation: A military setting that created evaluation history by Len Bickman

Leave a Comment / Military and Veteran’s / May 28, 2020 May 23, 2020

I am Len Bickman, AEA Past-President, Professor Emeritus, Vanderbilt University, and currently Research Professor, Center for Children and Families, Florida International University and President, Feedback Research Institute. Today, I am offering lessons from a quarter-century old evaluation widely known as the Fort Bragg Evaluation. I examined the effectiveness of mental health services delivered in a …

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Memorial Day Week: Community-Based Participatory Research in the Military: Lessons Learned by Stephen Axelrad

Leave a Comment / Military and Veteran’s / May 27, 2020 May 23, 2020

Hello, my name is Stephen Axelrad – the founder and chair of the Military and Veteran Evaluation Topical Interest Group. I am posting this content on community-based participatory research in the military on behalf of a colleague. U.S. Service Members are frequently asked to take surveys from both local installations as well as the Department …

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Memorial Day Week: Use of evaluation data viz in military contexts by Lara Hilton

Hello! I’m Lara Hilton, a behavioral scientist who has conducted program evaluation in military health settings for the last 10 years. I am excited to share a few examples of how the military utilizes data visualization for evaluation and how those applications inform evaluation and more broadly impact public health outcomes. First, here’s an interesting …

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Memorial Day Week: The After-Action Review: Military Origins and Universal Applications by Stephen Axelrad

1 Comment / Military and Veteran’s / May 25, 2020 May 30, 2020

Hello, my name is Stephen Axelrad – the founder and chair of the Military and Veteran Evaluation Topical Interest Group. This post is dedicated to the After-Action Review, a formative evaluation technique that has its origins in the military but can be applied in many different contexts. Military Origins The After-Action Review is a process …

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Memorial Day Week: Evaluation Reflections by Michael Quinn Patton

Leave a Comment / Uncategorized / May 24, 2020 May 23, 2020

I’m Michael Quinn Patton director of Utilization-Focused Evaluation. I’m curating AEA365 in conjunction with the Memorial Day holiday in the USA which officially honors those who died in military service. It originated after the Civil War (1861-1865) in which 750,000 soldiers died and slavery was ended. It became an official federal holiday in 1971 and …

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IDPE Week: Why bother with graduate education in evaluation? An alumni perspective by Amy M. Gullickson

3 Comments / Graduate Student and New Evaluators / May 22, 2020 May 18, 2020

Hi! I’m Amy M. Gullickson, 2010 IDPE graduate and Acting Co-Director and Senior Lecturer, University of Melbourne Centre for Program Evaluation, Melbourne, VIC, Australia. One of the challenges to graduate education in evaluation is the Dunning-Kruger effect. Because evaluation is an everyday activity and a professional activity, and all the other kinds of activities in …

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IDPE Week: Why I love teaching interdisciplinary evaluation by Michael Harnar

1 Comment / Graduate Student and New Evaluators, Teaching of Evaluation / May 21, 2020 May 16, 2020

My name is Michael Harnar. I have been in the evaluation discipline for about 16 years and for almost 3 years an assistant professor in the Interdisciplinary PhD in Evaluation program at Western Michigan University. Today I want to talk about what I like about teaching in an interdisciplinary program. By my very nature, I am attracted to …

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IDPE Week: From Evaluation Practitioner to Evaluation Scholar by Amy Jersild

7 Comments / Graduate Student and New Evaluators / May 20, 2020 May 16, 2020

Greetings! My name is Amy Jersild, Doctoral Scholar in the Interdisciplinary Program in Evaluation (IDPE) at Western Michigan University (WMU), and an evaluator working in the international development sector. I entered the program in August 2018 following four years of teaching evaluation in a MA program in sustainable development at World Learning’s School for International …

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IDPE Week: The Journal of Multi-Disciplinary Evaluation, A True Evaluation Asset by Aaron Kates

2 Comments / Graduate Student and New Evaluators / May 19, 2020 May 16, 2020

Hi, my name is Aaron Kates, a doctoral student in the Interdisciplinary PhD in Evaluation (IDPE) at Western Michigan University. The life of a doctoral student is many things. It can at once be that of a pupil, a teacher, an expert, a researcher, email sender, email receiver, coffee maker, coffee drinker, early riser, night …

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IDPE: Seventeen Years of Doctoral Education in Evaluation by Chris L. Coryn

1 Comment / Graduate Student and New Evaluators, Teaching of Evaluation / May 18, 2020 May 16, 2020

Greetings! I am Chris Coryn, Professor of Evaluation and Director of the Interdisciplinary Ph.D. in Evaluation (IDPE) at Western Michigan University. The IDPE is the oldest, and perhaps only, true doctoral program in evaluation (one that is not a ‘specialty’ or ‘concentration’ in education psychology, or other traditional disciplines, for instance). The program was developed …

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