My name is Christine Frank and I am an independent Canadian evaluator. I have a couple of questions for you. Do your reports intrigue your audience or send them for coffee? Do people grasp your message easily? Although I am best known as a program evaluator, I have also taught courses on business communications and …
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I am Ricardo Wilson-Grau an evaluator based in Rio de Janeiro but working internationally. Over the past 9 years, co-evaluators and I have developed the Outcome Harvesting tool while performing two dozen developmental, formative and summative evaluations. Half of these evaluations were of international social change networks. The other half of the evaluations were of …
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My name is Felicia Sullivan and I research youth civic engagement at the Center for Information and Research on Civic Learning and Engagement (CIRCLE), a non-partisan research center at Tufts University’s Tisch College of Citizenship & Public Service. Building youth-focused evaluation strategies and working with practitioners are important ways CIRCLE links academic research to what …
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We are Julie Poncelet, Catherine Borgman-Arboleda, and Jorge Arboleda of Action Evaluation Collaborative, independent consultants who use evaluation to strengthen social change. We want to share our experiences using participatory video (PV) in evaluations with youth. PV is a dynamic, powerful approach whereby youth use video to capture everything from their stories of change to …
Hello, this is Jessica Jerney from the Extension Center for Youth Development at the University of Minnesota. I recently served as Project Coordinator for the Innovations on Youth Roles in Evaluation and Assessment project. This initiative included a learning cohort, symposia speakers’ series (featuring Kim Sabo Flores and Katie Richards-Schuster), and applied research. As a …
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Hi, we are Anne Gleason and Miranda Yates from the Program Evaluation and Planning Department at Good Shepherd Services in New York City and we would like to share some tools we put together for a youth research camp. Two summers ago, we partnered with youth in one of our afterschool programs to conduct research …
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Our names are Jessica Manta-Meyer, Jocelyn Atkins and Saili Willis and we are evaluators at Public Profit, an evaluation firm with a special focus on out-of-school time programs for youth. We usually evaluate networks of after school programs as a whole (some of which serve more than 20,000 youth, where a survey is indeed one …
Hello, my name is Kim Sabo Flores and I am David White. We are honored to serve as co-chairs of the Youth Focused Evaluation Topical Interest Group (YFE TIG). As we prepare for the 2014 conference and our annual business meeting, we have to acknowledge how truly remarkable it is that a loosely knit group …
My name is Cheryl Peters and I am the Evaluation Specialist for Michigan State University Extension, working across all program areas. Measuring collective impact of agricultural programs in a state with diverse commodities is challenging. Many states have an abundance of natural resources like fresh water sources, minerals, and woodlands. Air, water and soil quality …
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Hi! This is Laura Downey with Mississippi State University Extension Service. In my job as an evaluation specialist, I commonly receive requests to help colleagues develop a program logic model. I am always thankful when I receive such a request early in the program development process. So, I was delighted a few weeks ago when …
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