Hi, I’m Siri Scott, and I work as a Graduate Assistant with the University of Minnesota Extension. Conducting interviews with youth is one way to consider gathering information for program improvement, especially when you want to bring youth voice into your improvement process. While more time intensive than doing a survey, interviews will provide you …
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Howdy! I am Kevin Andrews, a program specialist at Texas A&M AgriLife Extension Service. In addition to my Extension duties, I co-teach a graduate evaluation course at Texas A&M University. I came across a post from March about students partnering with community agencies to apply their evaluation skills. I’d like to build upon Dr. Brun’s …
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Greetings! My name is Suzanne Le Menestrel and I am a National Program Leader for Youth Development Research at the 4-H National Headquarters, National Institute of Food and Agriculture, U.S. Department of Agriculture. 4-H is a national youth development organization serving 6 million youth throughout the country. We partner with the nation’s Cooperative Extension system …
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My name is Melissa Cater, and I am an assistant professor and evaluation specialist at Louisiana State University AgCenter. I am also serving as Chair of the AEA Extension Education Evaluation Topical Interest Group (EEE-TIG) this year. The EEE-TIG provides a professional development home for Extension professionals who are interested in program evaluation; we also …
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Hello! We are Stacy Johnson and Cami Connell from the Improve Group. At Evaluation 2013, we had the opportunity to present on our experiences using a unique mixed methods approach to collecting data. Your data collection strategy has the potential to seriously impact your evaluation. You might ask yourself questions like: How do we make …
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I am Megan Greeson, an Assistant Professor of Clinical/Community Psychology at DePaul University. I conduct collaborative, utilization-focused program evaluations with community-based organizations and I also teach a graduate seminar course in Program Evaluation. I am Adrienne Adams, an Assistant Professor of Ecological-Community Psychology and Program Evaluation at Michigan State University. I use collaborative evaluation approaches …
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Hello, I am Samuel Otoo, manager of the Capacity Development and Results unit at the World Bank Institute (WBI). Since 2009, our team has been developing a body of knowledge around the results of capacity development initiatives. This work is built around the Capacity Development Results Framework (CDRF), and focuses on capacity development as a …
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Greetings from the University of Chicago! We are Courtney Heppner and Sarah Rand, Associate Project Directors for Research and Evaluation at the Center for Elementary Mathematics and Science Education (CEMSE) at the University of Chicago. We will be presenting at AEA’s Annual Conference in DC about producing online evaluation reports. Sarah has blogged about online …
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Hi, We are Teresa Doksum and Sean Owen, from the Abt Associates Institutional Review Board (IRB). Teresa is a health services researcher and IRB Chair. Sean is an information security expert and Director of Abt’s Client Cybersecurity Center. We review large-scale evaluations of government programs in the fields of health, education, social policy, housing, and …
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Hello colleagues. My name is Susan Lowes and I am currently Director of Research and Evaluation at the Institute for Learning Technologies at Teachers College, Columbia University. One of my challenges is to make the evaluation process interesting to those being evaluated so I am always searching for assessments that go beyond surveys and interviews. …
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