Hi! I’m Mary Arnold, a program evaluator with the Extension 4-H Youth Development program at Oregon State University. This AEA 365 entry kicks off a week of postings by members of the Extension Education Evaluation TIG, which is starting its 32nd year! Extension is the outreach arm of the public Land-Grant universities and its mission …
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Greetings! My name is Jesse Burns, and I am part of the OL-ECB TIG leadership. Outside of AEA, I am an independent consultant that works with a variety of organizations to design, implement and evaluate new products and services. As an independent consultant, I have learned that managing the uncertainty with innovation projects is critical …
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My name is Bonnie Richards, and as a professional with both experience and an academic background in Evaluation and Organizational Behavior, I have had the opportunity to facilitate the evaluation and learning process with stakeholders in many different industries. Although my experiences have been unique across projects, I have noticed a common thread that ties …
Hi, I’m Joe Bauer, the director of Survey Research in the Statistics & Evaluation Center at the American Cancer Society – National Home Office in Atlanta, Georgia. I have been working as an internal evaluator for almost seven years, in one of the most dynamic, challenging, and rewarding positions that I have ever had. Lesson …
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Hello! My name is Laura Keene, owner of Keene Insights, a one-woman consulting shop based in sunny Los Angeles, California. Over the past nine years, I’ve worked as both an internal and an external evaluator in a variety of settings. For many organizations, especially smaller nonprofits, working with me is their first introduction to evaluation. …
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I’m Jeff Sheldon from Claremont Graduate University and today I’m sharing the Readiness for Organizational Learning and Evaluation (ROLE) instrument because I think it’s a vastly under-utilized resource that evaluation practitioners should consider when they want to find out whether an organization is a learning organization or ready for an evaluation. In my own research …
I’m Joseph Bauer, Chair of the Organizational Learning-Evaluation Capacity Building Topical Interest Group (OL-ECB TIG), here with Allison Titcomb, ALTA Consulting/ Arizona Evaluation Network (AZENET) /Local Affiliate Collaborative (LAC). We have prepared this post as a model activity that reflects joint purposes of the OL-ECB and the LAC. The OL-ECB TIG and the Local Affiliate …
I’m Marybeth Neal, I am a cultural anthropologist that uses ethnographic methods to engage stakeholders in creating their own ongoing systems of evaluation. This summer I had the absolutely delightful experience working with a brilliant group of teens and young adults who train both youth and adult members of social change organizations on how to …
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My name is Stella SiWan Zimmerman and I am the President of ACET Inc., an evaluation firm located in Minneapolis, Minnesota. I’ve been asked to contribute to a blog on Halloween. What a great opportunity to focus on techniques evaluators can use to take the fear out of the evaluation process. The following tips can …
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I’m Reid Zimmerman, a thirty-year veteran of the nonprofit sector in Minnesota and a member of the faculty at Hamline and Capella Universities where I teach intro to research and evaluation courses in graduate nonprofit programs. Even though my PhD is in Organizational Development and Effectiveness, I am often called, as a Certified Fund Raising …
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