Vidhya Shanker here and I serve on the Local Arrangements Committee. Minnesota’s Scandinavian history is common knowledge, but our state is also home to the largest urban indigenous population in the country. Beyond a rich African American history, we also have the country’s largest Hmong and Somali populations and a growing Latin@ population. The Committee …
I’m Stacie Toal and I started my own evaluation consulting firm in 2007. In the fifteen years prior to that, I had worked mostly in higher education in either paid roles or as a graduate student with a research assistantship. This summer, while preparing for a panel on Independent Consulting I participated in for Minnesota …
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Hello! My name is Alex (Chi-Keung) Chan and I am currently a Senior Lecturer at the Hong Kong Shue Yan University and a partner of A Data-Driven Consulting Group, LLP based in Minnesota. Prior to that, I was a Senior Evaluation and Research Fellow at the Minneapolis Public Schools. I have been adopting the value-added …
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Hi, I am Katherine Drake, Evaluation Specialist for the Saint Paul Public Schools, an urban district serving a diverse community of 38,000 students. In my role as an evaluator, I regularly encounter requests for tests scores and other data on our students. Hot Tips: Identify a contact person in the district office rather than approach …
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My name is Pat Seppanen. I’ve worked as an evaluator now for more than 20 years. A good part of my practice has centered on evaluating complex change—initiatives designed to address human needs and community problems that do not fit into established program and policy categories. If concepts like non-linearity, emergence, adaption, uncertainty, and coevolution …
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Hi. My name is A. Rae Clementz and in addition to being the co-chair of the Graduate Student and New Evaluator TIG, I am also a techie. I believe technology is of value when it helps us accomplish our goals in ways that are better, easier, and/or cheaper. I have evaluated several educational technology integration …
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My name is Lindsay Demers. I am an evaluator and quantitative methodologist at TERC in Cambridge, MA. I have worked as the lead data analyst on several projects at TERC, Lesley University, Boston College and Brandeis University. Hot Tip: You must calculate inter-rater reliability! Calculating inter-rater reliability (IRR) is of the utmost importance when using …
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My name is Melissa Cater, and I am an assistant professor and evaluation specialist at Louisiana State University AgCenter. “At its most fundamental, visual research draws on our basic capacity to interpret the world through our sense of sight.” Christopher J. Pole Visual evaluation methods leverage the power of art, photography and video as …
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Greetings! We are Manuel Voelkle from the Max Planck Institute for Human Development in Berlin (Germany) and Han Oud from Radboud University in Nijmegen (The Netherlands). We are both interested in longitudinal data analysis and are trying to advance statistical methods for the analysis of change, as well as to improve their use and communication. …
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Hello, my name is Jeanne Hubelbank. I am an independent evaluation consultant. Most of my work is in higher education where, most recently, I help faculty evaluate their classes, develop proposals, and evaluate professional development programs offered to public school teachers. In my practice I find that many clients think of evaluation as pre and …
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