I am Mónica Ruiz-Casares, Program Chair of the Youth Focused Evaluation TIG. I am Associate Professor in the Division of Social and Transcultural Psychiatry at McGill University and Researcher at the Sherpa University Institute in Montreal. I am also member of the International and Canadian Child Rights Partnership (ICCRP), a group of academic and research centers, non-government …
I am Betsy Olson, Extension Educator at the University of Minnesota Center for Youth Development. I have been working in youth development for very nearly 10 years and yet young people still surprise me every day. Most recently, I was surprised at the depth of response I received from an open ended online survey question. …
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Hi there! My name is Lindsay Anderson. I am a PhD student at the University of Minnesota studying Organizational Leadership and Policy Development with an emphasis in Evaluation Studies. Having worked in social work before returning to school, I hold a high value on the importance of relationships and the notion that working together leads …
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EEE TIG Week: Tom Archibald on Whose Extension Counts? Hello, I’m Tom Archibald, Assistant Professor and Extension Specialist in the Department of Agricultural, Leadership, and Community Education at Virginia Tech. Debates about what counts as credible evidence in program evaluation and applied social science research have been ongoing for at least 20 years. Rad Resource: …
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I am Teresa McCoy, Assistant Director at the University of Maryland Extension (UME). I was hired 10 years ago with responsibility for evaluation and assessment across all program areas of agriculture, family and consumer sciences, environment and natural resources, and 4-H youth development. There was not a lot of evaluation knowledge and practice in the …
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My name is Chris Okafor and I am a Research for Development Coordinator at the International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA), Bukavu, DRCongo (DRC). I would like to briefly share a tool we are using to assess farmers’ knowledge gain during training. I am currently coordinating an integrated crops/livestock development project in DRCongo, a position …
My name is Chelsea Hetherington and I’m an Evaluation Specialist with Michigan State University Extension. One of the many benefits of Extension work is that we reach people in local communities all around the country, but we also have the connections and resources of a big university. Several MSU Extension youth programs specifically focus on …
Hello! My name is Mary Arnold, I am a professor and 4-H Youth Development Specialist at Oregon State University. In my Extension specialist role, I get to work in that liminal space between research and practice. In this space I spend a great deal of time translating research into effective youth development practice in 4-H …
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Greetings! We are Alda Norris, Evaluation Specialist at University of Alaska Fairbanks School of Natural Resources and Extension and Kendra Lewis, 4-H Evaluation Coordinator at University of California, Agriculture and Natural Resources. We are the Chair and Secretary, respectively, of the Extension Education Evaluation Topical Interest Group (EEE TIG). This TIG offers professional development for …
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We are Julie Poncelet, Kim Sabo-Flores, and Kai Fierle-Hedrick with Algorhythm, a company that builds solutions to ignite ongoing learning and drive impact in the nonprofit sector. We recently conducted a participatory evaluation with the Nellie Mae Education Foundation that focused on the impact of its Amplifying Student Voice and Leadership (ASVL) grant fund: a …
