Cheers aea365 readers! My name is Alex da Silva from Brazil. While I may be able to undertake analyses in SAS, I find myself turning more frequently to Microsoft Excel because so many people can then use it. If I set up something in Excel I can be more confident that my collaborators are going …
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Hello, this is Allison Chapman and Jia Ma, PhD students in the Assessment and Evaluation Group (AEG) at Queen’s University, Kingston, Canada. We are particularly interested in the challenges, impacts, and evaluations of large-scale assessments. Evaluative inquiry contributes to the personal and professional growth of individuals within organizations through the process of exploring individuals’ values, …
My name is Laura Cody, and I am a Community Health Specialist at the Regional Center for Healthy Communities in Cambridge, MA. We work with many substance abuse prevention coalitions helping them build on their strengths and reduce underage drinking in their communities. I will describe a process we used with a group of youth …
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My name is Alberta Mirambeau and I am an ORISE fellow on the Evaluation and Program Effectiveness Team in the Division for Heart Disease and Stroke Prevention at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. I provide evaluation technical assistance to state-funded programs that implement heart disease and stroke prevention activities. Our team uses the …
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This post is brought to you by Alyssa Na’im of the National Science Foundation’s ITEST Learning Resource Center at the Education Development Center, and several members of the ITEST Community of Practice: Angelique Tucker Blackmon, Innovative Learning Concepts, LLC; Araceli M. Ortiz, Sustainable Future, Inc.; Carol Nixon, Edvantia, Inc.; Pam Van Dyk, Evaluation Resources, LLC; and Karen …
My name is Oscar Figueroa and I serve as a professor-researcher at Colegio de Postgraduados Montecillo Campus in Mexico. In 2005 a number staff members of Colegio had the opportunity to attend a workshop with Dr. Fetterman in empowerment evaluation, since then I have been taking advantage of the empowerment tools and methodology to achieve …
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Good Morning! Susan Kistler here, AEA’s Executive Director. We’ve had a number of posts talking about creating and using word clouds, primarily in terms of creating them through wordle. Word clouds take a set of text and create a cloud of the most frequent words in that text with word size within the cloud based …
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I am Abraham Wandersman, past-president of the American Psychological Association Division 27 – Community Psychology. I am also a professor of psychology at the University of South Carolina at Columbia. I have worked with David Fetterman and a long list of students and colleagues over the years on empowerment evaluation issues, articles, and books for …
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Hello wonderful evaluators! I’m Susan Kistler, AEA’s Executive Director, and I contribute (almost) each Saturday’s aea365 post. Today, I wanted to thank our CPE colleagues for great posts this week (and – a preview for tomorrow – a bonus post form Abraham Wandersman) and all the work that they have done to bring together the …
Hi, I am Lyn Shulha, Director of the Assessment and Evaluation Group, Queen’s University, Kingston, Canada. I have found that after 20 years of practice, I am still becoming a participatory evaluator. It is important to continue asking, “Is participatory work right for me?” This question pushes me into an ongoing assessment of my own …
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