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Collaborative, Participatory and Empowerment Evaluation

CPE Week: Beverly Triana-Tremain on Relationship Building

My name is Beverly Triana-Tremain and I am the President & Owner of Public Health Consulting, LLC. I want to share with you one of my favorite quotes by Mark Twain, “A habit cannot be tossed out the window…it must be coaxed down the stairs one step at a time.” This quote is never more …

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CPE Week: Linda Delaney on Performance Appraisals

My name is Linda F. Delaney and I serve as a program evaluator for my own company, LFD Consulting, LLC, in Cordova, Tennessee.  In addition to independent consulting, I am currently employed as the Learning Coordinator for the City of Memphis Academy of Learning and Development.   In this role, one of my primary concerns is …

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CPE Week: José M. Díaz–Puente on the Empowerment Evaluator’s Role

I am José M. Díaz-Puente, professor of the Technical University of Madrid (Universidad Politécnica de Madrid–UPM) where I am member of the Research Group GESPLAN on Sustainable Planning and Management of Rural/Local Development. I have worked with participatory and empowerment evaluation approaches in rural areas of Europe and Latin America. I would like to share …

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CPE Week: Liliana Rodriguez-Campos on Collaborative Evaluation

I am Liliana Rodríguez-Campos, Co-Chair of the Collaborative, Participatory, and Empowerment Evaluation TIG. I am also an evaluation professor and the director of the Center for Research, Evaluation, Assessment and Measurement at the University of South Florida. Among other achievements, I received the American Evaluation Association’s Marcia Guttentag Award. During my evaluation career I have …

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CPE Week: David Fetterman on Empowerment Evaluation

I am David Fetterman, past-president of the American Evaluation Association and co-chair of the Collaborative, Participatory and Empowerment Evaluation TIG.  I have 25 years of experience at Stanford University.  Fetterman & Associates is my international evaluation consulting firm. I am also a professor of education in the School of Education at the University of Arkansas …

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ROE Bonus: Paul Brandon and Landry Fukunaga on Methods Used in Empirical Studies of Stakeholder Involvement in Program Evaluation

We are Paul Brandon and Landry Fukunaga from the University of Hawai‘i at M?noa. Stakeholder involvement in program evaluation is one of the most enduring topics in the program evaluation literature, but empirical research on the topic has been summarized only within limited domains. We conducted a literature review of empirical research, examining 7,580 publications …

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SIOP Week: Stephen Axelrad on I-O Psychology and Evaluation

My name is Stephen Axelrad.  I am a Human Capital consultant at Booz Allen Hamilton.  For almost a decade, in both my doctoral training and professional life, I have had one foot in the evaluation world and one foot in the industrial-organizational psychology (I-O) world.  Both disciplines use behavioral and social science research to solve …

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LGBT Week: Robin Lin Miller & Miles McNall on Putting Disempowered People at the Center of the Evaluation

Can community members be meaningfully engaged in evaluations when time is short? Our experience suggests that they can. We are Robin Lin Miller and Miles McNall. Robin is Professor of Ecological and Community Psychology and Miles is Associate Director of the Community Evaluation and Research Collaborative, both at Michigan State University. We have evaluated community-based …

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Cindy Banyai on Creative Tech Tools for Participatory Evaluation

I am Dr. Cindy Banyai and I am the Executive Director of the Refocus Institute, a consultancy specializing in planning and training in participatory evaluation using visual methods.  I have recently returned to the U.S. from working and researching in Asia, where I was a member and an editor for the English language journal of …

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WMU Scribing: Alexander Manga on Perspectives of Quality

My name is Alexander Manga, and I am a Ph.D student at Western Michigan University. I served as a scribe at Evaluation 2010 and attended session 356, Differing Perspectives of Quality Throughout an Evaluation. I chose this session because I am very interested in understanding more about the construction and processing of quality evaluations. Lessons …

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