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Collaborative, Participatory and Empowerment Evaluation

Michelle Jay on Lessons Learned in Acquiring Stakeholder Feedback

2 Comments / Collaborative, Participatory and Empowerment Evaluation, College Access Programs, Evaluation Managers and Supervisors / August 25, 2010

My name is Michelle Jay and I am an Assistant Professor at the University of South Carolina. I am an independent evaluator and also an evaluation consultant with Evaluation, Assessment and Policy Connections (EvAP) in the School of Education at UNC-Chapel Hill. Currently I serve with Rita O’Sullivan as Directors of AEA’s Graduate Education Diversity Internship …

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Michael Matteson on the Hawthorne Effect and Empowerment Evaluation

1 Comment / Collaborative, Participatory and Empowerment Evaluation / August 7, 2010

I’m Michael Matteson and I’m pursuing a graduate degree at the University of Wollongong (Australia). Lessons Learned – What’s the Hawthorne effect? Why would it matter in Empowerment Evaluation? Most people will remember hearing of the “Hawthorne effect “based on a major study of organizational and environmental effects on productivity which gave confusing and contradictory …

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Susan Geier on Using a Participatory Evaluation Approach

1 Comment / Collaborative, Participatory and Empowerment Evaluation, College Access Programs, Indigenous Peoples in Evaluation / August 24, 2010

Hi, my name is Susan Geier and I am a doctoral student at Purdue University studying research methods, measurement and evaluation. I employ a participatory evaluation approach with the GEMscholar project and have learned much from the Native American college students and the dedicated program staff. Lessons Learned: I would like to share my three …

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Susan Wolfe on How Community Psychology Influences My Work as an Evaluator

1 Comment / Collaborative, Participatory and Empowerment Evaluation / August 24, 2010

My name is Susan Wolfe and I am the owner of Susan Wolfe and Associates, LLC, a consulting firm that applies Community Psychology principles to strengthening organizations and communities. Applied research skills and program evaluation were core features of my Community Psychology graduate curriculum. Over the course of my evaluation career, I have become aware …

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Kimberly Kay Lopez on Getting Creative With the Data You Collect and Use for Evaluations!

2 Comments / Collaborative, Participatory and Empowerment Evaluation, Youth Focused Evaluation / December 21, 2011

Hello, I am Kimberly Kay Lopez, I have a community-based evaluation and research practice based in Houston, Texas. My work is concentrated in participatory evaluation methods used for the evaluation of youth programs and services. Hot Tip: Using Photovoice in an Empowerment Evaluation: When working with youth, I have used the Empowerment Evaluation model many …

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Stanley Capela on Using Kaizen for Program Improvement

Leave a Comment / Collaborative, Participatory and Empowerment Evaluation / July 26, 2010

As one from Brooklyn might say – “Yo! Seriously, Good Day!” For those who don’t subscribe to AEA’s listserv, Evaltalk, my name is Stanley Capela. I am the Vice President for Quality Management at HeartShare Human Services of New York, a 90 million dollar non-profit that provides children and family and developmental disabilities services for …

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Deshonna Collier-Goubil on Evaluator-Practitioner Collaboration

1 Comment / Collaborative, Participatory and Empowerment Evaluation, Graduate Student and New Evaluators / July 19, 2010

My name is Deshonna Collier-Goubil and I am a young scholar (newly minted PhD) who has had the wonderful opportunity to collaborate with seasoned evaluators and practitioners throughout my graduate education. Most recently I collaborated with a group of practitioners and evaluators to contribute a chapter in a newly released volume specifically written for young …

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Jim Burdine on How to Present Community Assessment Data Back to a Community

Leave a Comment / Behavioral Health, Collaborative, Participatory and Empowerment Evaluation, Health Evaluation / September 13, 2010

I’m Jim Burdine and a few weeks ago I posted a “tip-a-day” (see post here) on presenting community health assessment data back to the community. This is part two of that discussion. Last time I focused on “what to present” this posting focuses on “how to present . . . with results.” There are two …

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DOVP Week: Aimee Sickels on the Two Minute Logic Model

1 Comment / Collaborative, Participatory and Empowerment Evaluation, Disabilities and Underrepresented Populations / July 21, 2010

My name is Aimee Sickels and I am the Principal Evaluator and owner of Custom Evaluation Services, an independent evaluation consulting business. I am also currently working on a Ph.D. in Social Work at the University of South Carolina. My helpful hint relates to the use of logic models. I am an empowerment evaluator and believe that …

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DOVP Week: Gordon Bonham on the Benefits of Using Interviewers with Disabilities

Leave a Comment / Collaborative, Participatory and Empowerment Evaluation, Disabilities and Underrepresented Populations / September 5, 2010

Hello, I am Gordon Bonham, owner of Bonham Research, Cranberry Township, Pennsylvania. Measuring the quality of life of people with intellectual and other developmental disabilities (ID/DD) presents a number of challenges. Lessons Learned: Although it is generally assumed that self response is better than proxy response when people have the ability to respond for themselves, …

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