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Collaborative, Participatory and Empowerment Evaluation

Viengsavanh Sanaphane and Katie Moore on Dynamic Data Presentation and Recording for an Empowerment Evaluation Approach

We are Viengsavanh Sanaphane and Katie Moore from Catholic Relief Services.  We are working on an Inclusive Education (IE) project in Southeast Asia. Currently, IE efforts are expanding. Experienced partners that have worked on IE for years in the local context were planning to share qualitative data about their project with stakeholders new to the …

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CP TIG Week: Tara Gregory and Bailey Blair on Using Qualitative Data as a Catalyst for Youth Empowerment

We’re Tara Gregory, Director of Research and Evaluation, and Bailey Blair, Youth Leadership in Kansas Program Associate, at Wichita State University’s Center for Community Support and Research (CCSR).  CCSR was awarded a grant last year by the Kansas Department for Aging and Disability Services to provide technical assistance and research services to leadership groups for …

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GSNE Week: Kate Svensson and Barbara Szijarto on Evaluating Knowledge Mobilization

Hello!  We’re Barbara Szijarto and Kate Svensson, graduate students at the University of Ottawa.  We’re involved in a Government of Canada funded knowledge mobilization project called ‘Engagement: Mobilizing Community Involvement’ through the Centre for Research in Educational and Community Services (CRECS).  Our role is to aid in the evaluation of the initiative. Evaluating a knowledge …

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PD Presenters Week: Matt Militello & Chris Janson On Empowering Participants in Evaluation

We are we Matt Militello and Chris Janson. We have been working together since 2002. Our first collaboration was as educators in a public high school in Michigan where Militello was an assistant principal and Janson a counselor. We both left the K-12 setting to obtain doctorate degrees and now continue work together on research …

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p2i: Stephanie Evergreen on David Fetterman’s Fab Five Reboot

Hey all, I’m Stephanie Evergreen and I run AEA’s Potent Presentations Initiative and eLearning Initiatives. In a marriage of those two programs, we launched a new project called the Fab Five Reboot. I took five slides each from five of our best eStudy webinar presenters and revised them to better connect the content to a …

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AKEN Week: kas aruskevich on Strengthening Itinerant Evaluations in Rural Alaska

Greetings! My name is kas aruskevich and I am principal of Evaluation Research Associates LLC. I live in Fairbanks and work primarily in rural Alaska. Alaska is known for its great natural beauty, extreme temperatures, and unique context of diverse and far-flung communities assessable only by air. Alaska is the largest state in the U.S. …

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Susan Kistler on Winning a Free eStudy Registration, Comic Life, and Evaluation Communication Ideas

I am Susan Kistler, the American Evaluation Association’s Executive Director and aea365’s regular Saturday contributor. Earlier this month, you heard from Soledad Muñiz about  InsightShare’s work with participatory video (PV) for monitoring and evaluation. PV isn’t the only area in which InsightShare is leading the way. Hot Tip – Photostories: Photostories are a “new format …

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Video in #Eval Week: Soldedad Muñiz on Participatory Video for Monitoring & Evaluation

My name is Soledad Muñiz and I’m the Head of PV M&E at InsightShare. Susan has kindly introduced our work and methodology in this post some weeks ago. And as she anticipated, I’m here today to share some of our experiences using Participatory Video for Monitoring & Evaluation (PV M&E). Lessons Learned – how we’re …

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Susan Kistler on Free Guides to Participatory Video and the Most Significant Change Technique

My name is Susan Kistler and I am the American Evaluation Association’s Executive Director and aea365’s regular Saturday contributor. Are you using video as part of your evaluation work? Over the past couple of weeks, I have had the privilege of speaking with a number of AEA members who are using video in different ways …

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LGBT TIG Week: David Fetterman on LGBT-related Evaluation, Medical Education, Civil Rights, and the Press

My name is David Fetterman.  I’m President & CEO of Fetterman & Associates, an international evaluation consulting firm (with 25 years experience at Stanford University) and past-president of the American Evaluation Association (AEA).  I am probably best known for empowerment evaluation work (helping people learn how to evaluate their own programs).  For examples see our …

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