Hi, I’m Sara Plachta Elliott, Evaluation Fellow at the Skillman Foundation in Detroit, Michigan, through a grant to Brandeis University’s Center for Youth and Communities. As an Evaluation Fellow, I work with Foundation staff to create learning opportunities that inform the work of improving school and neighborhood conditions for Detroit’s kids.In 2010, Brandeis conducted a …
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I’m Cindy Banyai, Executive Director of the Refocus Institute, an international consortium offering training and specialists in innovative participatory evaluation practices. I write our blog, the Participatory Evaluation Forum (and update our Facebook and Twitter pages), to demonstrate our activities, share information, and promote the use and acceptance of participatory action research in evaluation. Rad …
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Hi everyone! I’m Taj Carson, President of Carson Research Consulting, Inc. We are a small, women-owned research firm in Baltimore, MD. that specializes in evaluation research. At Carson Research, we maintain a blog, as well as a twitter feed. Our blog is called REALIZE: Real World. Real Value. Real Change. You can also follow us …
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I’m Melissa McGuire, a Partner at Cathexis Consulting Inc., an evaluation practice in Toronto, Canada. I was inspired by Ricardo Gomez’s recent post on Q methodology to share an adaptation of Q which we’ve been using in our practice that we call Group Priority Sort. Lesson Learned: As many evaluators have experienced, it’s important to …
My name is Joshua Joseph and I’m a Sr. Program Manager at Partnership for Public Service, a non-profit that works to revitalize the federal government by focusing on people and performance. This post is about recruiting study participants – a companion to Elisabeth Autio’s aea365 post from December of 2011. In line with Elisabeth’s good …
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We are a collaborative team from three research and planning firms: Loraine Park (Harder+Company Community Research), Carolyn Verheyen (MIG), and Eric Wat (SSG). As part of a larger community needs assessment, we recently conducted asset mapping in multiple communities. Our aim was to use that process to engage residents and parents in conversations about the …
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My name is Terri Anderson and I serve as a Director for Evaluation with the University of Massachusetts Medical School’s Center for Health Policy and Research. Recently, Michael Hutton-Woodland and I worked with a 15 member coalition of regulatory agencies and long term care providers convened to address safe medication administration in Massachusetts nursing homes. …
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I’m Susan Kistler, the American Evaluation Association’s Executive Director, and aea365’s Saturday contributor. Our eStudy director just announced the lineup for January and February! Lesson Learned: AEA’s eStudy offerings are online, real-time, webinar-based training right from your desktop with no need to fly, or get lost in traffic, or lose extra time away from work, …
My name is Josey Landrieu, Assistant Professor in Program Evaluation at the University of Minnesota Extension Center for Youth Development. One of the things I enjoy the most about my work is the opportunity to collaborate with external partners in research and evaluation projects. Liliana Rodriguez-Campos (2005) defines collaborative evaluation as “an evaluation in which there …
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Hello, I’m Linda Cabral, a Senior Project Director from the Center for Health Policy and Research at the University of Massachusetts Medical School. In an effort to more fully engage people from different cultural backgrounds and their communities in one of our recently-completed qualitative evaluation projects for our State’s Department of Mental Health, we employed …
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