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Susan Kistler on Thinking Imaginatively for Evaluation Reporting

5 Comments / Data Visualization and Reporting / March 2, 2013 March 3, 2013

My name is Susan Kistler and I am the Executive Director of the American Evaluation Association and the regularly Saturday contributor on area365. Next week I am traveling to Minnesota to give a workshop at the Minnesota Evaluation Studies Institute on “Data Visualization, Presentation, and Reporting That Engages Stakeholders, Elevates Your Message, and Enhances Use.” …

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Bloggers Series: Kim Firth Leonard on Actionable Data

Hello all, I’m Kim Firth Leonard, American Evaluation Association (AEA) member since 2008, and President of local affiliate OPEN, the Oregon Program Evaluators Network. I currently work at Marylhurst University in Portland, Oregon, primarily on assessment of student learning and academic programs, though I also dabble in institutional research. I also do contract work in …

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Susan Kistler on Real Time Reporting When the Lights Go Out

Leave a Comment / Data Visualization and Reporting / February 10, 2013 February 12, 2013

My name is Susan Kistler and I am the American Evaluation Association’s Executive Director and aea365’s regular Saturday contributor. Except, today is Sunday, because Friday and Saturday brought snowfall for the record books and here on the Southcoast that snow came with 40 mile per hour sustained winds and gusts far exceeding that. Power outage …

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Sarah Rand on Using Visual.ly’s Marketplace Service for Infographics

3 Comments / Data Visualization and Reporting / January 27, 2013 January 28, 2013

My name is Sarah Rand and I am an Associate Project Director for Research and Evaluation at the Center for Elementary Mathematics and Science Education at the University of Chicago. Our team is currently working on a few efforts to share research and evaluation findings in useful and creative ways (see my November aea365 post …

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Elissa Schloesser on 5 Steps for Translating Evaluation Findings into Infographics

4 Comments / Data Visualization and Reporting / January 21, 2013 January 21, 2013

My name is Elissa Schloesser, I’m a freelance graphic designer specializing in communicating complex information and ideas. I work specifically with mission-based organization, and partner with a number of evaluators to create communication pieces that summarize evaluation findings for use with funders, potential supporters, and to be more broadly shared with the public. Below are …

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Bloggers Series: Sheila B. Robinson on Evaluspheric Perceptions

Leave a Comment / Data Visualization and Reporting, Prek-12 Educational Evaluation / January 9, 2013 January 9, 2013

I’m Sheila B. Robinson*, an educator and avid learner who works for Greece Central School District and the University of Rochester. I teach evaluation courses, do some evaluation work, and have recently become a blogger. Rad Resource – Evaluspheric Perceptions – Reflections of an everyday evaluator/learner/educator exploring the evalusphere: I started in November with each …

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Monica Hargraves and Miranda Fang on Operationalizing the “Golden Spike” – Practical Guidance for Literature Searches to Complement Program Evaluation

1 Comment / Data Visualization and Reporting / December 30, 2012 December 15, 2012

Hello! We are Monica Hargraves and Miranda Fang, from the Cornell Office for Research on Evaluation. We presented together at Eval2012 would like to share some practical tips on literature searches in the context of evaluation. Program managers often face an expectation worthy of Hercules: to provide strong research-quality evidence that their program is effective …

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Susan Kistler on a Free Book Drawing and Free Online Training on Infographics and Data Visualization

33 Comments / Data Visualization and Reporting, Evaluation Use / December 8, 2012 December 9, 2012

My name is Susan Kistler. I am the American Evaluation Association’s Executive Director and aea365’s regularly Saturday contributor. Back in September, I wrote about the emergence of huge, free, online courses – some of them taught by leading-edge thinkers in a particular field. I noted that I’d need to wait until winter to enroll in …

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Innovative #Eval Week: Schwalbe, Miller, and Gensinger on #EvalAHA! What Can Twitter Tell Us about the AEA Conference?

2 Comments / Data Visualization and Reporting, Integrating Technology into Evaluation, Teaching of Evaluation / November 29, 2012 November 29, 2012

Hi, we’re Anne Schwalbe, Keith Miller, and Michelle Gensinger, graduate students in the Evaluation Studies Program at the University of Minnesota. We chose Twitter as a platform for exploring creative evaluation methods at the AEA Annual Conference. These are the questions we hope to answer with our analysis: How was Twitter used during the conference? …

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