My name is Daniela Schröter and I am the director of research at The Evaluation Center and an associate faculty of the Interdisciplinary Ph.D. program in Evaluation (IDPE) at Western Michigan University. In my position, I write a lot of evaluation proposals and implement evaluation projects together with IDPE students and Center staff. One of …
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If it’s Saturday it must be Susan! My name is Susan Kistler. I am the Executive Director for the American Evaluation Association and I contribute each Saturday’s post to the aea365 blog. Today, I am going completely practical and broadly applicable. The range of opportunities that call for working with photographs is ever increasing, including …
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My name is Bianca Montrosse and I am a Research and Evaluation Specialist with the SERVE Center at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. Since receiving my first Edward R. Tufte book as a gift, I’ve been searching for ways to visually articulate data that are both innovative and informative. Below are some rad …
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My name is Alexey Kuzmin and I am the President of the Process Consulting Company (www.processconsulting.ru) based in Moscow, Russia. As an international evaluation consultant I am interested in exploring new and effective ways of communicating evaluation results to the interested parties. In particular, I often use cartoons. Especially when there is a need to …
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My name is SaraJoy Pond, and I am a doctoral candidate at Brigham Young University. I’m particularly interested in evaluation capacity-building for social change. Cool Trick: Chances are, if you’ve worked at all with qualitative data sets, you know the feeling of “drowning in data.” The end of an evaluation engagement often leaves me swimming …
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Kia ora koutou! My name is Jane Davidson and I run an evaluation consulting and capacity building business based in New Zealand. My main clients are NZ central government agencies across multiple sectors (health, education, leadership development, corrections, etc), but I also work with various other kinds of organizations and run evaluation training as well. …
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My name is Kile Dyer, and I am the Director of Organizational Development and Training at Fox Entertainment Group. One of my interests is pursuing the “holy grail” of the development field, demonstrating the ROI. I’ll be sharing a couple of successful practices and great resources that can help you build a scorecard framework for …
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My name is Laura Blasi. I work in the field of assessment and institutional research, evaluate grants in the field of education, and teach research methods to graduate students. In all cases I am trying to communicate in ways that are engaging but are still have meaning (to them and for me.) I write a …
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