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CC Week: Tamera Bertrand Jones, Osman Özturgut, and Leah Nuebauar on Teaching Culturally Competent Evaluation

Hello! We’re Tamera Bertrand Jones, Assistant Professor of Higher Education at Florida State University, Osman Ozturgut, Assistant Professor of Education at the University of the Incarnate World, and Leah Neubauer is the Associate Director of the Master of Public Health Program at DePaul University. Evaluators enter the field from different academic backgrounds and possess varying levels of …

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CC Week: Osman Özturgut and Tamera Bertrand Jones on Integrating Cultural Competence into Your AEA Presentation

Leave a Comment / Disabilities and Underrepresented Populations, Indigenous Peoples in Evaluation, International and Cross-cultural Evaluation / July 2, 2012 May 27, 2013

Hello! We’re Osman Ozturgut, Assistant Professor of Education at the University of the Incarnate World and Tamera Bertrand Jones, Assistant Professor of Higher Education at Florida State University. In the previous posting, we learned about the AEA Public Statement on Cultural Competence in Evaluation (the Statement) and the reason for its development. In this post, …

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CC Week: Cindy Crusto on Introduction to AEA Public Statement on Cultural Competence in Evaluation Week

2 Comments / Disabilities and Underrepresented Populations, Indigenous Peoples in Evaluation, International and Cross-cultural Evaluation / July 1, 2012 May 27, 2013

Hi, my name is Cindy Crusto, associate professor, Yale School of Medicine, and chair of the AEA Public Statement on Cultural Competence in Evaluation Dissemination Working Group. I am writing on behalf of the Working Group to inform you of the purpose of the Working Group and to introduce this week’s aea365 series. As you …

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Debi Lang and Kathy Muhr on Identifying Hidden or Hard to Reach Populations

1 Comment / Disabilities and Underrepresented Populations / May 31, 2012 June 1, 2012

We are Debi Lang and Kathy Muhr, members of the Research and Evaluation Unit at the University of Massachusetts Medical School Center for Health Policy and Research. Populations considered hidden or hard to reach for participation in qualitative evaluation studies may be small in size, their members difficult to locate, or hard to distinguish from …

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Robin Kelly on A Tip on Activating Your Cultural Intelligence

2 Comments / Disabilities and Underrepresented Populations, Health Evaluation, Internal Evaluation / May 25, 2012 April 23, 2012

Hi, I am Robin Kelly; I work as an internal evaluator for the National Minority AIDS Council, which is a federally funded nongovernmental organization that provides capacity building assistance to community based organizations and health departments that have programs or interventions to address the HIV/AIDS epidemic. I mention it because we work in communities of …

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Melanie Kawano-Chiu and Andrew Blum on Peacebuilding Evaluation Project: A Forum for Donors and Implementers

Leave a Comment / Disabilities and Underrepresented Populations, International and Cross-cultural Evaluation, Mixed Methods Evaluation / May 23, 2012 May 21, 2012

We are Melanie Kawano-Chiu, Program Director at the Alliance for Peacebuilding (AfP) and Andrew Blum, Director of Evaluation and Learning at the United States Institute of Peace. More than two years ago I teamed up with Andrew Blum, Director of Learning and Evaluation at the United States Institute of Peace (USIP) to launch an initiative …

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Humberto Reynoso-Vallejo on Cultural Competence and Cultural Humility in Evaluation

5 Comments / Disabilities and Underrepresented Populations, Health Evaluation, International and Cross-cultural Evaluation / May 2, 2012 April 3, 2012

I am Humberto Reynoso-Vallejo, Director for Program Evaluation with the Center for Health Policy and Research at the University of Massachusetts Medical School. Using culturally appropriate approaches when conducting research and evaluation in multicultural settings, is widely accepted and essential. The cultural competence approach serves as the specific framework when conducting evaluations. This approach alone, …

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Lori Peterson on Conducting Focus Groups with High School Students with Disabilities

2 Comments / Data Visualization and Reporting, Disabilities and Underrepresented Populations, Prek-12 Educational Evaluation, Qualitative Methods, Youth Focused Evaluation / May 1, 2012 May 1, 2012

I am Lori Peterson an Assistant Professor at the University of Northern Colorado. Recently, I worked on a project conducting a series of focus groups with high school students with disabilities. I wanted to share tips and lessons learned from this experience. Hot Tips: Feed them and they will come! High school students love food. …

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Sarah Gill on the Atlanta-area Evaluation Association Spring Social 2012

2 Comments / Disabilities and Underrepresented Populations, Independent Consulting, Internal Evaluation, Multiethnic Issues in Evaluation, Organizational Learning and Evaluation Capacity Building / April 4, 2012 March 9, 2012

I’m Sarah Gill, membership chair for the Atlanta-area Evaluation Association (AaEA). Recently AaEA hosted a spring social. The event was inspired by the recent AEA 365 posts making predictions for the future of evaluation. Maureen Wilce, AaEA’s chair for professional development, and I thought the posts would inspire great conversation among our fellow evaluators – …

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Linda Cabral, Laura Sefton, and Kathy Muhr on Recruiting People with Mental Health Conditions for Data Collection

2 Comments / Disabilities and Underrepresented Populations, Health Evaluation / April 3, 2012 March 9, 2012

Hello! We are Linda Cabral, Laura Sefton and Kathy Muhr from the Center for Health Policy and Research at the University of Massachusetts Medical School. We recently completed an evaluation project that involved recruiting people with mental health conditions to participate in individual interviews, focus groups, and surveys regarding their experiences with a mental health …

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