Environmental Program Evaluation

Climate Ed Eval week; Rachel Becker-Klein on Using Embedded Assessment Tools for Evaluating Impact of Climate Change Education Programs on Youths

My name is Rachel Becker-Klein and I am an evaluator and a Community Psychologist with almost a decade of experience evaluating programs focused on STEM (science, technology, engineering, and math) education, citizen science, place-based education, and climate change education. I’ve worked with PEER Associates since 2005. PEER Associates is an evaluation firm that provides customized, …

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Climate Ed Eval Week: Nicole Holthuis on Lessons Learned from Measuring Intermediary Outcomes

Hi all.  My name is Nicole Holthuis.  I’m an independent research/evaluator specializing in science and environmental education. Much has been said about the desired outcomes of climate change education.  Evaluators have created and shared various instruments to measure changes in participants’ attitudes, interest, knowledge, behaviors, and skills.   But how do we make sense of these …

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Climate Ed Eval Week: Ann Martin on Building a Community of Climate Education Evaluators

Hi there! I’m Ann Martin, a postdoctoral fellow and internal evaluator with NASA Innovations in Climate Education, which funds climate education projects as part of NASA’s Minority University Research and Education Program (MUREP). I’m also part of a cross-agency collaboration involving sister programs at the National Science Foundation (NSF) and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric …

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EPE Week: Andy Rowe on Time for Evaluators to Get Ahead of the Curve

Coming soon to an intervention near you – SUSTAINABILITY! Andy Rowe here, writing from long experience and physically from our small farm on Salt Spring Island off of the Canadian coast of British Columbia. Years ago, when I was involved in the theory and practice of rapid social change, many of us argued that gender …

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EPE Week: Yvonne M. Watson on Money Ball: Lessons about Measurement and Evaluation from the (Baseball) Field

Hi everyone!  I’m Yvonne M. Watson, a Program Analyst in U.S. EPA’s Evaluation Support Division (ESD) and Chair of AEA’s EPE TIG.  I’m primarily responsible for managing the division’s internal evaluation capacity building efforts. I read Moneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Game by Michael Lewis to understand the importance of a culture that …

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EPE Week: Sara El Choufi on Why Excel is the Coolest Program Ever!

Hello. I’m Sara El Choufi, and I work in Results-based Management at the Global Environment Facility (the GEF), an agency within the World Bank. While most of the work relies on qualitative analysis and pulling out results from ongoing projects, no assessment can ever be complete without numbers. Among other things, I work on data …

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EPE Week: Lee-Anne Molony on Collaborative Outcomes Reporting

I’m Lee-Anne Molony and I’m a Principal Consultant at Clear Horizon. We’re an Australian consultancy who specializes in participatory monitoring and evaluation for environmental management and agricultural programs. This post will talk about a technique we developed, Collaborative Outcomes Reporting (previously known as Participatory Performance Story Reporting). This technique is currently being used nationally across …

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EPE Week: Anna Williams on Why I am NOT an Environmentalist

My name is Anna Williams.  I’m an independent evaluator based in Seattle, Washington.  I evaluate global societal challenges. I would like to have reason to unlearn a lesson. How many of you tune out when you hear the word “environment”?  If you are a self-described “environmentalist” do you see eyes glaze over when you use …

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EPE Week: Tracy Dyke-Redmond on Evaluating Adaptation Plans

Hello, I’m Tracy Dyke-Redmond, a Senior Associate at IEC, an environmental and economics consulting firm in Cambridge, Massachusetts. I work on all types of evaluation and performance measurement for EPA and other federal clients.  Recently, we have seen an uptick in interest in evaluating adaptation planning efforts to respond to the effects of climate change. …

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Bloggers Series: Jess Chandler on jessachandler.com

Hi, fellow evaluators! I’m Jess Chandler, a consultant at Energy Market Innovations, a small firm primarily focused on energy efficiency and renewable energy program evaluation. Rad Resource – jessachandler.com: This blog is a combination of several voices of me, from personal concerns to evaluation methods. The content here has adapted over time and has only …

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