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Natalia Kosheleva on Measuring The Extent of Program Intervention into Targeted Systems

Leave a Comment / Evaluation Use, Qualitative Methods, Quantitative Methods: Theory and Design / June 6, 2011

Hi! My name is Natalia Kosheleva. I’m a consultant at Process Consulting Company, Moscow, Russia. Here I would like to share my ideas about measuring the extent of program intervention into targeted systems. I base my work on two systems thinking principles. The Hierarchy principle says that any system is an element of some larger …

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Gita Upreti and Carl Liaupsin on Developing Efficient Measures with Educational Data

Leave a Comment / Assessment in Higher Education, Evaluation Use, Organizational Learning and Evaluation Capacity Building / September 1, 2011

Hi, we are Gita Upreti, Assistant Professor at the University of Texas at El Paso and Carl Liaupsin, Associate Professor at the University of Arizona in Tucson. Much of our work involves implementing broad academic and behavioral changes in educational systems. As such, we’ve had a front row seat to observe the explosion of educational …

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Jessica Foster on Maximizing Survey Response Rates

1 Comment / Evaluation Use, Qualitative Methods, Quantitative Methods: Theory and Design / May 9, 2011

Hello, I’m Jessica Foster, a Research and Evaluation Analyst at Franklin County Children Services.  Our agency provides child protective services for the Central Ohio area.  During the course of my career, I have administered many surveys to a variety of stakeholders and clients.  I’ve learned from my work and from the experiences shared by my …

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Alberta Mirambeau on Program Stakeholders and Evaluation Stakeholders

1 Comment / Collaborative, Participatory and Empowerment Evaluation, Evaluation Use / April 18, 2011

My name is Alberta Mirambeau and I am an ORISE fellow on the Evaluation and Program Effectiveness Team in the Division for Heart Disease and Stroke Prevention at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. I provide evaluation technical assistance to state-funded programs that implement heart disease and stroke prevention activities. Our team uses the …

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Antonio J. Castro on Program Evaluation: More than Just Numbers

Leave a Comment / Evaluation Use, Nonprofits and Foundations Evaluation, Qualitative Methods / September 1, 2011

Hello. I’m Antonio J. Castro, and I am an assistant professor in the Department of Learning, Teaching, and Curriculum at the University of Missouri-Columbia. I teach courses in qualitative research and have been project director and coordinator for a variety of grant-funded initiatives. Project directors are constantly tasked with trying to represent the quality of …

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Viola, Patterson, Gray, and Boal on Reflecting on Students’ Self-Assessments of Knowledge Gained through a Program Evaluation Graduate Seminar

Leave a Comment / Assessment in Higher Education, Evaluation Use, Graduate Student and New Evaluators, Teaching of Evaluation, Theories of Evaluation / April 18, 2011

Our names are Wendy Viola, Lindsey Patterson, Mary Gray, and Ashley Boal and we are doctoral students in the Applied Social and Community Psychology program at Portland State University.  This winter, we took a course in Program Evaluation from Dr. Katherine McDonald.  We’d like to share three aspects of the seminar that we felt made …

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SIOP Week: E. Jane Davidson on SIOP and AEA’s best-kept secrets!

Leave a Comment / Business, Leadership, and Performance, Evaluation Use / February 19, 2011

My name is Jane Davidson and I run an evaluation consulting business called Real Evaluation Ltd. I also run a fun blog with Patricia Rogers at GenuineEvaluation.com. My doctoral training was in organizational psychology (with some industrial psyc at Master’s level), which is the career I was pursuing when I stumbled across evaluation. I was …

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Scribing: Robert McCowen on Fidelity of Implementation

Leave a Comment / Evaluation Use / February 14, 2011

My name is Robert McCowen and I am a doctoral fellow in Western Michigan University’s Interdisciplinary Ph.D. in Evaluation. I served as a session scribe at Evaluation 2010, and attended session number 606, Fidelity of Program Implementation in Educational Evaluations. I attended the session because my evaluation interests focus on education and assessment, and a …

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Sudharshan Seshadri on Mapping Resources for Conducting Useful Evaluations

Leave a Comment / Evaluation Use / January 4, 2011

Hello! My name is Sudharshan Seshadri and I am currently pursuing my Masters degree in Professional Studies specializing in Humanitarian Services Administration. My earlier post was a congregation of resources useful in conducting program evaluations catering to stakeholders of the project. In this post, I had planned to address the concerns of mapping the available …

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Sudharshan Seshadri on Resources for Program Evaluation

Leave a Comment / Evaluation Use, Extension Education Evaluation, Human Services Evaluation, Integrating Technology into Evaluation, Social Work / September 6, 2011

Hello! My name is Sudharshan Seshadri and I am currently pursuing my Masters degree in Professional Studies specializing in Humanitarian Services Administration. I started to realize that “data” is being considered as a most promising feature to understand the activity of evaluation. To abstract the data needs, I believe as an evaluator, we should be …

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