Graduate Student and New Evaluators

Good day to you all, I return to continue what I started, when I previously mentioned the African Diaspora and its effects on my social identity and professional role. Once again, I am Charity Odetola, a West African woman and budding evaluator, where the aftermath of colonization and the African Diaspora have influenced a lack …

Am I a Colonizer or Decolonizer … of Methodologies? Part II by Charity Odetola Read More »

Hello, I, Charity Odetola, an international student from West Africa, greet you from Greensboro, North Carolina, where I am a second-year graduate student at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro, working on a Master’s Degree in Educational Research and Methodology with a Program Evaluation emphasis. This current endeavor, informed by my past experiences, has …

Am I a Colonizer or Decolonizer … of Methodologies? Part I by Charity Odetola Read More »

My name is Noelle Wyman Roth and I am a Research & Evaluation Analyst at the Social Science Research Institute at Duke University. In addition to working as a full-time evaluator, I am beginning a part-time PhD program at UNC-Greensboro this fall. I’m writing to share why being a non-traditional PhD student by pursuing my …

NC Evaluators Week: How I Benefit from Being a Non-Traditional Graduate Student in Program Evaluation by Noelle Wyman Roth Read More »

Hello! My name is Zachariah Barghouti, an intern with Evaluation + Learning Consulting, and a graduate student in American University’s Measurement and Evaluation Program. While the pandemic has put a halt to face-to-face evaluation, our work has shifted to online methods. When hosting meetings online directly with stakeholders, evaluative work should still be equitable, cross-culturally …

Participatory Evaluation in Remote Times by Zachariah Barghouti Read More »

Hi! I’m Amy M. Gullickson, 2010 IDPE graduate and Acting Co-Director and Senior Lecturer, University of Melbourne Centre for Program Evaluation, Melbourne, VIC, Australia. One of the challenges to graduate education in evaluation is the Dunning-Kruger effect. Because evaluation is an everyday activity and a professional activity, and all the other kinds of activities in …

IDPE Week: Why bother with graduate education in evaluation? An alumni perspective by Amy M. Gullickson Read More »

Greetings! My name is Amy Jersild, Doctoral Scholar in the Interdisciplinary Program in Evaluation (IDPE) at Western Michigan University (WMU), and an evaluator working in the international development sector. I entered the program in August 2018 following four years of teaching evaluation in a MA program in sustainable development at World Learning’s School for International …

IDPE Week: From Evaluation Practitioner to Evaluation Scholar by Amy Jersild Read More »