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Graduate Student and New Evaluators

Teaching Tips Week: Jill Hendrickson Lohmeier on Using Online Discussions for Teaching

1 Comment / Graduate Student and New Evaluators, Teaching of Evaluation / September 2, 2011

I am Jill Hendrickson Lohmeier, an assistant professor in the Graduate School of Education at the University of Massachusetts Lowell. Previously I was the Evaluation Director for the School Program Evaluation and Research group at the University of Kansas. I teach an online graduate level program evaluation course every summer, so I will be providing …

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Teaching Tips Week: Nick Fuhrman on Using Graduate Students as Evaluation Consultants

1 Comment / Graduate Student and New Evaluators, Teaching of Evaluation / September 2, 2011

I’m Nick Fuhrman, an assistant professor at the University of Georgia and the evaluation specialist for Georgia Cooperative Extension. Teaching is my passion—I love it! From working with our talented Extension professionals in the field to mentoring undergraduate and graduate students on campus, I can’t see myself ever doing anything else. I teach students on …

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Teaching Tips Week: Bonnie Stabile on Making the Most of the AEA Annual Conference

Leave a Comment / Graduate Student and New Evaluators, Teaching of Evaluation / September 6, 2011

My name is Bonnie Stabile, and I teach Program Evaluation in the MPP and MPA programs at George Mason University. This year, I am serving as co-chair of the Topical Interest Group (TIG) on the Teaching of Evaluation. All this week, we’ll be hearing from colleagues who will be presenting as part of a special …

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Nicole Lewis on Evaluation Apprenticeships – Real Life Evaluation Experience for Students and Evaluation Capacity Building for Community Groups

Leave a Comment / Graduate Student and New Evaluators, Teaching of Evaluation / September 21, 2011

Greetings, I am Nicole Lewis, an Assistant Professor in the College of Education at the University of Kentucky. I teach program evaluation courses and serve as the evaluator for various grant-funded initiatives. One of the challenges of teaching program evaluation courses is creating meaningful opportunities for students to apply what they learn in the classroom …

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Karen Chance on the Cornell Note Taking System

3 Comments / Graduate Student and New Evaluators, Qualitative Methods / August 29, 2011

I am Karen Chance and I learned the Cornell Note Taking System (CNTS) in a ‘how to succeed’ in college course my freshman year. I found it useful throughout college and have used a modified version of it since then as well when taking interview notes. I was surprised when I mentioned it to friends …

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Hui-Hui Wang on Assessing STEM Education

2 Comments / Graduate Student and New Evaluators, Prek-12 Educational Evaluation / August 24, 2011

My name is Hui-Hui Wang. Currently I am a Doctoral candidate in Science Education at the University of Minnesota. My research and teaching interests have been fostered by Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) integration professional development programs. As an evaluator, I encounter some struggles that I would like to share with people who are …

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Celina Chao & Patricia Quinones on Maintaining Organizational Memory

Leave a Comment / Graduate Student and New Evaluators, Organizational Learning and Evaluation Capacity Building / August 10, 2011

Hi. We are Celina Chao and Patricia Quinones, second-year doctoral students in the Social Research Methodology (SRM) Division in the Department of Education at UCLA. We are part of UCLA’s SRM Evaluation Group, composed of evaluation graduate students and faculty who work on a variety of education-related projects. Lesson Learned: A challenge that university-based evaluation …

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Susan Kistler on Formatting Categorical and Multiple Choice Questions for Online Surveying

1 Comment / Graduate Student and New Evaluators / September 1, 2011

I’m Susan Kistler, AEA’s Executive Director, and contributor of each Saturday’s aea365 post. Many moons ago, I taught survey design and worked as a consultant and trainer with a focus on evaluation planning and instrument development for nonprofit grantees. Today, I want to draw on that background to start an intermittent series on online surveying …

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Susan Kistler on the AEA Graduate Education Diversity Internship

Leave a Comment / Graduate Student and New Evaluators, Indigenous Peoples in Evaluation, Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgender Issues, Multiethnic Issues in Evaluation / June 3, 2011

Susan Kistler here, AEA’s Executive Director and Saturday contributor for aea365. I’m excited to be able to share this week that AEA is now taking applications for the AEA Graduate Education Diversity Internship (GEDI) Program. The goals of GEDI are to: Expand the pool of graduate students of color and from other underrepresented groups who …

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Laurel Lamb on the Golden Rule for Evaluators

2 Comments / Graduate Student and New Evaluators / June 1, 2011

My name is Laurel Lamb and I’ve been a practicing evaluator (although sometimes under the guise of organizational development) for over twenty years. When I sat down to write, I wanted to contemplate what I would share with someone new coming into the field. What have I learned that you couldn’t find in a textbook …

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