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Graduate Student and New Evaluators

Alison Mendoza and Yusuf Ransome on GEDI Intern Reflections of the AEA Annual Conference

Leave a Comment / Graduate Student and New Evaluators / December 20, 2010

We are Alison Mendoza and Yusuf Ransome, interns in AEA’s Graduate Education Diversity Internship (GEDI) program.  GEDI interns are graduate students in various disciplines in the social sciences who, through a nine-month internship and participation in various workshops throughout the year, gain hands-on experience in evaluation. GEDI interns also receive support from experienced mentors both …

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Frances Carter on Evaluating the Race Matters Toolkit and Resources for Student Evaluators

2 Comments / Graduate Student and New Evaluators, Multiethnic Issues in Evaluation, Nonprofits and Foundations Evaluation / January 3, 2011

I am Frances Carter, a Public Policy PhD Candidate at the University of Maryland Baltimore County. As a member of AEA’s 2009-2010 cohort of GEDIs (pronounced JEDI; acronym for Graduate Education and Diversity Internship), I developed an evaluation plan for the Annie E. Casey Foundation’s Race Matter’s Toolkit. The Race Matters Toolkit (RMT) was designed …

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Scribing: Lisa Dillman on Taking Control of Your Evaluation Career

2 Comments / Evaluation Managers and Supervisors, Graduate Student and New Evaluators / November 29, 2010

My name is Lisa Dillman and I am a graduate student at UCLA. I served as a session scribe at Evaluation 2010, and attended session number 529: Taking Control of Your Evaluation Career. I chose to attend this skill building workshop because I have both a research and personal interest in how people come to …

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Susan Kistler on Must Read Books for Evaluators

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

My name is Susan Kistler, I am the Executive Director of the American Evaluation Association, and I contribute each Saturday’s post to aea365. Today, I’m going to draw from a discussion on AEA’s LinkedIn Group. Three months ago, Michelle Baron asked “What are the top 5 must-read books for evaluators?” I encourage you to review …

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Leland Lockhart on Cross Classified Random Effects Models in Evaluation

1 Comment / Cluster, Multi-site and Multi-level Evaluation, Graduate Student and New Evaluators, Prek-12 Educational Evaluation, Quantitative Methods: Theory and Design / October 21, 2010

My name is Leland Lockhart, and I am a graduate student at the University of Texas at Austin and a research assistant at ACT, Inc.’s National Center for Educational Achievement (NCEA).  The NCEA is a department of ACT, Inc., a not-for-profit organization committed to helping people achieve education and workplace success. NCEA builds the capacity …

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Internal Eval Week: Pamela Bishop on Working as a New Internal Evaluator

Leave a Comment / Graduate Student and New Evaluators, Internal Evaluation / September 3, 2010

My name is Pamela Bishop, and I am the internal evaluator for the National Institute for Mathematical and Biological Synthesis at the University o f Tennessee. In my few short years working as a professional evaluator, I have always held positions in which I was external to the organization being evaluated. When I accepted my …

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Brad Coverdale on Using the National Educational Longitudinal Survey of 1988-2000

1 Comment / College Access Programs, Graduate Student and New Evaluators / September 21, 2010

My name is Brad Coverdale and I am a doctoral student at the University of Maryland, College Park. I am interested in researching post-secondary access as well as success initiatives for students, particularly first-generation and/or low income. One of these initiatives that was very dear to me was Upward Bound. As such, I conducted a …

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Aubrey Perry on Ensuring a Positive Practica Experience

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

Hello colleagues! My name is Aubrey W. Perry, a graduate student in the Community Psychology doctorate program at Portland State University. I have had the privilege of working on two evaluation practicum projects before completing my master’s requirements. Through the completion of these projects, I have learned several actions that can be taken to ensure …

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Judah Viola on Building Capacity to Succeed as an Independent Consultant

Leave a Comment / Graduate Student and New Evaluators, Independent Consulting / September 2, 2010

My name is Judah Viola and I am a Community Psychologist at National-Louis University in Chicago. I also manage an independent consulting practice specializing in program evaluation and collaborative community research. Whether boom or bust economy, it is never a bad time to build your own evaluation skills and capacity to provide value for clients. …

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