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Graduate Student and New Evaluators

Dawn X. Henderson on Modeling evaluation at the undergraduate level

Leave a Comment / Graduate Student and New Evaluators, Teaching of Evaluation / January 20, 2016

I am Dawn X. Henderson, a past fellow of AEA’s Graduate Education Diversity Initiative (GEDI) and member of the Ann E. Casey’s Expanding the Bench Initiative. I recently developed an undergraduate seminar course in Community Psychology at a Minority Serving Institution. Program evaluation is a competency in Community Psychology and modeling evaluation was critical in …

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GSNE Week: Indira Phukan and Rachel Tripathy on Using Art-based Embedded Assessment to Understand Environmental Learning

1 Comment / Graduate Student and New Evaluators / January 3, 2016

Hello everyone! We are Indira Phukan and Rachel Tripathy, graduate students at the Stanford Graduate School of Education. This past summer, we worked with a local environmental education organization to pilot several tools for evaluating learning outcomes related to stewardship and environmental behavior change. When it comes to understanding students’ perceptions of and relationships with …

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GSNE Week: Elizabeth Grim on Fostering Conscious Communication within Teams

4 Comments / Graduate Student and New Evaluators / January 4, 2016

Hello fellow evaluation lovers! My name is Elizabeth Grim and I work as an evaluation consultant with The Consultation Center at Yale, where I primarily consult with community-based agencies to build evaluation capacity. Prior to joining The Consultation Center, I worked as a policy analyst for Connecticut’s statewide campaign to end homelessness. With the growing popularity of social …

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GSNE Week: Megan Olshavsky on Feeling Legit

Leave a Comment / Graduate Student and New Evaluators / January 3, 2016

My name is Megan Olshavsky and I’ve been an evaluator of PreK-12 educational programs for about a year and half now. Before starting my work in a public school district, I was researching learning and memory processes in rats, earning my Ph.D. in Psychology – Behavioral Neuroscience. My experiments were very controlled: the rats exhibited …

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GSNE Week: Alana Kinarsky on The Benefits of a Pop Up Journal Club for Evaluators

2 Comments / Graduate Student and New Evaluators / January 5, 2016

 Hello! My name is Alana Kinarsky, a PhD student in the Evaluation program at University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). As a graduate student, I regularly read evaluation theory and conduct my own research on evaluation. However, I often wonder how research on evaluation does or should help practitioners in their daily work. Cool Trick: …

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GSNE Week: Laura Sundstrom and Megan Elyse Williams on Intentionally Developing Skills in New Evaluators: The Tier Approach

4 Comments / Graduate Student and New Evaluators / January 3, 2016

Hello! We are Laura Sundstrom and Megan Elyse Williams, Evaluation Associates at the Curtis Center Program Evaluation Group (CC-PEG) at the University of Michigan School of Social Work. At CC-PEG, we train Master of Social Work students in program evaluation through providing high-quality evaluation services to community-based organizations.  Our students enter our unit with a …

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GSNE Week: Sophia Guevara on Partnership for Good

Leave a Comment / Graduate Student and New Evaluators / January 2, 2016

My name is Sophia Guevara and I am a recent graduate of Wayne State University. I am writing about my experience identifying and collaborating with other evaluation leaders and professionals to motivate them to take action around an important issue. For the Chicago conference, I worked with the leadership of several Topical Interest Groups to …

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#Eval14 Grad Students Reflections Week: Denise Ramón on Building Relationships and Enhancing your Network System: Eval2014

1 Comment / Graduate Student and New Evaluators / December 13, 2014

Hi! My name is Denise Ramón. I am a doctoral student in education at the University of the Incarnate Word in San Antonio, Texas and work at the Center for Civic Leadership that focuses on civic engagement and leadership. More specifically, I help to connect my university to the community. I am interested in Asset …

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#Eval14 Grad Students Reflections Week: Çigdem Meek, Bashar Ahmed, and Marissa Molina on Lessons Learned as Novice Evaluators: Eval2014

2 Comments / Graduate Student and New Evaluators / December 13, 2014

Hello! We are Çigdem Meek, Bashar Ahmed, and Marissa Molina, PhD students at the University of Incarnate Word in San Antonio, Texas. As novice evaluators, we would like to share what we have learned from our experience of attending the 28th Annual Conference of the American Evaluation Association in Denver. Lessons Learned: Attending the conference …

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#Eval14 Grad Students Reflections Week: Erica Roberts on Reflecting on Evaluation 2014: Perspectives of a Graduate Student

2 Comments / Graduate Student and New Evaluators / December 13, 2014

Hi, my name is Erica Roberts, an AEA GEDI scholar, doctoral candidate at the University of Maryland School of Public Health, and an intern at the National Cancer Institute Office of Science Planning and Assessment. As a graduate student who is approaching the transition from student to professional in the field of public health evaluation, …

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