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Graduate Student and New Evaluators

GEDI Week: D. Pearl Barnett on Cultural Responsiveness in a Representative Bureaucracy

Leave a Comment / Graduate Student and New Evaluators, Multiethnic Issues in Evaluation / November 30, 2013

Greetings, I am D. Pearl Barnett, MPA, graduate student at the University of Oklahoma, and recent graduate of AEA’s Graduate Education Diversity Internship (GEDI) program.  During my work at the Urban League of Greater Oklahoma City, we completed an evaluation of the agency’s Strategic Plan. Here, I present a few salient lessons about cultural responsiveness …

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GEDI Week: Ashaki Jackson, Stewart Donaldson, and John LaVelle on the GEDI Program

Leave a Comment / Graduate Student and New Evaluators, Multiethnic Issues in Evaluation / November 30, 2013

Hi, we are Ashaki Jackson, Stewart Donaldson, and John LaVelle, and we are the leaders and coordinators of the American Evaluation Association’s Graduate Education Diversity Internship program (GEDI).  November 24-29 is the GEDI sponsored week, and we thought it best to share some important resources about the GEDI program itself (www.eval.org/GEDI). Hot Tip: Program Overview. …

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Cultural Competence Week: Blake Pearson on Just Good Evaluation: Conversations with Evaluators about Culturally Responsive Evaluation

1 Comment / Graduate Student and New Evaluators, Multiethnic Issues in Evaluation / November 9, 2013

Hello, I’m Blake Pearson, a doctoral student at the University of the Incarnate Word in San Antonio, Texas and a member of the AEA Public Statement on Cultural Competence in Evaluation Dissemination Working Group. I am a part of a subgroup compiling supplemental materials (annotated bibliography, links, favorites) for the AEA website. Today, I’d like …

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LAWG Week: Ann Emery on Conference Tips for Novice Evaluators

1 Comment / Graduate Student and New Evaluators / January 16, 2016

Greetings, I’m Ann Emery from Innovation Network in Washington, DC. I also blog at www.emeryevaluation.com and tweet from @annkemery. DC is a great hub for evaluation! We’re home to the Washington Evaluators, an AEA affiliate, and we’re also close to the Baltimore Area Evaluators and the Eastern Evaluation Research Society. I’m thrilled that the #Eval13 …

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GSNE Week: A Rae Clementz on Planning Your Best AEA Annual Conference Experience

1 Comment / Graduate Student and New Evaluators / August 9, 2013

My name is A Rae Clementz, and I am the senior Graduate Student and New Evaluator (GSNE) Topical Interest Group (TIG) Co-Chair. I’ve been attending the AEA annual conference now for seven years, and though it remains the best, friendliest, and most energizing professional conference I’ve ever attended, it has grown and changed a LOT …

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GSNE Week: Zoraya Cruz-Bonilla on How to Share and Track Changes in Excel

Leave a Comment / Graduate Student and New Evaluators, Integrating Technology into Evaluation / August 8, 2013

Greetings, I am Zoraya Cruz-Bonilla from Binghamton University in New York. As a data research assistant, I have come across all sorts of data both big and small. Regardless of the size, each project solicits the expertise of multiple evaluators; therefore, it is not unusual for more than one person to work on the same …

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GSNE Week: Laura Pryor and Nichole Stewart on Data Science for Evaluators

1 Comment / Data Visualization and Reporting, Graduate Student and New Evaluators / August 7, 2013

Greetings we are Laura Pryor and Nichole Stewart, graduate students and recent alumnae of AEA’s Graduate Education Diversity Initiative (GEDI) program (2011-2012 cohort). Laura is an incoming doctoral student at UC Berkeley’s Graduate School of Education and Nichole is a fifth year doctoral student in University of Maryland Baltimore County’s Public Policy department with a …

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GSNE Week: Kate Svensson and Barbara Szijarto on Evaluating Knowledge Mobilization

1 Comment / Collaborative, Participatory and Empowerment Evaluation, Graduate Student and New Evaluators, Organizational Learning and Evaluation Capacity Building / August 5, 2013

Hello!  We’re Barbara Szijarto and Kate Svensson, graduate students at the University of Ottawa.  We’re involved in a Government of Canada funded knowledge mobilization project called ‘Engagement: Mobilizing Community Involvement’ through the Centre for Research in Educational and Community Services (CRECS).  Our role is to aid in the evaluation of the initiative. Evaluating a knowledge …

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GSNE Week: Kristin Woods on Gaining Practical Experience as a New Evaluator

Leave a Comment / Graduate Student and New Evaluators, Teaching of Evaluation / August 5, 2013

I am Kristin Woods, a co-chair for the Graduate Student and New Evaluators Topical Interest Group (GSNE TIG); I am a PhD student at Oklahoma State University in the Research, Evaluation, Measurement, and Statistics program and a faculty member at Southwestern Oklahoma State University. As a graduate student, I took an applied program evaluation course …

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Ann Emery on Aha Moments for Novice Evaluators

6 Comments / Graduate Student and New Evaluators / November 27, 2012

Greetings! I’m Ann Emery from Innovation Network in Washington, DC. I also tweet and blog about my adventures as a nonprofit and foundations evaluator. Lessons Learned: Are you a recent graduate or novice evaluator? If so, you’ve probably already made tremendous professional and personal growth. Congratulations! However, you’ve probably also learned that evaluation is challenging! As I followed the #evalAHA hashtag …

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