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Susan Kistler on AEA on LinkedIn and LinkedIn’s New Endorsement Feature

My name is Susan Kistler. I am the American Evaluation Association’s Executive Director and aea365’s regular Saturday Contributor. Today, we’re talking all things LinkedIn! Rad Resource – AEA’s LinkedIn Group: AEA’s LinkedIn Community has over 9000 subscribers from around the world and is open to anyone with an interest in evaluation. It’s free (always worth …

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Innovative #Eval Week: Jean King and Laura Pejsa on What We Learned from “Learning by Doing”

1 Comment / Graduate Student and New Evaluators, Teaching of Evaluation / November 30, 2012 November 27, 2012

Jean King and Laura Pejsa, Minnesota Evaluation Studies Institute (MESI), here, with broad smiles on our faces. We are the proud coaches who are wrapping up this week of posts written by our creative student consultants about ways to evaluate a conference (using exit surveys of Ignite sessions, network visualizing, Twitter, and video clips). Progressive …

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Ann Emery on 10 Things You Didn’t Learn in School

6 Comments / Graduate Student and New Evaluators, Independent Consulting / October 29, 2012 September 27, 2012

Greetings, I’m Ann Emery from Innovation Network in Washington, DC. I also tweet and blog about evaluation. If you recently completed your graduate or undergraduate degree, congratulations! You’ve already learned some of the key elements of evaluation. However, evaluation involves more than theory, methods, and statistical formulas. Hot Tips: Here are 10 things you probably …

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Jennifer Miller on Building Trusting Customer-Consultant Relationships

Leave a Comment / Graduate Student and New Evaluators, Independent Consulting / August 16, 2012 August 12, 2012

Hi, I’m Jennifer V. Miller. For my entire career, I’ve been in some sort of consultative role – either internally as a human resource generalist and training manager in corporate America, or for my consulting company SkillSource. When you are a consultant your primary role is to assess, then make recommendations for improvement. It’s my …

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Ayesha Tillman on Finding an Entry to Mid-Level Evaluation Position within a Government Agency

1 Comment / Graduate Student and New Evaluators / August 14, 2012 August 6, 2012

Hello, I am Ayesha Tillman, a fourth year Ph.D student in Educational Psychology at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (Illinois). I received my Bachelor of Science in Psychology and my Master of Arts in Research Psychology and never dreamed of working in evaluation. After receiving my MA, but prior to coming to Illinois, I worked as …

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Chelsea Heaven on Why Graduate Students Interested in Evaluation Should Consider Volunteering

Leave a Comment / Graduate Student and New Evaluators, Health Evaluation / August 13, 2012 August 2, 2012

Greetings, I am Chelsea Heaven, a recently graduated master’s level biostatistics and public health student. As with many of my fellow recent graduates, I am always on the lookout for as many opportunities as possible to kick-start my young career in statistics and evaluation. A colleague of mine who I work with at my campus’ …

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Gisele Tchamba on Learning the Difference between Evaluation and Research

4 Comments / Graduate Student and New Evaluators / August 1, 2012 February 2, 2013

Hello, I am Gisele Tchamba, a PhD candidate in the Interdisciplinary PhD in Evaluation program (IDPE) at Western Michigan University. During the three years I spent in this program I came to understand that knowing the difference between evaluation and research matters. I found myself defining evaluation and explaining the difference to people in various …

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Xiaomei Song on Evaluating a Large-Scale High-Stakes Testing System from the Stakeholder Perspective

Leave a Comment / Graduate Student and New Evaluators, Prek-12 Educational Evaluation / July 17, 2012 July 9, 2012

My name is Xiaomei Song, a PhD Candidate in Assessment and Evaluation, Queen’s University, Kingston, Canada. In the past four years, I have been working on my doctoral degree and a part of my dissertation is to evaluate a large-scale high-stakes testing system from the stakeholder perspective. I have learned a number of lessons along …

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Susan Kistler on Great Professional Development and a Great Blog

Leave a Comment / Graduate Student and New Evaluators / May 19, 2012 May 19, 2012

Ah the joys of a truly beautiful spring day. I am Susan Kistler, the American Evaluation Association’s Executive Director and aea365 Saturday contributor. I’m hoping you’ll join us in Atlanta in a few short weeks for the AEA/CDC Summer Evaluation Institute – but even if you can’t, scroll to the bottom and learn about a …

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Susan Kistler on Free Coffee Break Webinar Series for M&E

Leave a Comment / Graduate Student and New Evaluators, International and Cross-cultural Evaluation, Teaching of Evaluation / May 5, 2012 May 5, 2012

I’m Susan Kistler, the American Evaluation Association’s Executive Director, and aea365 Saturday contributor. Hot Tip: In July, AEA will be offering AEA’s first public Coffee Break Series co-sponsored with our colleagues at Catholic Relief Services, American Red Cross/Red Crescent, the United States Agency for International Development, and AEA’s International and Cross Cultural Topical Interest Group …

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