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SIOP Week: Elizabeth Rupprecht on Using mTurk to Collect Evaluation Data

Hello! I’m Elizabeth Rupprecht, an Industrial Organizational Psychology graduate student at Saint Louis University. I would like to tell you more about a great resource for collecting national or international evaluation data—Amazon’s Mechanical Turk (mTurk). mTurk is normally used to provide organizations with assistance completing tasks. Typically, an organization will set up a “task,” such as …

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MaryAnn Sorensen Allacci on Spatial Analysis

Hello – I’m MaryAnn Sorensen Allacci, Director of Projects for Environmental Health, Knowledge, & Action, Inc. We provide a wide range of evaluation and advocacy services that focus on improving people’s well-being by improving their environments. As a result, we will often work on community environmental health issues that require our consideration of many levels …

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Cindy Banyai on Creative Tech Tools for Participatory Evaluation

5 Comments / Collaborative, Participatory and Empowerment Evaluation, Integrating Technology into Evaluation / January 28, 2011 January 12, 2011

I am Dr. Cindy Banyai and I am the Executive Director of the Refocus Institute, a consultancy specializing in planning and training in participatory evaluation using visual methods. I have recently returned to the U.S. from working and researching in Asia, where I was a member and an editor for the English language journal of …

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Susan Kistler on Learning From and Reporting Subscriber and Pageview Data

Leave a Comment / Data Visualization and Reporting, Integrating Technology into Evaluation / January 8, 2011 September 1, 2011

I’m Susan Kistler, the American Evaluation Association’s Executive Director, and I contribute each Saturday’s aea365 post. The start of the year seemed like a good time to look reflectively at 2010 monitoring data for aea365. Lesson Learned – Compile information from multiple sources: Back in May, I wrote about monitoring blog use using Feedburner and …

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Luisa Guillemard on Using Diigo to Facilitate the Research Process

3 Comments / Collaborative, Participatory and Empowerment Evaluation, Integrating Technology into Evaluation / December 21, 2010 December 11, 2010

Hello, I’m Luisa Guillemard, and I’m a psychology professor at the University of Puerto Rico, Mayaguez Campus. I want to share a tool that is very helpful for organizing your bookmarks and sharing them with others. I’m talking about Diigo, a social bookmarking tool that is available for free in the Internet. Rad Resource: Diigo …

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Stuart Henderson on Using Screen Recording and Think Alouds in Evaluation Practice

Leave a Comment / Integrating Technology into Evaluation, Qualitative Methods / December 20, 2010 December 4, 2010

My name is Stuart Henderson. I am the Associate Director of Evaluation for the Clinical and Translational Science Center at the University of California, Davis. We recently used a combination of screen recording software and think aloud methodology to conduct an evaluation of an innovative software program. I’d like to share how screen recording software …

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Sudharshan Seshadri on Resources for Program Evaluation

Leave a Comment / Evaluation Use, Extension Education Evaluation, Human Services Evaluation, Integrating Technology into Evaluation, Social Work / December 19, 2010 September 6, 2011

Hello! My name is Sudharshan Seshadri and I am currently pursuing my Masters degree in Professional Studies specializing in Humanitarian Services Administration. I started to realize that “data” is being considered as a most promising feature to understand the activity of evaluation. To abstract the data needs, I believe as an evaluator, we should be …

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Steve Fleming on Using Data Visualization to Communicate with Stakeholders

6 Comments / Integrating Technology into Evaluation / November 30, 2010 October 18, 2010

My name is Steve Fleming, and I am a Senior Systems Analyst for the National Center for Educational Achievement (NCEA) in Austin, TX. 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 of educators and leaders to create educational systems of …

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Felix Blumhardt on Simplifying the Data Collection Process with User-Friendly Workbooks

7 Comments / Evaluation Use, Integrating Technology into Evaluation / November 15, 2010 October 21, 2010

My name is Felix Blumhardt and I am a Lead Evaluator at The Evaluation Group, an independent evaluation firm in Columbia, SC. My colleague, Michael Pesant, and I have had the pleasure of working with a Teacher Quality Partnership Project over the last year and one of the challenges that we have come across has …

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VSA Week: Ellenbogen on Evaluating Identity Development in Informal Learning Environments

Leave a Comment / Arts, Culture, and Museums, Integrating Technology into Evaluation, Qualitative Methods / October 28, 2010 November 24, 2010

My name is Kirsten Ellenbogen. I’m Director of Research & Evaluation at the Science Museum of Minnesota and President of the Visitor Studies Association. I hope you’re enjoying VSA Week on AEA365. Rad Resource: Development of individual identity has for some time been considered an outcome of informal learning environment experiences. But identity has recently …

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