Internal Evaluation

GEDI Week: Michelle Corbett on Working with Organizations to Build Their Internal Evaluation Capacity

Hello! I am Michelle Corbett, alumna of the AEA Graduate Education Diversity Internship (GEDI) program’s 2012-2013 cohort. For my internship, I worked at the Planning Council for Health & Human Services in Milwaukee, WI. A non-profit, community-based organization, the Planning Council offers planning, research, and program evaluation services to a wide range of organizations and …

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Christine Johnson and Terri Anderson on the Quality Improvement – Evaluation Connection

Hi, we are Christine Johnson and Terri Anderson, members of the Massachusetts Patient Centered Medical Home Initiative (MA-PCMHI). MA-PCMHI is Massachusetts’ state-wide, multi-site PCMH demonstration project engaging 46 primary care practices in organizational transformation to adopt the PCMH primary care model.  Our roles as Transformation and Quality Improvement Director (Christine) and Qualitative Evaluation Study Team …

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Kylie Hutchinson on The Internal Evaluator’s Carol

I’m Kylie Hutchinson, AEA Member, independent evaluator and owner of Community Solutions Planning & Evaluation, occasional aea365 contributor, and annual writer of Christmas carols for evaluators and not-for-profits. Each year, I adapt a carol to share with my colleagues and clients. Last year, Susan Kistler asked if I would share one with aea365 and I’m …

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IE Week: Andrew Anderson on The Role of InternalEvaluators inSupporting the Implementation of Evaluation Recommendations

My name is Andrew Anderson and I’m the manager of an internal evaluation team in one of Australia’s largest charities, The Benevolent Society. One of our guiding principles is to make our evaluations useful. But when we surveyed our 800 staff two years ago they told us that, although they valued evaluation, they didn’t think …

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IE Week: Hilary Loeb and Kelly Bay on Enhancing the Quality and Quantity of Survey Responses at Program Events

We are Hilary Loeb and Kelly Bay of the Research and Evaluation Department at the College Success Foundation.  Many of our scholarship and support programs host events in which we collect data from students and educators.  As internal evaluators, we often rely on colleagues to collect and enter survey data from these groups. The results …

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IE Week: Alicia McCoy on Using an Internal Blog to Support a Research and Evaluation Culture

My name is Alicia McCoy and I am the Research and Evaluation Manager at Family Life in Melbourne, Australia.  Family Life is a community service organization that offers a diverse range of services for families, children and young people, including family support, counseling, and mediation. In 2009, Family Life established an internal research and evaluation …

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IE Week: Rahel Wasserfall on The Power of the Dissonant Story

My name is Rahel Wasserfall. I am an internal evaluator and do program development for the International Summer School on Religion in the Public Life (ISSRPL). I’m also affiliated with the Women Studies Research Center at Brandeis University and use mostly qualitative methods, including participant observation and in-depth interviews. As an evaluator with nine years …

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IE Week: Stan Capela on Tips from the Trenches: Building Your Brand as an Internal Evaluator

My name is Stan Capela, and I am the VP for Quality Management and the Corporate Compliance Officer for HeartShare Human Services of New York. I have devoted my entire career to being an internal evaluator in the non-profit sector since 1978. In graduate school, you develop a wide range of skills on how to …

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IE Week: Ann Emery on Why I love Internal Evaluation

Greetings aea365 community! I’m Ann Emery and I’ve been both an external evaluator and an internal evaluator. Today I’d like to share a few of the reasons why I absolutely love internal evaluation. Lessons Learned: Internal evaluation is a great career option for fans of utilization-focused evaluation. It gives me opportunities to: Meet regularly with Chief Operating Officers and Executive …

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Boris Volkov on Yet Another Role of the Internal Evaluator

We welcome you to join the Internal Evaluation week! My name is Boris Volkov. I’m Chair of IE TIG, working at the Center for Global Health (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta). All next week you’ll hear from our members, internal evaluators from different fields and organizations will share practical examples and lessons from …

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