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Internal Evaluation

Robin Kelly on A Tip on Activating Your Cultural Intelligence

2 Comments / Disabilities and Underrepresented Populations, Health Evaluation, Internal Evaluation / April 23, 2012

Hi, I am Robin Kelly; I work as an internal evaluator for the National Minority AIDS Council, which is a federally funded nongovernmental organization that provides capacity building assistance to community based organizations and health departments that have programs or interventions to address the HIV/AIDS epidemic. I mention it because we work in communities of …

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Corrie Whitmore on Framing an Evaluation Conversation for Programs with Fuzzy Goals

Leave a Comment / Health Evaluation, Indigenous Peoples in Evaluation, Internal Evaluation / May 12, 2012

I’m Corrie Whitmore, an internal evaluator working for Southcentral Foundation. SCF is an Alaska Native Owned and Operated healthcare organization serving approximately 60,000 Alaska Native and American Indian people living in Anchorage, Matanuska-Susitna Valley, and 60 rural villages in the Anchorage Service Unit. Our organization has had program evaluation in-house since 2009, so our small …

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Sarah Gill on the Atlanta-area Evaluation Association Spring Social 2012

2 Comments / Disabilities and Underrepresented Populations, Independent Consulting, Internal Evaluation, Multiethnic Issues in Evaluation, Organizational Learning and Evaluation Capacity Building / March 9, 2012

I’m Sarah Gill, membership chair for the Atlanta-area Evaluation Association (AaEA). Recently AaEA hosted a spring social. The event was inspired by the recent AEA 365 posts making predictions for the future of evaluation. Maureen Wilce, AaEA’s chair for professional development, and I thought the posts would inspire great conversation among our fellow evaluators  – …

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SCEA Week: Bill Shennum & Kate LaVelle on the Multiple Uses of Multiple Data Sources

Leave a Comment / Behavioral Health, Human Services Evaluation, Internal Evaluation / September 2, 2011

Greetings. We are Bill Shennum and Kate LaVelle, staff members in the Research Department at Five Acres, a nonprofit child and family services agency located in Altadena, CA and serving the greater Los Angeles area. We work as internal evaluators to support outcome measurement and continuous quality improvement within the organization. In our roles as …

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Stan Capela on The Philosophical Evaluator

3 Comments / Disabilities and Underrepresented Populations, Internal Evaluation, Nonprofits and Foundations Evaluation / July 19, 2011

As an evaluator I am often confronted by questions that I often think about while taking the Staten Island Ferry at the end of the day. My name is Stan Capela and I am the VP for Quality Management and Corporate Compliance Officer for HeartShare Human Services. I am also the current AEA Government TIG …

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Kathryn Owen on New Directions in Audience Research

Leave a Comment / Arts, Culture, and Museums, Internal Evaluation / July 4, 2011

My name is Kathryn Owen and I am the Education Research Supervisor at Woodland Park Zoo in Seattle, Washington.  I am also one of the PIs on New Directions in Audience Research. New Directions is a partnership between the zoo, the University of Washington Museology Graduate Program, and the Learning in Informal and Formal Education …

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Eun Kyeng Baek and SeriaShia Chatters on the Risks in Internal Evaluation

4 Comments / Internal Evaluation / May 10, 2011

Hello everyone! Our names are Eun Kyeng Baek and SeriaShia Chatters. We are an evaluation team and doctoral students from the University of South Florida. We have served as internal and external evaluators in program evaluations in university settings. Additionally, we have experience in the development and administration of evaluation tools. Serving as an internal …

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IC TIG Week: Norma Martinez-Rubin on Straddling Multiple Organizational Cultures and Communication Styles

Leave a Comment / Independent Consulting, Internal Evaluation / September 1, 2011

I’m Norma Martinez-Rubin, an independent evaluation consultant and Independent Consulting TIG Chairperson 2011. Here I present a few lessons learned in transition from being an external to internal consultant. Claiming to be multicultural boosts the self-confidence required upon beginning a new evaluation project. Combine that with visualization of near success and that increases my confidence …

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Dawn Henderson and Ebun Odeneye on Tips and Strategies for Internal Program Evaluators

1 Comment / Graduate Student and New Evaluators, Internal Evaluation / January 16, 2011

Our names are Dawn Henderson and Ebun Odeneye. We are members of the 2010-2011 cohort of the AEA Graduate Diversity Education Internship (GEDI) Program. New internal evaluators often struggle with balancing general program duties with evaluation-specific responsibilities, so we will be sharing some effective tips to help evaluators facing this same challenge. Hot Tip: As …

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Jane Nell Luster on Internal Evaluation for Special Needs

1 Comment / Disabilities and Underrepresented Populations, Internal Evaluation / December 16, 2010

Greetings. I am Jane Nell Luster, Senior Manager with the Data Accountability Center (DAC) and Assistant Professor at LSUHSC-Human Development Center. DAC is a technical assistance project funded by the U.S. Department of Education, Office of Special Education Programs. DAC’s mission is to “support the submission and analysis of high-quality IDEA [Individuals with Disabilities Education …

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