Military and Veteran’s

Hello, my name is Stephen Axelrad – the founder and chair of the Military and Veteran Evaluation Topical Interest Group.  One of the reasons why I wanted to start this TIG was to broaden the military’s understanding of what program evaluation is and broaden program evaluator’s understandings of what the military community is.  While there …

Memorial Day Week: Defining Evaluation in the Military by Stephen Axelrad Read More »

I am Len Bickman, AEA Past-President, Professor Emeritus, Vanderbilt University, and currently Research Professor, Center for Children and Families, Florida International University and President, Feedback Research Institute. Today, I am offering lessons from a quarter-century old evaluation widely known as the Fort Bragg Evaluation. I examined the effectiveness of mental health services delivered in a …

Memorial Day Week: The Fort Bragg Evaluation: A military setting that created evaluation history by Len Bickman Read More »

Hello! It’s Stephen Axelrad and Lara Hilton, the Co-Chairs of the Military and Veteran Evaluation TIG. We will be sharing experiences evaluating military programs where context can sometime constrain design. This information should be of interest to a broad group of evaluators who assess programs where the setting may dictate or limit the kinds of …

MVE TIG Week: Military Evaluation Methods: Maintaining Rigor when Context Limits Design Choices by Stephen Axelrad and Lara Hilton Read More »

Hi, my name is Rhodri Dierst-Davies, an evaluation specialist with Deloitte Consulting LLP working out of our Government & Public Services (GPS) practice. Similar to civilian populations, the use of electronic cigarettes (e-cigarettes) has steadily increased among Active Duty and Reserve personnel over the past decade. While e-cigarettes are now more popular than traditional cigarettes …

MVE TIG Week: Emerging Health Topic: Electronic Cigarette use Among Military Personnel by Rhodri Dierst-Davies Read More »

Greetings from Pam Imm and Abe Wandersman of the Wandersman Center in South Carolina. We’ve been fortunate to be team members evaluating programs across a variety of settings.  In addition, as educators and writers in empowerment evaluation, there have been plenty opportunities to share information about various components of evaluation (e.g., process evaluation, data-informed decision …

MVE TIG Week: Lessons Learned Working with the Military by Pam Imm and Abraham Wandersman Read More »

My name is Lara Hilton. I am a behavioral scientist conducting program evaluation in military health settings. In today’s post, I’ll share how I build evaluation capacity for clients in my military health practice so they might conduct continuous program improvement once we complete the formal evaluation. This information translates outside military context and will …

MVE TIG Week: Evaluation Capacity Building in Military Health Evaluation and Beyond by Lara Hilton Read More »

Hello, my name is Stephen Axelrad. I am the founder and chair of the Military and Veteran Evaluation (MVE) Topical Interest Group (TIG).  I am excited to kick off MVE TIG Week on AEA365.  I founded this TIG to raise awareness and promote greater use of AEA guiding principles and evaluation theory and methods in …

MVE TIG Week: Being at the “tip of the spear” of important social issues: Why evaluators should pay attention to the military in understanding and contributing to positive social change? By Stephen Axelrad Read More »