I’m Pat Campbell, president of Campbell-Kibler Associates, Inc. Under NSF funding, Eric Jolly, president of the Science Museum of Minnesota and I, with the help of a lot of friends, have been generating research-based tips, such as those below, to improve the accuracy of data collection, the quality of the analysis and the appropriateness of …
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My name is Leah Christina Neubauer. I am the President of the Chicagoland Evaluation Association and the Program Manager and an Instructor in the MPH Program at DePaul University. Today, I am writing to extend three updates from the Practice committee of the AEA Public Statement on Cultural Competence in Evaluation Dissemination Working Group. We …
I am Melanie Hwalek, CEO of SPEC Associates and the LGBT TIG’s representative to the AEA Public Statement on Cultural Competence in Evaluation Dissemination Working Group. I accepted responsibility for spearheading the Policy Subgroup of the Workgroup. In this role, I’m responsible for coordinating our Workgroup’s efforts to infuse the Cultural Competency Statement into policy …
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I’m Tamara Bertrand Jones, an Assistant Professor of Higher Education at Florida State University, and on the Training Committee of the AEA Public Statement on Cultural Competence in Evaluation Dissemination Working Group. We are working on disseminating some critical lessons, such as the following. Emphasis on developing not only evaluation competency, but the skills to …
Hello! My name is Karen Anderson, AEA’s former Diversity Coordinator intern. After supporting the Cultural Competence in Evaluation Dissemination Working Group for over a year I became pretty invested in learning more about cultural competence in evaluation. I wish I magically received culturally competent evaluation resources by default, but I had to find them the …
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“Beauty is unity in variety.” (Samuel Coleridge) I am Dominica McBride, CEO of Become, Inc. and member of the AEA Public Statement on Cultural Competence in Evaluation Dissemination Working Group. The above quote is one of the core lessons I have been reminded of through my work on this task force and is quite germane …
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Hi, we’re Cindy Crusto, associate professor, Yale University School of Medicine and Osman Özturgut, assistant professor,University of the Incarnate Word. We are members of the AEA Public Statement on Cultural Competence in Evaluation Dissemination Working Group. We write to remind you of the purpose of the Working Group and the importance of acknowledging the “self” …
My name is Linda Meyer and I am an applied developmental psychology graduate student at Claremont Graduate University. I am going to provide you with a few basic tips to keep in mind as you are planning an educational evaluation with English Language Learners (ELLs) in PK-12. Hot Tip: Find out how students were labeled …
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Welcome aea365 colleagues. I am Stafford Hood, Director of the Center for Culturally Responsive Evaluation and Assessment (CREA) at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. The overall goal of CREA is to encourage evaluation research and practice that is not only culturally sensitive but also culturally responsive. Hot Tip – Attend the 2013 CREA Conference: …
Hello! My name is Karen Anderson and I’m the American Evaluation Association’s Diversity Coordinator Intern. Your participation in today’s post will place you in a drawing for a $50 gift certificate from SAGE Publications! Did you make any New Year’s Resolutions? Even if you’re not a fan of making resolutions during this time of the …
