Hello! My name is Laura Keene, owner of Keene Insights, a one-woman consulting shop based in sunny Los Angeles, California. Over the past nine years, I’ve worked as both an internal and an external evaluator in a variety of settings. For many organizations, especially smaller nonprofits, working with me is their first introduction to evaluation. …
OL-ECB Week: Laura Keene on Activities for Evaluation Training Read More »
I’m Jeff Sheldon from Claremont Graduate University and today I’m sharing the Readiness for Organizational Learning and Evaluation (ROLE) instrument because I think it’s a vastly under-utilized resource that evaluation practitioners should consider when they want to find out whether an organization is a learning organization or ready for an evaluation. In my own research …
I’m Joseph Bauer, Chair of the Organizational Learning-Evaluation Capacity Building Topical Interest Group (OL-ECB TIG), here with Allison Titcomb, ALTA Consulting/ Arizona Evaluation Network (AZENET) /Local Affiliate Collaborative (LAC). We have prepared this post as a model activity that reflects joint purposes of the OL-ECB and the LAC. The OL-ECB TIG and the Local Affiliate …
Greetings! I am Tania Rempert, a Research Associate at University of Illinois, Champaign. This post is written together with my colleagues Leanne Kallemeyn, David Ensminger, and Megan Polanin from Loyola University in Chicago. We would like to share our preliminary findings of a case study examining evaluation coaching activities that have taken place at the …
Welcome to the Chicagoland Evaluation Association’s (CEA) week of AEA 365. My name is Leah Christina Neubauer and I am the President of CEA. CEA has organized a stimulating week of posts that address the evaluation-related work of our members. As the lead post for the week, I offer insights and resources related to the …
CEA Week: Leah C. Neubauer on Adult Education, Planning for Learning & AEA 2012 Read More »
Hello, we are Greg Lestikow, CEO and Fatima Frank, Project Manager of evalû, a small consulting firm that focuses exclusively on rigorous evaluations of social and economic development initiatives. We champion impact evaluation that maintains academic rigor but is based entirely on our clients’ need to improve strategic and operational effectiveness and increase profitability. We …
Greg Lestikow and Fatima Frank on Three Basic Evaluation Presentations Read More »
My name is Cassandra O’Neill and I work at Wholonomy Consulting. We are frequently asked to identify goals and develop action plans in our work. We have developed a flexible thinking and action planning tool which we are sharing widely. We originally developed this tool to help early childhood professionals develop meaningful quality improvement action …
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Hi! I’m Fran Butterfoss, President of Coalitions Work, a group that helps coalitions build and sustain community change efforts to promote health and prevent disease. Coalitions are powerful vehicles for building the skills of professionals and volunteers, thereby empowering them to advocate and act on behalf of priority populations within their communities. Since training and …
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My name is David Brewer, Senior Extension Associate for the Employment and Disability Institute at Cornell University. Professional development isn’t always about listening to a presenter, watching a slide presentation, and asking a few questions. True learning with measurable student impact in mind involves relationship building Lesson Learned: Creating our own Evidence. You don’t have …
Hi! We are Marguerite Dimgba and Sheila Robinson Kohn, Professional Learning Center Director and Policy Board Chair, from Greece Central School District in Rochester, NY. While Guskey indicates that this level of evaluation cannot be completed at the end of a professional development (PD) session or even multi-session course, we do begin to gather data …
