Hello everyone—Laurie Stevahn (Seattle University) and Jean King (University of Minnesota) here—continuing to grapple with issues relevant to program evaluator competencies (whether essential sets exist) and usefulness (if enhanced practice results). In fact, for over a decade we have been working on a formal set of evaluator competencies, trying to answer the daunting question of …
Happy New Year! We’re Leslie Goodyear, Jennifer Jewiss, Janet Usinger, and Eric Barela, the co-leaders of the AEA Qualitative Methods TIG. All four of us are practicing evaluators with a passion for bringing the stories and experiences of evaluation stakeholders to the fore. For the past few years, as part of editing a book together, …
Hi, my name is Ayana Perkins, the programming Co-Chair of the Atlanta-area Evaluation Association as well as Senior Research Analyst and Evaluator at Infinite Services and Solutions. I am a qualitative enthusiast and often train other evaluators and researchers in these methods. What I have noticed is that participants are more likely to right to …
Hi folks! I’m JT Taylor, Director of Research and Evaluation at Learning for Action (LFA), and I’m here with my colleague Emily Drake, Senior Consultant and Director of Portfolio Alignment. LFA is a San Francisco-based firm that enhances the impact and sustainability of social sector organizations through evaluation, research, strategy development, and capacity-building services. Emily …
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We are Karen Countryman-Roswurm, Executive Director, and Bailey Patton, Community Outreach Coordinator, at Wichita State University’s Center for Combating Human Trafficking (CCHT). CCHT provides education, training, consultation, research, and public policy services to build the capacity for effective anti-trafficking prevention, intervention, and aftercare responses. A primary service of CCHT is training organizations on The Lotus …
Hello, we are Linda Cabral and Jillian Richard-Daniels from the Center for Health Policy and Research at University of Massachusetts Medical School. Collecting and reporting data on a set of predefined measures is something that many evaluators are asked to do. This typically quantitative process involves gathering data, often from multiple sources and stakeholders, to …
I am Bob Kahle, a veteran evaluator and frequent AEA workshop presenter. As owner of Kahle Research Solutions, a research and evaluation firm with a qualitative methods focus, I am writing today to offer practical tips to leverage new tools enabled by advancing technology. Lesson Learned: Ease into it. Most evaluators are aware of tools …
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I am Humberto Reynoso-Vallejo, a private consultant on health services research. In a recent study, my colleague Lee Staples (Boston University) and I explored Immigrant Workers Centers (IWCs), community-based organizations that have been developed in the United States to promote and protect workers’ rights through support, services, advocacy, and organizing initiatives. We examined how IWCs …
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I am Bob Kahle, a veteran evaluator and qualitative researcher. I want everyone’s voice to be heard. Group dynamics, whether in a focus group, planning or work group meeting can sometimes be hijacked by one or two people’s counterproductive behavior. As evaluators, we often find ourselves in the role of moderator. Based on AEA’s Guiding …
Bob Kahle on Preventing and Managing Problem Behavior in Groups Read More »
Hello! We are Artineh Samkian and Joelle Greene. Artineh is an Assistant Professor of Clinical Education at USC and Joelle is a Senior Research Associate at Harder+Co in Los Angeles. Recently, we worked together to conduct an implementation evaluation of a place-based effort funded by First 5 LA. Because we are both very interested in …
