My name is Staci Wendt and I am a Research Associate at RMC Research in Portland, Oregon. Last year, I completed my Ph.D. in Applied Psychology at Portland State University. After finishing my degree, I was concerned about how to stay current with statistical literature and how to practice techniques that I learned in school, …
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Greetings. My name is Ricardo Gomez and I currently work as a Research and Evaluation Associate for the National Collegiate Inventors and Innovators Alliance. I am also a doctoral candidate in International Education at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, Center for International Education, and alumnus of the AEA-Duquesne University Graduate Diversity Internship Program. The opinions …
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Hello, my name is Juan Paulo Ramírez, independent consultant, sole owner of “GIS and Human Dimensions, L.L.C.” How many times have you used spreadsheets or sophisticated statistical software (i.e., SAS, SPSS) to estimate frequencies of a population and you asked yourself: is it really necessary to do this using very expensive and sophisticated software? Or, …
Juan Paulo Ramírez on Google Refine – The tool of the year for evaluators! Read More »
I’m Susan Kistler, the American Evaluation Association’s Executive Director, and aea365’s Saturday contributor. Our eStudy director just announced the lineup for January and February! Lesson Learned: AEA’s eStudy offerings are online, real-time, webinar-based training right from your desktop with no need to fly, or get lost in traffic, or lose extra time away from work, …
Hello! We are Katrina Brewsaugh, and Stephen Brehm. We are the Data Team at One Hope United, an agency providing a wide range of child and family services in Illinois, Missouri, and Florida. Evaluators are often tasked with measuring how a program is meeting performance measures and making recommendations on whether programs that are not …
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My name is Christine Paulsen and I own Concord Evaluation Group. We evaluate media and technology-based initiatives. We regularly integrate usability testing with program evaluation to provide our clients with a more comprehensive picture of how their technologies and initiatives are performing. As evaluators, you know that many of the programs that we evaluate today …
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My name is Philippe Buteau and I am an analyst at my own small co-owned firm, Buteau and Lindley. Back in May, Susan Kistler briefly wrote about Google Refine on aea365 and prompted me to take a look. Since then, I have used Refine in a number of ways and thought that I would submit …
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My name is Dan Jorgensen and I currently serve as the evaluation and research coordinator for the State Personnel Development Grant at the Colorado Department of Education. My primary responsibilities involve the evaluation of six state initiatives including Response to Intervention, Positive Behavioral Interventions and Supports, Autism/Significant Support Needs, Early Childhood, Communities of Practice, and …
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My name is Allen Blair and I’m not an evaluator per se, but rather a statistician. I work with evaluators to assist with statistical analyses and I am posting to aea365 to share three favorite blogs for those who are ‘numbers people’, although I think that they are actually more useful for those who find …
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Salutations aea365ers. I am David Hawkins, closet dummy. I have read Wine for Dummies so that I can order wine in a restaurant without getting fleeced. I bought Birds for Dummies when my daughter wanted a parakeet. Costa Rica for Dummies is helping me to plan an upcoming vacation. But as far as I know, …
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