My name is Susan Kistler. I am the Executive Director of the American Evaluation Association and author of aea365’s Saturday posts. Today, I wanted to call to your attention the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) Better Life Index (BLI). OECD launched the BLI in May, describing it as a “new, interactive index that …
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Hi! My name is Natalia Kosheleva. I’m a consultant at Process Consulting Company, Moscow, Russia. Here I would like to share my ideas about measuring the extent of program intervention into targeted systems. I base my work on two systems thinking principles. The Hierarchy principle says that any system is an element of some larger …
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My name is Steve Fleming, and I work for the National Center for Educational Achievement, a department of ACT, Inc. whose mission is to help people achieve education and workplace success. I also earned an M.S. in Statistics from the University of Texas at Austin. I have been thinking a lot lately about how to explain …
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Hello, I’m Jessica Foster, a Research and Evaluation Analyst at Franklin County Children Services. Our agency provides child protective services for the Central Ohio area. During the course of my career, I have administered many surveys to a variety of stakeholders and clients. I’ve learned from my work and from the experiences shared by my …
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My name is Manolya Tanyu and I am a researcher at American Institutes for Research (AIR), a behavioral and social science research organization to support education, educational assessment, health, international development, and work and training. My former organization, Learning Point Associates recently merged with AIR. Our world is a nested one where individuals are influenced …
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I am Andrew F. Hayes, an associate professor at Ohio State University, where I serve on the faculty in the School of Communication and the Department of Psychology. Though formally trained as an experimental social psychologist, I am a quantitative psychologist by vocation and at heart and have devoted the last several years thinking and …
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My name is Guili Zhang. I am an Assistant Professor of Research and Evaluation Methodology at East Carolina University. During the last ten years, I have evaluated the National Science Foundation’s SUCCEED program, and developed and analyzed the SUCCEED longitudinal database, which includes data from nine universities and spans 20 years. Our research team’s publications …
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Hi, my name is Dr. Jeremy Jewell, and I am an Associate Professor in the Clinical Child and School Psychology Program at Southern Illinois University Edwardsville. For several years, I have helped our local probation department evaluate various risk assessment measures as well as programs for probationees. When evaluating the effectiveness of a program, one …
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I’m Gene Shackman, an applied sociologist in Albany, NY. A project of mine is the website “Free Resources for Program Evaluation and Social Research Methods.” One tool for researchers is data and data analysis. There are many commercial programs, but for small non profits, especially in these poor economic times, the cost of these packages …
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AEA365 began on January 1, 2010. Before we promoted this resource, we reached out to dedicated authors who believed in the project in order to populate the site with starter content. Those who contributed in week 1 wrote for an audience of fewer than 10. One year later we have over 1500 subscribers and are …
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