Research on Evaluation

I am Janet Arogundade (University of North Carolina, Greensboro), a Ph.D. student in Educational Research Methodology with a Program Evaluation concentration. Before starting Graduate school at UNCG, I spent several years in monitoring and evaluation (M&E) roles. In this post, I share three lessons from the Advanced Evaluation Theory course that transformed how I think […]

Hi, we are Oluchi Anyaibe, a Ph.D. student, and Dr. Sandra Ayoo, Assistant Professor of Educational Research Methodology in the Information, Library, and Research Methodology Department, School of Education at the University of North Carolina Greensboro. Our research on evaluation study explores how supervision and mentoring shape graduate assistants’ career readiness. Graduate assistantships are often

Hello! I’m Ann Marie Castleman with the University of Cincinnati Evaluation Services Center. In evaluation, we often talk about people becoming accidental evaluators. At one point in my evaluation career, I was an accidental evaluation commissioner. I didn’t know what evaluation commissioning was until I was tasked with managing my first external evaluation! Evaluation commissioning

Hi everyone! We’re Jennifer Villalobos, Minji Cho, and Stewart Donaldson from Claremont Graduate University. We’ve been examining RoE studies conducted over the last decade, and in this post, we share what we’ve learned by looking more closely at how they’re actually designed. In our recent open-access article, we reviewed 76 RoE dissertations completed between 2014

Hello! We are Selam Stephanos and Stewart I. Donaldson from Claremont Graduate University. In this post, we share one lesson from our recent review of published Research on Evaluation (RoE) studies. RoE is scholarship that studies evaluation itself, how it is practiced, what methods are used, and what makes it effective. Lessons Learned One key

We are Mercy Blematessa, Eunice Oduro, and Siphelele Qwabe of the Educational Research Methodology Research on Evaluation Lab (ERM RoE Lab) at the University of North Carolina Greensboro. In this post, we reflect on how the ERM RoE Lab has shaped our growth as emerging evaluators and share practical lessons about professional development, applied learning,

Hello! We are Rachael Kenney and Tatiana Bustos, evaluation practitioners who work and conduct Research on Evaluation (RoE) outside university settings. RoE activities are happening inside public, healthcare, and community settings. Yet, opportunities to formalize RoE in these settings can be overlooked. In this blog, we reflect on how we embed RoE in our contexts.

Hi friends, my name is John LaVelle. I am currently at the University of Minnesota, where I am conducting a research on evaluation (RoE) study about what is expected of our doctoral students. I teach advanced classes that emphasize RoE, such as advanced evaluation theory/theorycrafting and the research on evaluation doctoral seminar. Today I’ll share a few

I am Padma Kannan, Ph.D., working as an Evaluation and Research Specialist at the University of Minnesota’s Extension. I earned my Ph.D. in Evaluation Studies within the Organizational Leadership and Policy Development (OLPD) program at UMN, focusing on Research on Evaluation (RoE). Today, I want to share insights and lessons learned as a graduate student,

Hello fellow evaluators! We are Amanda Sutter, Allison Prieur, Valerie Marshall, Rachael Kenney, Kari Ross Nelson, and Christine Liboon, 6 evaluation practitioners with 10 – 19 years of evaluation experience who are studying evaluation across 5 U.S. universities. We teamed up to examine our experiences learning Research on Evaluation (RoE) in our doctoral programs. Our