Mel Mark here, recently retired from Penn State. I’ve long been involved in research on evaluation (RoE). In this post, I want to encourage collaboration between evaluation practitioners and RoE-ers (“rowers,” my term for those who do RoE). First, though, consider the potential value of RoE as shown by a pair of historical examples. In …
Hello, fellow evaluators! We’re Natasha J. G. Monteith, Stacy Huff, and Gabriel Keney, doctoral students at UNC Greensboro in the Educational Research Methodology program. As members of the student-led RoE Lab, we’ve gained invaluable insights into fostering research productivity and professional development among graduate students. As practitioners, it is critical to consider that many graduate …
Hello, we are: Tatiana Bustos, participatory researcher and evaluator, Jennifer Ann Morrow, Associate Professor at the University of Tennessee Knoxville, Mark Mulobi, Senior Associate at Digital Impact Alliance and Co-chair of EvalYouth Global Network, and Esrea Perez-Bill, Research Project Coordinator at Northwestern University. As part of the Research on Evaluation (RoE) TIG’s webinar committee, we …
We, Dana Linnell and Bianca Montrosse-Moorhead, explored this question in an interview study. We interviewed 40 professionals doing applied work (e.g., evaluators, researchers) about their journey into the field, applied practice, and professional identity. This study was published in Evaluation in January 2024. Here’s what we found! 1. Evaluators have unique journeys into the field. …
Hi! I’m Valerie Marshall, an evaluator and doctoral student of evaluation at Western Michigan University. Today, I would like to present some findings from a study about values and valuing in evaluation to encourage you to reflect on how they show up in your practice. Values and valuing are central to what we “do” as …
Greetings! My name is Amy Jersild. I am an independent evaluation professional working internationally and a PhD candidate in Western Michigan University’s Interdisciplinary PhD in Evaluation program. I am excited to share the purposeful sampling approach I adopted for a 3-paper study on the professionalization of evaluation practice. Such a sampling strategy may be of …
Hello, AEA365 readers! My name is Christine Liboon and I’m a doctoral candidate in the Social Research Methodology program at the UCLA School of Education and Information Studies. I am currently the Program Co-Chair for the Graduate Student and New Evaluators TIG (GSNE) as well as Member-at-Large for the Research on Evaluation TIG (RoE). I’m …
Hello! I am Amanda Sutter, long time evaluator, current doctoral student, and newbie researcher. I am excited (and nervous!) to share my first research on evaluation study, give back YOUR data, and share some tips I’ve been learning. Study Overview This study was a response to a literature gap on understanding evaluation practice. Perhaps no …
Hello! We are Rebecca Teasdale (University of Illinois Chicago, USA), Jennifer McNeilly (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, USA), and María Isabel Ramírez Garzón (Pontificia Universidad Javeriana, Colombia). We are excited to share key takeaways from a research study we recently published with Judit Novak (University of Oslo, Norway) and Jennifer Greene (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, USA) …
Hey there! I’m Paisley Worthington, a doctoral candidate studying program evaluation at Queen’s University (Kingston, Canada). Today’s post is about research on evaluation that digs into how the Collaborative Approaches to Evaluation (CAE) principles can be used to foster high levels of participation and co-creation in an online environment. This project was led by myself, …
