Hi AEA365 readers! I am Sara Vaca, independent consultant and frequent Saturday contributor to this blog and while many of you will be coming back from AEA2019 (lucky you!), here I come with the results of the short-experiment-post of last month, where I collected data about evaluators’ reading speed. First of all, thanks for the …
Conclusions On Evaluators’ Reading Speed by Sara Vaca Read More »
Hi AEA365 readers! I am Sara Vaca, independent consultant and frequent Saturday contributor to this blog, and I am coming today with a short-experiment-post, aiming to collect data (about evaluators’ reading speed) and come back to you with the results. It all started some days ago when I was finally reading Kylie Hutchinson’s book A …
Reading Speed And Evaluation by Sara Vaca Read More »
Hi again! I’m Sara Vaca, independent evaluation consultant and one of the frequent contributors to Saturday posts in this blog. As a newbie in academic circles (I started writing 5 years ago, shortly after started evaluating), I am going to share my thoughts about bibliography sections, both as an author and as a reader. Basically, …
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Hi, I’m Sara Vaca, independent consultant, helping Sheila curate this blog and occasional Saturday contributor. I haven’t been an evaluator for a long time (about 5 years now), but I have facilitated or been part of 16 evaluations, so I start getting over the initial awe of the exercise, and I am starting to be …
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Hi! We are Sara Vaca (EvalQuality.com) and Pablo Vidueira (professor at the Universidad Politécnica de Madrid). Today we are going to talk about the benefits of using the latest advances in data visualization to improve ST tools. Systems Thinking (ST) is the new paradigm in Evaluation which represents a significant mind-set shift and a powerful …
Hi! This is Miriam Jacobson, a Doctoral Student, and Tarek Azzam, an Associate Professor, at Claremont Graduate University. We are talking today about how to use online crowdsourcing to conduct RoE (Research on Evaluation). Online crowdsourcing is a process of recruiting people online to do specific tasks, such as completing a survey, categorizing information, or translating text. We …
Who We Are: We are a team of three scholars working cross-continentally: Jori N. Hall, University of Georgia, Leanne M. Kallemeyn and Cliff McReynolds, Loyola University Chicago, and Nanna Friche, Danish Institute for Local and Regional Government Research, Copenhagen. In 2011 we started a conversation on differences and similarities in evaluation practice across North America …
We are Chris Coryn and Lyssa Wilson from the Interdisciplinary Ph.D. in Evaluation program at Western Michigan University. In the last decade, research on evaluation theories, methods, and practices has increased considerably. Even so, little is known about how frequently published findings from research on evaluation are read and whether such findings influence evaluators’ thinking …
Hi there! I’m Anne Vo, Assistant Professor of Clinical Medical Education and Associate Director of Evaluation at the Keck School of Medicine of USC. I’m also Program Chair of the Research on Evaluation TIG. I’ll share a bit about what we have learned about evaluation use within the education sector. Evaluation & Knowledge Use The …
ROE TIG Week: Anne Vo on Decision Research in Education Read More »
Greetings! I’m Leslie Fierro, Assistant Clinical Professor of Evaluation at Claremont Graduate University and AEA Research on Evaluation TIG Chair. This week, aea365 is focusing on Research on Evaluation (RoE). As an avid fan of this topic, I’ll offer a working definition for RoE and provide some thoughts on where future fruitful research may emerge …
ROE TIG Week: Research on Evaluation – A Glance Towards Integrative Evaluation Science Read More »
