Hello AEA community, my name is Dr. Tjip Walker, and I would like to share some thoughts about boundaries. I spent a decade at the US Agency for International Development coordinating efforts to embed systems thinking into that agency’s operations, including the way it monitored and evaluated its programs. Since then, I have set up …
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Hello Everyone! My name is Omodolapo Ojo, I am a doctoral candidate at the Department of Educational Research Methodology at the University of North Carolina Greensboro. My research work and hands-on practices focused on investigating equity and inclusion in evaluation efforts. Specifically, I adopt systems thinking principles in my work and would like to share …
Hello! We’re Katie Winters and Beverly Parsons. We are two systems-oriented evaluators with a cumulative 60+ years of evaluation experience spanning education, public health, and environmental sustainability. Evaluation’s orthodoxies are grounded in empiricism. That which can be perceived with the 5 senses is deemed legitimate in the dominant western worldview. If you can see, smell, …
We are Tanushree Banerjee, doctoral student in the Research, Assessment and Evaluation concentration and Dr. Lisa Abrams, a Professor of Research, Assessment, and Evaluation in the School of Education at Virginia Commonwealth University. We are part of a research team working to evaluate the implementation and outcomes of a teacher residency program (TRP). In Virginia, …
I’m Mari Gasiorowicz; I am an internal evaluator, and I lead capacity-building for Systems Thinking at Public Health Madison & Dane County, Wisconsin. Over the last 35 years, I have also worked in state government, international development, and consulting. My current focus is on Systems Thinking—seeing the big picture and focusing on interactions as much …
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Hi! My name is Jan Noga, one of the founding members of the Systems in Evaluation TIG (SETIG) and one of its first program co-chairs (with Bob Williams). Evaluation 2024 marked the 20th anniversary of the SETIG. Returning to Portland after 18 years marked another major landmark for the TIG – our first full conference …
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Hi! We are the outgoing co-chairs of the American Evaluation Association Systems in Evaluation Topical Interest Group (SETIG). I’m Hayat Askar, an evaluator from the MENA region, actively engaged in international evaluation work. I have worked in both international development and government—two distinct but connected systems—and I believe evaluation has a unifying role, bridging differences …
Hi there, this is Marah Moore (Director of i2i Institute) and Beverly Parsons (Executive Director of InSites), writing about what the SETIG foresees as next steps in our Systems in Evaluation journey. Developing the Systems in Evaluation Principles required a deep dive into the interaction between systems thinking and evaluation practice. While we recognized other …
Hola! My name is Pablo Vidueira. I am an evaluation researcher and consultant working with the Global Alliance for the Future of Food. As a researcher and consultant, I found myself using the Principles for Effective Use of Systems Thinking in Evaluation in both the evaluation and research arenas as well as the design and …
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Hello! I am Brandon Coffee-Borden and I served as Program Co-Chair of the Systems in Evaluation Topical Interest Group (SETIG) during 2015 to 2018. This blog post will describe how I have used the Principles for Effective Use of Systems Thinking in Evaluation to support my practice around data interpretation and analysis in a systems-informed …
