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ECLIPS & Systems TIG Week: David Hata on Looking to Interconnections for Value Creation

1 Comment / STEM Education and Training, Systems in Evaluation / March 18, 2013 March 18, 2013

Hello! I’m David Hata, an independent consultant who serves as an external evaluator for a number of NSF-funded Advanced Technological Education (ATE) projects and centers. I’m here to share my experience helping a STEM project see itself as part of a system that creates value. For some clients, success is doing a lot of activities. …

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ECLIPS & Systems TIG Week: Beverly Parsons and Veronica Thomas Welcome You to ECLIPS Week

Leave a Comment / STEM Education and Training, Systems in Evaluation / March 17, 2013 March 17, 2013

Greetings! We are Beverly Parsons (InSites and ECLIPS principal investigator) and Veronica Thomas (Howard University and ECLIPS external advisor). Today we introduce you to an exploratory research project, Evaluation Communities of Learning, Inquiry, and Practice about Systems (ECLIPS). It’s funded through a National Science Foundation grant to InSites. The ECLIPS Community of Practice is 15 …

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Bloggers Series: Eric Sarriot on the Sustainable Human and Social Development Blog

Leave a Comment / International and Cross-cultural Evaluation, Systems in Evaluation / January 10, 2013 January 10, 2013

Hello! I’m Eric Sarriot and I am the Director of the Center for Design and Research in Sustainability (CEDARS) at ICF International. I would like to introduce you to the CEDARS blog, on Sustainable Human and Social Development, its planning and evaluation (definitely within a Global/International Development perspective). Rad Resource – Sustainable Human and Social …

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MNEA Week: Pat Seppanen on Evaluating Complex Adaptive Systems

Leave a Comment / Systems in Evaluation / October 14, 2012 September 28, 2012

My name is Pat Seppanen. I’ve worked as an evaluator now for more than 20 years. A good part of my practice has centered on evaluating complex change—initiatives designed to address human needs and community problems that do not fit into established program and policy categories. If concepts like non-linearity, emergence, adaption, uncertainty, and coevolution …

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Wilder Research Week: Brian Pittman on Complex Systems

2 Comments / Nonprofits and Foundations Evaluation, Systems in Evaluation / August 9, 2012 July 27, 2012

Hello, I am Brian Pittman, a Research Associate at Wilder Research. Our work involves many different topics, scopes, and stakeholders, but an increasing proportion of our projects deal with complexity. Therefore, we work to learn and use the principles and practices of complex systems in our work. This post includes a brief primer of the …

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Rashon Lane, Alberta Mirambeau, and Steve Sullivan on an Innovative Method to Evaluate Changes in Public Health Priorities and Activities through Alignment Scoring Analysis

Leave a Comment / Health Evaluation, Systems in Evaluation / June 21, 2012 June 22, 2012

Hello, we are Rashon Lane, Alberta Mirambeau from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and Steve Sullivan from Cloudburst Consulting and we work together on an evaluation aimed at assessing the uptake, use and impact of national public health hypertension recommendations by the Institute of Medicine (IOM). If you’ve ever wondered how to assess …

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MN EA Week: Craig Helmstetter on ‘Evaluating’ your community

2 Comments / Systems in Evaluation / March 14, 2012 February 23, 2012

Hello. I’m Craig Helmstetter, a Senior Research Manager at Wilder Research, a division of the Amherst Wilder Foundation in Saint Paul, Minnesota (right across the Mississippi from Minneapolis). Remember that quartet that was playing as the Titanic sank? How good were they? If your answer was “Who cares?!! The ship was sinking!!”, then you probably …

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Jeff Wasbes on Causal Loop Diagrams

5 Comments / Data Visualization and Reporting, Systems in Evaluation / October 16, 2011 October 16, 2011

I am Jeff Wasbes, a Senior Researcher and Project manager with Research Works, Inc., an independent evaluation consulting firm. A simple and functionally useful tool for diagramming systems is the Causal Loop Diagram (CLD). CLDs have been applied in nearly every conceivable discipline because by just using some very basic elements, one can describe the …

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EPE Week: Matt Keene on Fuzzy Logic Models – Embracing and Navigating Complexity

3 Comments / Environmental Program Evaluation, Systems in Evaluation / April 17, 2011 April 20, 2011

My name is Matt Keene; I work with the Environmental Protection Agency and coordinate the Environmental Evaluators Network. Chris Metzner (freelance graphic designer and data visualization artist) and Jeff Wasbes (independent evaluation consultant with ResearchWorks, Inc.) helped enormously with this post. In 2009 Oregon became the first state to enact a law requiring paint manufacturers …

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