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ToE TIG Week: Lessons Learned at the 2019 AEA Conference: How to Improve my Teaching of Program Evaluation by Kelly McGinn

Leave a Comment / Teaching of Evaluation / March 13, 2020 March 8, 2020

Hi! I am Kelly McGinn, Assistant Professor of Human Development and Community Engagement (HDCE) at Temple University in Philadelphia, PA. As a recipient of the Sage Early Career Excellence in Teaching Evaluation Award, I reflected on how the conference presentations were able to inform my teaching. AEA stresses the importance of incorporating the evaluator competences into one’s teaching …

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ToE TIG Week: Tips for Teaching Evaluation to Non-profits by Kylie Hutchinson

Hello! I’m Kylie Hutchinson (also known as @EvaluationMaven), an independent evaluation consultant with Community Solutions Planning & Evaluation. Not all teaching of evaluation occurs in the classroom. In fact, I suspect that the bulk of evaluation capacity-building happens during one-day trainings held in the boardrooms and staff rooms of many non-profits. Over the years I’ve …

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ToE TIG Week: Tailoring Evaluation Workshops for the Perfect Fit by JoAnna Hillman

Leave a Comment / Teaching of Evaluation / March 11, 2020 March 6, 2020

Hi there! I’m JoAnna Hillman, Director of Research and Evaluation for Emory Centers for Training and Technical Assistance at Emory University. I do most of my evaluation teaching in a professional development environment (in public health), rather than a traditional classroom setting. I find many learners have been exposed to evaluation theory in their education, …

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ToE TIG Week: Teaching Interpersonal Competencies to Graduate Students by Libby Smith

3 Comments / Teaching of Evaluation / March 10, 2020 March 6, 2020

Hello! I’m Libby Smith (@work_with_libby on Twitter), an educator and evaluator at the University of Wisconsin – Stout. My work focuses on building equity and accessibility through holistic personal growth & embodiment practices. I’ve been Program Director for the Master of Science in Applied Psychology since 2013. We prepare students to be applied researchers and …

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ToE TIG Week: Self-Reflection as a Novice Evaluator: Using Reflection Journals in a Program Evaluation Classroom by Jennifer Ann Morrow, Ph.D

2 Comments / Teaching of Evaluation / March 9, 2020 March 6, 2020

Hi everyone! My name is Jennifer Ann Morrow and I am the program coordinator for the Evaluation, Statistics, and Measurement doctoral program at the University of Tennessee in Knoxville, TN. I have been teaching novice evaluators for the past 18 years. Reflective practice is an important part of what evaluators do. As evaluators we reflect …

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ToE TIG Week: A Second Week of Hot Tips, Rad Resources, and Reflections from Evaluation Educators

1 Comment / Teaching of Evaluation / March 8, 2020 March 7, 2020

Hello! We are Tiffany Smith (@tiffany7001), Aileen Reid, and John LaVelle, the leadership team for the Teaching of Evaluation TIG (ToE TIG). The team is overjoyed: There were so many evaluation educators eager to share their ideas and insights about good teaching of evaluation we’re back for a second week, loaded with more tips, tricks, …

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Using Open Data to Accelerate Data Literacy Learning by Elizabeth DiLuzio

1 Comment / Teaching of Evaluation / March 7, 2020 March 8, 2020

Happy Open Data Week from the great City of New York! On this day in 2012, our Open Data Law was signed, legislating that every NYC department provides its data online via the NYC Open Data Portal. My name is Elizabeth DiLuzio, volunteer curator for AEA365, instructor of Quantitative Methods in Evaluation at New York …

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The Invisible Labor of Women of Color and Indigenous Women in Evaluation by Vidhya Shanker

9 Comments / Feminist Issues in Evaluation, Indigenous Peoples in Evaluation, Multiethnic Issues in Evaluation, Research on Evaluation, Teaching of Evaluation / March 2, 2020 March 5, 2020

I’m Vidhya Shanker from Rainbow Research, where we are exploring what structural change really means. I’m sometimes asked, “Why are there so few people of color in evaluation?” I flip the question: “Why is evaluation so white?” And answer: “Because our labor is actively erased.” Of the 35 recipients of the Paul F. Lazarsfeld Evaluation …

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ToE TIG Week: Walking between worlds: Training evaluation scholar-practitioners to conduct RoE by Christina Peterson, Rachel Ladd, Brenna Butler and Erica Echols

1 Comment / Graduate Student and New Evaluators, Research on Evaluation, Teaching of Evaluation / February 21, 2020 February 16, 2020

We – Christina Peterson, Rachel Ladd, Brenna Butler, and Erica Echols – are doctoral students in the Evaluation, Statistics, and Measurement program at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. As part of a recent study on evaluation scholar-practitioner identity, we interviewed students, alumni, and faculty from evaluation doctoral programs. Understanding the ways in which evaluators come …

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ToE TIG Week: Applying Principles of Dialogue Education for Adult Learners of Evaluation by Elizabeth Henry

Leave a Comment / Teaching of Evaluation / February 20, 2020 February 16, 2020

I’m Elizabeth Henry, and I work as a mixed-methods evaluation researcher in global health at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. I also teach program evaluation at the Boston University School of Public Health. As instructors, too often we present content without allowing sufficient space and time for processing. In this blogpost I’m …

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