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ToE TIG: Co-Creating a Living Laboratory to Cultivate Socially Responsive Evaluators by Kathleen Doll, Jennifer Villalobos and Leslie Fierro

Leave a Comment / Teaching of Evaluation / February 19, 2020 February 14, 2020

Greetings! We are Kathleen Doll and Jennifer Villalobos (doctoral students at Claremont Graduate University (CGU)), led by Leslie Fierro (Evaluation Professor at CGU). In Winter 2018 we launched the “Educating Socially Responsive Evaluators Project” with our colleagues at the Community Engagement Center (CEC) at Pitzer College, one of the five undergraduate institutions within the Claremont …

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ToE TIG Week: Applying an Adaptive Change Framework to the Teaching of Evaluation by Kristie A. Thomas

3 Comments / Teaching of Evaluation / February 18, 2020 February 14, 2020

My name is Kristie A. Thomas, PhD, MSW and I am a recipient of the 2019 AEA/SAGE Early Career Excellence in Teaching Awards. The Teaching of Evaluation Topical Interest Group asked me to reflect on what I learned at the conference and share some tips and tricks I have learned from teaching evaluation to graduate-level, …

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ToE TIG Week: Teaching Evaluation Well in Specific Contexts by Sue Hamann

Leave a Comment / Teaching of Evaluation / February 17, 2020 February 14, 2020

Hello. My name is Sue Hamann. I have been a member of AEA for more than 20 years and a practicing evaluator for almost 40 years. I currently work as a Science Evaluator for the federal government, and I also teach program and policy evaluation. My students are of two categories: (1) seasoned scientists, PhDs …

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ToE TIG Week: Introducing a week of teaching and learning about evaluation by John LaVelle, Tiffany Smith and Aileen Reid

Leave a Comment / Teaching of Evaluation / February 16, 2020 February 14, 2020

Hello! We are John LaVelle (University of Minnesota), Tiffany Smith (@tiffany7001, University of North Carolina at Greensboro), and Aileen Reid (University of North Carolina at Greensboro). We are the leadership team for the Teaching of Evaluation TIG (ToE TIG), and we are thrilled to introduce this week of posts on teaching and learning about evaluation. …

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PE Standards Week: Connecting Measurement, Research, and Evaluation (An Educational Perspective) by Juan D’Brot

4 Comments / Teaching of Evaluation / February 7, 2020 February 1, 2020

Greetings! My name is Juan D’Brot, Senior Associate at the Center for Assessment. I serve as the National Council on Measurement in Education (NCME) representative for the Joint Committee on Standards for Educational Evaluation and will be discussing the relationship among measurement, research, and evaluation. My first job out of graduate school (Research and Evaluation …

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PE Standards Week: Evaluating Evaluation with Standards or Evaluating Evaluator with Competencies by Sandra Ayoo

Leave a Comment / Teaching of Evaluation / February 6, 2020 February 1, 2020

I am Sandra Ayoo, a graduate of the Evaluation Studies Program at the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities. As an accidental evaluator, I practiced program evaluation as a sideline job on a part-time basis for a couple of years until 2008 when I decided to make it a full-time job. Interestingly, I had no idea that …

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PE Standards Week: A Delicate Balancing Act: Encouraging Stakeholders’ Participation in an Emotionally Charged Context by Rosalie Hirch & Brandi Geisinger

1 Comment / Teaching of Evaluation / February 5, 2020 February 1, 2020

Hello! We are Rosalie Hirch and Brandi Geisinger, from the Research Institute for Studies in Education at Iowa State University. Sometimes we work with emotional situations for students who feel vulnerable, especially if they’re from traditionally marginalized groups. As a result, when we conduct organizational climate studies, we often find unique challenges in getting students …

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PE Standards Week: Evaluation Standards and Quality Evaluation Practice by Michael Harnar

Leave a Comment / Teaching of Evaluation / February 4, 2020 February 1, 2020

My name is Michael Harnar. I have been in the evaluation discipline for about 16 years and for the last 2.5 years I’ve been an assistant professor in the Interdisciplinary PhD in Evaluation program at Western Michigan University. I believe that the core of evaluation is about providing judgments of value and that Michael Scriven’s …

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PE Standards Week: Lessons Learned from Developing Program Theory, Applying Culturally Responsive Evaluation, and Integrating Program Evaluation Standards by Rodney Hopson & Aneta Cram

1 Comment / Teaching of Evaluation / February 3, 2020 February 1, 2020

We are Rodney Hopson, former (2012) AEA President and Professor of Evaluation (Educational Psychology: QUERIES) at the University of Illinois-Urbana Champaign, and Aneta Cram, Ph.D. student at Victoria University of Wellington in New Zealand and AEA Program Chair for the Indigenous Peoples in Evaluation Topical Interest Group. In a recently published article for Evaluation Matters …

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PE Standards Week: (Re)Introducing the JCSEE Program Evaluation Standards by Brad Watts

1 Comment / Teaching of Evaluation / February 2, 2020 February 4, 2020

Hello! My name is Brad Watts, Assistant Director of The Evaluation Center at Western Michigan. In addition to my duties as a professional evaluator, I am also currently serving as Chair of the Joint Committee on Standards for Educational Evaluation (JCSEE), the organization responsible for developing, reviewing, and approving evaluation standards in North America, including …

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