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Cultural Competence Week: Dominica McBride and Leah Neubauer on Critically Reflecting and Thinking about Cultural Competence in Your Evaluation Practice

1 Comment / Teaching of Evaluation / May 27, 2013

Hello, we’re Dominica McBride and Leah Neubauer, members of the AEA Public Statement on Cultural Competence Dissemination Working Group. At AEA 2012, we participated in the brownbag session Critically Reflecting and Thinking about Cultural Competence in Your Evaluation Practice. We’d like to share some of the great insights generated from this session. In this session, …

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Innovative #Eval Week: Jean King and Laura Pejsa on What We Learned from “Learning by Doing”

1 Comment / Graduate Student and New Evaluators, Teaching of Evaluation / November 27, 2012

Jean King and Laura Pejsa, Minnesota Evaluation Studies Institute (MESI), here, with broad smiles on our faces. We are the proud coaches who are wrapping up this week of posts written by our creative student consultants about ways to evaluate a conference (using exit surveys of Ignite sessions, network visualizing, Twitter, and video clips).  Progressive …

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Innovative #Eval Week: Schwalbe, Miller, and Gensinger on #EvalAHA! What Can Twitter Tell Us about the AEA Conference?

2 Comments / Data Visualization and Reporting, Integrating Technology into Evaluation, Teaching of Evaluation / November 29, 2012

Hi, we’re Anne Schwalbe, Keith Miller, and Michelle Gensinger, graduate students in the Evaluation Studies Program at the University of Minnesota. We chose Twitter as a platform for exploring creative evaluation methods at the AEA Annual Conference. These are the questions we hope to answer with our analysis: How was Twitter used during the conference? …

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Innovative #Eval Week: Jean King and Laura Pejsa on Evaluating the Evaluators’ Conference: The Ultimate Student Challenge

Leave a Comment / Teaching of Evaluation / November 25, 2012

Greetings from Jean King and Laura Pejsa from the Minnesota Evaluation Studies Institute (MESI) at the University of Minnesota. This week we will be introducing you to a crop of graduate student evaluators who (we think) made quite a splash at the AEA conference last month.  If you attended, you may have seen one or …

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Susan Kistler on Filling Your Evaluation Tookbox through eStudy This Fall

1 Comment / Teaching of Evaluation / September 23, 2012

My name is Susan Kistler. I am the American Evaluation Association’s Executive and aea365’s regular Saturday contributor. We’ve been writing a lot lately about AEA’s upcoming conference, Evaluation 2012. Today, I wanted to provide an update on our fourth quarter eStudy workshops – three foundational offerings for filling your evaluation toolbox, even if you can’t …

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Susan Kistler on Four Free Coffee Break Demonstration Recordings on International Monitoring and Evaluation

Leave a Comment / Collaborative, Participatory and Empowerment Evaluation, International and Cross-cultural Evaluation, Teaching of Evaluation / September 9, 2012

I’m Susan Kistler, the American Evaluation Association’s Executive Director, and aea365 regular Saturday contributor. Earlier this year, I announced that AEA would be hosting a public series of our normally members-only coffee break webinars. The four video series, held in July, focused on different aspects of International Monitoring and Evaluation. First, thanks to everyone who …

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Maxine Gilling on Lessons Learned from a Study of How Politics Influence Evaluation Policy

Leave a Comment / Research on Evaluation, Teaching of Evaluation, Theories of Evaluation / August 15, 2012

Hello, I am Maxine Gilling, Research Associate for Gaining Early Awareness and Readiness for Undergraduate Programs (GEAR UP). I recently completed my dissertation entitled How Politics, Economics, and Technology Influence Evaluation Requirements for Federally Funded Projects: A Historical Study of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act from 1965 to 2005. In this study, I examined …

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Susan Kistler on the Community Toolbox

1 Comment / Advocacy and Policy Change, Collaborative, Participatory and Empowerment Evaluation, Community Psychology, Nonprofits and Foundations Evaluation, Teaching of Evaluation / June 3, 2012

I’m Susan Kistler, the American Evaluation Association’s Executive Director and aea365 Saturday contributor. Today I’m writing from Atlanta and the AEA/CDC Summer Evaluation Institute. I wanted to share a bit more about a great resource originally mentioned by Susan Wolfe in her August 2010 post. Rad Resource – The Community Toolbox: The Community Toolbox provided …

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Susan Kistler on Free Coffee Break Webinar Series for M&E

Leave a Comment / Graduate Student and New Evaluators, International and Cross-cultural Evaluation, Teaching of Evaluation / May 5, 2012

I’m Susan Kistler, the American Evaluation Association’s Executive Director, and aea365 Saturday contributor. Hot Tip: In July, AEA will be offering AEA’s first public Coffee Break Series co-sponsored with our colleagues at Catholic Relief Services, American Red Cross/Red Crescent, the United States Agency for International Development, and AEA’s International and Cross Cultural Topical Interest Group …

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Dawn Henderson on Consider Telling a Story

Leave a Comment / Collaborative, Participatory and Empowerment Evaluation, Community Psychology, Teaching of Evaluation / March 23, 2012

Hello, I am Dawn Henderson, a doctoral student pursuing a community psychology concentration in the Psychology in the Public Interest program at North Carolina State University. In a faraway land, and maybe for some, right in the backyard we are involved in evaluation work with non-profit organizations. If you are like me, then this experience …

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