Greetings Everyone (and graduate students in particular)! My name is J. R. Moller and I am a first year Ph.D. student within the Educational Research Methodology Department at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. Prior to starting my Ph.D., I worked in evaluation and was trained on the job. I learned a lot, but …
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Hello! My name is Adeyemo Adetogun, I’m a doctoral student in the Education Research Methodology department at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro (UNCG). My area of concentration is in program evaluation with a focus on Science Technology Engineering and Math (STEM) fields. The very notion that we can evaluate anything, including evaluation itself, …
Hello, my name is Jeremy Acree and I’m a Ph.D. student at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro (UNCG), focusing primarily on research methods and program evaluation. I previously worked as a middle school math teacher, and the connections between teaching and evaluation have been interesting to explore. I’m particularly drawn to the ways …
My name is Ayesha Boyce and I am an assistant professor within the Educational Research Methodology Department at the University of North Carolina Greensboro. Our department offers a comprehensive curriculum in program evaluation with a social justice focus. Jill Anne Chouinard, Tiffany Smith, and I teach classes in program evaluation and research methodology where we …
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This is a post in the series commemorating pioneering evaluation publications in conjunction with Memorial Day in the USA (May 28). My name is Sharon Rallis, a former AEA President and editor of the American Journal of Evaluation. Carol Weiss was a pioneering sociologist and program evaluator who helped create the field of evaluation. She was my …
Hi, I’m Steve Powell, a freelance evaluator. I’m really interested in theories of, about, and within evaluation, and the conceptual headaches they can bring with them. Sometimes as evaluators we are so busy with practical challenges that we don’t have much time to worry if there is sufficient agreement about the meaning of the words …
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Hello. I’m Eric Barela, Measurement & Evaluation Senior Manager at Salesforce.org and current Board Member of the American Evaluation Association. I’m here to share how I use prescriptive evaluation theories in my everyday practice. I have been an internal evaluator for over 15 years and have worked in a variety of organizations, from school districts …
Hello! I am Gisele Tchamba, past Chair of Behavioral Health TIG and Founder of ADR Evaluation Consulting. Valuing from the Fourth Generation Evaluation (FGE) Perspective – Evaluation theorists in the valuing branch of Alkin’s theory tree have different views of valuing. Some share the perspectives of Third Generation Evaluation in which the evaluator as judge …
Hi y’all! I’m Jessica Shaw, Assistant Professor in the Boston College School of Social Work, and Program Chair of the Theories of Evaluation TIG. I teach program evaluation to social work clinicians in their final semester in graduate school. They are an eager bunch—to graduate that is, not so much to learn about evaluation theory. …
Hello! My name is Lyssa Wilson Becho and I currently serve as the Chair of the Theories of Evaluation TIG. I am also an evaluator at Western Michigan University’s Evaluation Center and a doctoral student in the Interdisciplinary Ph.D. in Evaluation at Western Michigan University. I am excited to kick off this AEA365 week sponsored …
