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Discovering Triangulation: Grounding and Lessons Learned by John LaVelle

My name is John LaVelle from Louisiana State University.  It is my pleasure to lead a number of evaluation and applied methodology courses for graduate and undergraduate students.  All of my courses include service-learning and experiential learning components to help reinforce the learning objectives and provide operational/conceptual support for community partners. A concept that that …

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Demand and Supply Sides of Evaluation by Abdul Majeed

Hi all and Happy New Year 2017. I’m Abdul Majeed, M&E officer at Free & Fair Election Forum of Afghanistan (FEFA) in Kabul.  We increase public awareness on the importance of evaluation and the magnificent result it can have on improvements in the management of any organization. I have the honor of establishing the M&E …

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Considering Logic Model Inputs for Sustainability by Kirk Knestis

Kirk Knestis (Hezel Associates CEO) here again with more thoughts about ways logic models can inform an evaluator’s work and potentially benefit the program managers and innovation developers with whom we work. One area where I think our contributions may often be underutilized is that of sustainability of the evaluand programs or innovations we study. …

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Kicking Outputs out of Logic Models by Kirk Knestis

Kirk Knestis at Hezel Associates back with the promised “additional post” about logic models, this time challenging the orthodoxy of including “outputs” in such representations. Irrespective of the style of model used to illustrate the theory behind a program or other innovation, it’s been my experience that inclusion of “outputs” can create confusion, often decreasing …

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A Pathway to Logic Modeling Freedom by Kirk Knestis

Kirk Knestis, CEO of Hezel Associates and huge logic model fan, back on aea365 to share what I think are useful tweaks to a common logic modeling approach. I use these “Conditional Logic Models” to avoid traps common when evaluators work with clients to illustrate the theory of action of a program or innovation being …

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An Annual Call for Blog Posts! by Sheila B Robinson

Greetings aea365 readers AND authors! I’m Sheila B Robinson, aea365’s Lead Curator and sometimes Saturday contributor. A few weeks ago, I wrote this post asking what you would like to read about on aea365 in 2017. Many thanks to those who offered comments with ideas for posts. Now, I’m writing to ask YOU to consider contributing a post on …

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Implementing Electronic Case Records in Social Service Agencies Part II by Aaron Gunning and Laura Beals

Hi again! We are Aaron Gunning, Database Implementation Manager, and Laura Beals, Director of the Department of Evaluation and Learning, from Jewish Family and Children’s Services (JF&CS) a large multi-service nonprofit located near Boston, MA. In yesterday’s post, Laura and I introduced the idea of using electronic case records (ECR) as an evaluation tool. The …

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Using Electronic Case Records for Evaluation in Social Service Agencies Part I by Aaron Gunning and Laura Beals

Hi! We are Aaron Gunning, Database Implementation Manager, and Laura Beals, Director, of the Department of Evaluation and Learning at Jewish Family and Children’s Service (JF&CS), a large multi-service nonprofit located near Boston, MA. We are fortunate that our evaluation team includes two client database administrators/developers, which allows us to maximize the technology for our …

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Approaching Document Review in a Systematic Way by Linda Cabral

Greetings AEA365 readers.  I’m Linda Cabral from the University of Massachusetts Medical School’s Center for Health Policy and Research.  Many evaluations that I’ve been a part of in my 15+ year career have required a review of existing program documents.  This has involved a range of documents such as program descriptions, meeting minutes, proposals and …

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Evaluative Thinking as a Way of Doing Business by Guy Sharrock, Tom Archibald and Jane Buckley

Greetings! We’re Guy Sharrock (Catholic Relief Services), Tom Archibald (Virginia Tech), and Jane Buckley (JCBConsulting). Following a much earlier aea365 post dated April 29, 2012, Evaluative Thinking: The ‘Je Ne Sais Quoi’ of Evaluation Capacity Building and Evaluation Practice, we’d like to describe what we are learning from our evaluative thinking (ET) work in Ethiopia …

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