Hi! I’m Laura Sefton, Project Analyst in the University of Massachusetts Medical School’s Center for Health Policy and Research. Many AEA365 readers use sophisticated statistical software like SPSS, SAS, or Stata for their data analytic needs, but others don’t have ready access to such software and depend on more freely available options like Microsoft Excel. …
Counting and Computing with Microsoft Excel by Laura Sefton Read More »
This is John LaVelle, Louisiana State University, and Yuanjing Wilcox, EDucation EValuation EXchange, members of AEA’s Competencies Task Force. Task Force members recently shared the 2/24/16 draft AEA evaluator competencies in five domains: professional, methodology, context, management, and interpersonal. Feedback in coming months will enable us to finalize the set in preparation for two very …
Future Directions for AEA’s Competencies by John LaVelle and Yuanjing Wilcox Read More »
Hi! This is Sheena Horton again, President-Elect and Board Member for the Southeast Evaluation Association (SEA). I wanted to close out SEA’s AEA365 week by providing you with a few tips for stimulating and maintaining your professional growth. In a similar vein of thought as evaluation being an everyday activity, our own professional growth should be approached as an …
SEA Professional Development Week: Maintaining Your Professional Growth by Sheena Horton Read More »
Hello, again! My name is Dr. Michelle Chandrasekhar and I serve on the Southeast Evaluation Association (SEA) Executive Board. Every year in February, SEA holds an Annual Workshop that offers attendees networking opportunities and a variety of presentations and panel discussions on evaluation issues. At SEA’s 2015 Annual Workshop, the Board facilitated a round table discussion and asked participants to …
My name is Dr. Moya Alfonso, MSPH, and I’m an Associate Professor at the Jiann-Ping Hsu College of Public Health at Georgia Southern University, and I am University Sector Representative and Board Member for the Southeast Evaluation Association (SEA). I would like to offer you a few tips on engaging stakeholders in participatory evaluation based …
Hi, we’re Southeast Evaluation Association (SEA) members Taylor Ellis, a doctoral student and lead evaluator, and Dr. Debra Nelson-Gardell, an Associate Professor, providing consultation at the School of Social Work at The University of Alabama. We form a team tasked with evaluating a program providing community-based, family-inclusive intervention for youth with sexual behavior problems (youngsters …
Hi all! My name is Sheena Horton, President-Elect and Board Member for the Southeast Evaluation Association (SEA). As I have been learning more about the traits of great leaders and how leaders mobilize others, I have found one element that is frequently mentioned: a leader’s influence. Influence may seem like an obvious determinant of a …
SEA Professional Development Week: Leading by Building Influence by Sheena Horton Read More »
I hope your new year’s celebrations were filled with laughter and rest – getting you ready for another year of projects and adventures! Last year I offered some ideas for when creative block strikes, as well as some ideas for generating meaningful online content (other than a blog post). I thought I would revisit …
Let 2017 Be The Year of Engaging Online Content by Liz Zadnik Read More »
Hello Loyal aea365 readers! I’m Sheila B Robinson, aea365’s Lead Curator and sometimes Saturday contributor with one question for you: What is it that YOU would like to read about on this blog? I started posted this blog article two years ago and we received some excellent responses from readers. I then shared these responses in a subsequent post and …
We are the 2016 AEA Minority Serving Institutions (MSI) Fellows: Cirecie West-Olatunji (counselor education-Xavier University of Louisiana), Jeiru Bai (social work-University of Nebraska at Omaha), Kate Cartwright (health administration-University of New Mexico), Smita Shukla Mehta (special education-University of North Texas), and Chandra Story (public health-Oklahoma State University). It seems that it was only a few …
