Winter Greetings Dear aea365 readers! I’m Sheila B. Robinson, your very cold Lead Curator and sometimes Saturday contributor. While I do love the outdoors in winter in western NY state, I’m also inclined to stay in on chilly evenings, and do a little exploring of some of my favorite websites. In early 1998, eval.org had …
Sheila B Robinson on Mining for the Mother Lode on eval.org! Read More »
*AEA365 Curator Note: My apologies to aea365 subscribers! Some of this week’s posts did not go out via email to our subscribers. Please read this post on the site itself (http://aea365.org/blog/), and be sure to scroll back to the first post of this series on December 4 in order to enjoy and learn about the overview …
This is Gail Vallance Barrington, Barrington Research Group, Inc., representing the Canadian Evaluation Society, a member of AEA’s Competencies Task Force. Our Task Force’s charge was to answer one essential question: “What is fundamental to the practice of evaluators?” As an active participant in CES’s Credentialed Evaluator Program, I have been pleased to share our …
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This is Eric Barela, Salesforce.org, Anna Rodell, Collective Progress, and Susan Tucker, Evaluation & Development Associates, members of AEA’s Competencies Task Force. This week we are presenting the competencies our group has drafted in the past 18 months. One grounding question has guided the work of our task force: “What is fundamental to the practice …
This is Dale Berger, Claremont Graduate University, Robin Miller, Michigan State University, and Michelle Gensinger, University of Minnesota, members of AEA’s Competencies Task Force. The competencies included in this 2/24/16 DRAFT Methodology Domain are those that focus on the methodological knowledge and skills fundamental to evaluation practice. Unresolved Issues: In developing the methodology competencies, our Task …
This is Laurie Stevahn, Seattle University, Donna Podems, OtherWISE: Research and Evaluation, and Nicole Galport, Claremont Graduate University, members of AEA’s Evaluator Competencies Task Force. The work of our task force has been guided by a grounding question: What is fundamental to the practice of evaluators? Competencies that comprise the 2/24/16 DRAFT Professional Domain are …
This is Jean King, University of Minnesota, chair of AEA’s Competencies Task Force, and John LaVelle, Louisiana State University, enthusiastic Task Force member. This week we and other members of the Competencies Task Force are excited to share with you our progress toward developing a set of AEA evaluator competencies. To put these efforts in …
Hi! My name is Catherine Callow-Heusser, Ph.D., President of EndVision Research and Evaluation. I served as the evaluator of a 5-year Office of Special Education Programs (OSEP) funded personnel preparation grant. The project trained two cohorts of graduate students, each completing a 2-year Master’s level program. When the grant was funded, our first task was …
Hello! I’m Sheila B Robinson, aea365’s Lead Curator and sometimes Saturday contributor with some “in case you missed it” or “want to relive it” moments from Evaluation 2016, AEA’s annual conference held this year in Atlanta, GA. Lesson Learned: I wasn’t able to attend the conference this year, but I am able to find out …
Sheila B Robinson on Reflections and Continuing the Learning from #Eval16 Read More »
Happy Holidays to aea365 readers! I’m Sheila B Robinson, aea365’s Lead Curator and sometimes Saturday contributor. Whether or not you celebrate some of the many upcoming holidays, let’s talk about YOU and the importance of treating yourself. OK, perhaps I’m being a bit sneaky here because this is really a post about the benefits of becoming …
Sheila B Robinson on Treating Yourself for the Holidays! Read More »
