This is part of a series remembering and honoring evaluation pioneers leading up to Memorial Day in the USA (May 30). My name is Mark W. Lipsey, Director of the Peabody Research Institute at Vanderbilt University. No one such as myself who was around in the 1970s when program evaluation came of age could fail …
This is part of a series remembering and honoring evaluation pioneers leading up to Memorial Day in the USA (May 30). My name is Jennifer Greene, a former AEA President and former co-editor of New Directions for Evaluation. Egon Guba, as both a scholar and a person, left an enduring transformative legacy to the field …
This is part of a series remembering and honoring evaluation pioneers leading up to Memorial Day in the USA (May 30). I am Rodney Hopson, Professor of Education Policy and Evaluation at George Mason University and former (2012) President of AEA. Asa G. Hillard III (Baffour Amankwatia II), is one of the evaluation pioneers documented …
This is part of a series remembering and honoring evaluation pioneers leading up to Memorial Day in the USA on May 30. My name is Mel Mark, a former AEA President and former editor of the American Journal of Evaluation. Don Campbell used pithy phrases to communicate complex philosophical or methodological issues. My favorite was: …
This is the beginning of a series remembering and honoring evaluation pioneers leading up to Memorial Day in the USA on May 30. My name is Sara Miller McCune, Co-founder and Chair of Sage Publications. In 1975, Sage published the 2-volume Handbook of Evaluation Research co-edited by Marcia Guttentag. That Handbook helped establish Evaluation as a distinct field of …
AEA365 Curator note: Today, along with the next two Saturdays will be part of a very special two-week series. My name is Michael Quinn Patton of Utilization-Focused Evaluation and former AEA president. In conjunction with Memorial Day in the USA (May 30) I am coordinating and editing two weeks of AEA365 contributions from distinguished evaluation …
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Hello! I’m Sheila B Robinson, aea365’s Lead Curator and sometimes Saturday contributor with a fabulous learning opportunity for evaluators who work with linguistically diverse stakeholders (and I’ll bet that’s most of us!), and are concerned with cultural competence in our evaluation work. Duolingo is a crowdsourced, engaging, gamified, free language learning platform whose “ultimate goal is to give …
Hi! We are Laurene Christensen and Vitaliy Shyyan from the National Center on Educational Outcomes. NCEO is a federally-funded technical assistance center that works primarily with state departments of education to help improve outcomes for students with disabilities, English learners, and English learners with disabilities. Our work often involves a national reach, including gathering information …
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My name is Evangeline Danseco, and I work at the Ontario Centre of Excellence for Child and Youth Mental Health. We work with mental health agencies to enhance organizational and community capacity to implement and evaluate evidence-informed practices. End-users and target audiences for programs and services are key stakeholders; engaging these groups at the very …
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We are Lauren Baba and Carol Cahill with the Center for Community Health and Evaluation (CCHE), part of Group Health Research Institute (GHRI) in Seattle. Our team of consultants works with various stakeholders to evaluate community health initiatives, clinic-community linkages, and health improvement coalitions. We are always brainstorming new ways to make evaluation reports creative, …
