Hi! I’m Laura Sefton, Project Analyst in the University of Massachusetts Medical School’s Center for Health Policy and Research. The school’s Lamar Soutter Library gives me access to a database of peer-reviewed journals and resources like Science Citation Index and PubMed to inform the literature searches and survey instrument research that I conduct for many …
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Hello! I’m Siobhan Cooney, Principal Consultant of Cooney Collaborative and avid podcast listener. Once I transitioned into consulting and started working at home, podcasts became a “go-to” form of professional development. With podcasts, I can learn while taking care of mundane household tasks and carting my kids to and from school. Here I highlight my …
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Hello! I’m Sheila B Robinson, aea365’s Lead Curator and sometimes Saturday contributor. Hey, it’s been awhile since we have talked about evaluators and their blogs! There are more than 60 evaluators out there blogging away, sharing their work, their knowledge, their resources, and their creative ideas. Get to know them! Some blog daily, some weekly, …
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Hello! We are Monica Hargraves and Miranda Fang, from the Cornell Office for Research on Evaluation. We presented together at Eval2012 would like to share some practical tips on literature searches in the context of evaluation. 2016 Update: Monica Hargraves is now Associate Director for Evaluation Partnerships at the Cornell Office for Research on Evaluation; Miranda Fang is now Manager, …
Hi, we’re Eva Bazant, evaluation staff at Jhpiego, and Vandana Tripathi, consultant to global public health programs. Jhpiego is an affiliate of Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland, working to improve maternal, newborn and child health globally. In many sectors, such as education, observations are used for professional evaluation. We are sharing lessons learned from an experience …
We are Sonia Worcel, Vice President of Strategy and Research, and Kim Leonard, Senior Evaluation Officer, at The Oregon Community Foundation (OCF). The research team at OCF conducts internal evaluations as well as oversees contractors for some external evaluations. We use Evaluation Advisory Groups (EAGs) for our internal evaluations, and currently have EAGs for three …
I am Kim Leonard, Senior Evaluation Officer at The Oregon Community Foundation. Today I want to share lessons learned from a developmental evaluation we’re undertaking for our five-year arts education grantmaking initiative – Studio to School. The nature of this Initiative is developmental and rooted in the arts. Creativity, adaptation, and risk are supported. The …
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I am David Keyes, Researcher, from The Oregon Community Foundation. The Research team at The Oregon Community Foundation (OCF) is currently conducting program evaluations of several OCF grantmaking initiatives, including an out-of-school-time initiative, intended to help close the achievement gap by supporting quality improvement and expansion of out-of-school time programming. Twenty-one grantee organizations with a …
We are Caitlin Ruffenach, Researcher, and Kim Leonard, Senior Evaluation Officer, from The Oregon Community Foundation (OCF). Among other things, we are working on an evaluation of the Studio to School Initiative at OCF, which focuses on the development of sustainable arts education programs through partnerships between arts organizations and schools. This past summer, in …
I am Sonia Worcel, Vice President of Strategy and Research at The Oregon Community Foundation (OCF). This week AEA365 features a series of posts from OCF’s research team highlighting lessons learned through several of our ongoing evaluations. Today I start by sharing more generally about our evaluation efforts. At OCF we are committed to documenting …
