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MSI Fellowship Week: Julia Lechuga on Culturally Competent Evaluation: A Reflection from a Health Psychologist

Hello. My name is Julia Lechuga and I am honored to be part of the AEA 2015 Minority Serving Institution (MSI) fellowship program. This year’s cohort was tasked with inquiring the manner in which different academic fields conceptualize the practice of culturally competent evaluation. Deep thought regarding the meaning of this statement for the practice …

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Sheila B Robinson on the Annual Call for Blog Posts!

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 2016. 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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Laura Sefton, Judy Savageau, and Linda Cabral on Post-Project Debriefings as Part of Performance Improvement

Hi! We’re Laura Sefton, Judy Savageau, and Linda Cabral from the University of Massachusetts Medical School’s Center for Health Policy and Research (CHPR). Often, performance improvement isn’t built into an evaluation project because it can take time that we feel we don’t have when the next project needs our attention. However, we have found that …

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Sherry Campanelli and Laura Newhall on Evaluating the Full Potential of Your Staff

Hi. We’re Sherry Campanelli, Program Compliance Manager, and Laura Newhall, Clinical Training Coordinator, from the University of Massachusetts Medical School’s Disability Evaluation Services (DES). As an organization, we are committed to utilizing all of our resources to enhance our services for people with disabilities. We believe that employees are an organization’s most important asset and …

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Lori Wingate and Daniela Schroeter on Introducing the Evaluation Questions Checklist for Program Evaluation

We are Lori Wingate and Daniela Schroeter from Western Michigan University (WMU). Until recently we both worked at the WMU’s Evaluation Center (Daniela is now in the School of Public Affairs and Administration), where we had the opportunity to work on evaluations, conduct research on evaluation, and teach evaluation to a broad audience and in …

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Chithra Adams on Evaluating with a Design Attitude

I’m Chithra Adams, a program evaluator at the Human Development Institute, University of Kentucky. I explore how design principles and research can be applied to program evaluation. Rad Idea – Design attitude: Designers have a particular mindset and attitude towards problem solving. According to Boland and Collopy (2004), this mindset will help managers constantly strive …

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Liz Zadnik on Alternatives to Creating an Evaluation Blog or Writing a Blog Post

Hi there wonderful readers!  Liz Zadnik here with my first Saturday post of the new year.  I have been struggling with what to write and thought some of you might be feeling the same way, so I came up with some activities, resources, and ideas to get you started.   Let me first say, that …

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Sally Laskey, Kris Bein, and Liz Zadnik on How Self-Assessments Can Strengthen Sexual Assault Services

Hi there! We’re Sally Laskey, Outreach Director at the National Sexual Violence Resource Center, Kris Bein, Resource Sharing Project Assistant Coordinator at the Iowa Coalition Against Sexual Assault, and Liz Zadnik, Capacity Building Specialist with the New Jersey Coalition Against Sexual Assault. We’ve worked together to strengthen a self-assessment tool for advocates working with survivors of …

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Haley Stewart, Elise Waln, Sharyn Worrall and Yvonne Kellar-Guenther on Using a Modified Photo Voice Approach

Hi. The four of us, Haley Stewart, Elise Waln, and Sharyn Worrall–students in a practiced-based learning evaluation course at the Colorado School of Public Health–along with our instructor, Yvonne Kellar-Guenther, conducted an evaluation for a city in Colorado. Our goal was to capture the voices of residents who typically do not have the opportunity to …

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