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Leah Goldstein Moses on Tips for Facilitating Active Participant Engagement

I’m Leah Goldstein Moses, Founder and CEO of The Improve Group and adjunct professor at the University of Minnesota’s Humphrey School of Public Affairs. The Improve Group’s evaluation practice embeds capacity building – building the skills, systems and tools needed for organizations to conduct evaluations. In the last few years, we teach more and more …

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Mary Kane on Valuing Voice in Planning and Evaluation: Isn’t it Obvious?

I’m Mary Kane, President of Concept Systems, Inc. and a specialist in stakeholder engagement. I’ve served as a community organization leader and strategic facilitator for groups of all kinds, and then as the lead resource for Group Concept Mapping. I’m lucky that my work connects the face to face aspects of facilitation consulting with a …

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Saville Kushner on Asking What’s on your mind besides your hat?

Hello there!  Saville Kushner, Professor of Public Evaluation at the University of Auckland.  I am here to share some reflections on fear and formulas. I was in a seminar recently, listening to a woman talk about her fear of entering into evaluation. I remembered fears of mine from when I was new to evaluation and …

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Liz Zadnik on Not Having Anything Radical to Say, Just a Desire to Show People How to Evaluate and Have Fun Doing It

Hey there!  Liz Zadnik here, Outreach Coordinator for the tip-a-day blog and sometimes Saturday poster.  As you may know from some of my previous posts, my primary job is not as an evaluator.  I like to consider myself an Evaluation Enthusiast – bringing my love of evaluation to others in the anti-sexual violence movement.   …

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Sheila B Robinson on Making the Most of Evaluation 2015, Even if You Cannot Attend

Happy Summer! I’m Sheila B. Robinson, aea365’s Lead Curator and sometimes Saturday contributor. Last year at this time, I contributed these ideas for enjoying AEA’s annual conference even for those not attending, and they’re well worth repeating this year. Hot Tip #1 – Leverage the all new beautiful Evaluation 2015 site to Build Your Professional Network: The Evaluation 2015 Online …

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PD Presenters Week: Meg Hargreaves and David Chavis on Advancing the Implementation Science of Community/Systems Change

Hi! We are Meg Hargreaves (principal associate) and David Chavis, (principal associate and CEO) at Community Science, an evaluation and consulting firm that works with governments, foundations, and non-profit organizations on solutions to social problems through community and other systems change. As part of our goal to strengthen the science and practice of building healthy, …

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PD Presenters Week: Barbara Howard, Katherine Tibbetts, Don Klinger, and Patricia McDivitt on Applying Standards to Enhance Evaluation

Who we are: Hello, my name is Barbara Howard, Chair of the Joint Committee on Standards for Educational Evaluation. My colleagues, Katherine Tibbetts, Don Klinger, and Patricia McDivitt, serve on the Joint Committee, which is a consortium of seventeen professional organizations, including AEA. Katherine Tibbetts is our AEA representative. We want to share our work …

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PD Presenters Week: Martha McGuire on Conducting evaluations that make a difference: Learning what works

Hi! I am Martha McGuire, a credentialed independent evaluator who has been working with a great group of people from around the world: Burt Perrin, Soma De Silva, Pablo Rodriquez-Bilella, Serge Eric Yakeu, Rochelle Zorzi, Ramon Crespo, Dayna Albert, Eric McGraw and Scott Bayley. We have been gathering stories about evaluations that make a difference. …

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PD Presenters Week: Monica Oliver and Krista Collins Creating an Index for Measuring Fidelity of Implementation

Hi! We are Monica Oliver and Krista Collins, evaluation practitioners in Atlanta, GA. Through our extensive work with the US Department of Education (e.g. Investing in Innovation (i3), Race to the Top-District), we have constructed implementation fidelity frameworks for several complex, multi-level education programs.   At the past two AEA annual conferences we, along with our …

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Karen Widmer on Evaluation in Program Design: A New TIG to Help

Hello! I am Karen Widmer, the Program Design TIG co-chair and a doctoral student at Claremont Graduate University. In 2014 the PD-TIG was officially approved for business and we have a full docket of presenters lined up for the 2015 AEA conference. We continue to be surprised at the many roles evaluators take at the …

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