Hello! I am Michelle Kosmicki, Research Manager for NET Nebraska. I engage in many different types of media research, including broadcast media, digital media, social media, and web analytics. While most of the data I curate and analyze is used for monitoring performance and planning, nearly all of my grant funded reporting requires some form …
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My name is Awab and I am working as Monitoring & Evaluation Specialist with the Higher Education Commission (HEC), Islamabad. To gauge the learning of a training is always a challenge. Recently, we faced this challenge when the HEC conducted the training of about 1600 top managers of Pakistani universities. The trainings were conducted through …
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Hello, Talbot Bielefeldt here! I’m with Clearwater Program Evaluation, based in Eugene, Oregon. I have been doing educational program evaluation since 1995. My clients include all levels of education, from Kindergarten to graduate school, with an emphasis on STEM content and educational technology. When I started out as an evaluator, I knew I was never going to do …
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Hello evaluators! I’m Sheila B Robinson, aea365’s Lead Curator and sometimes Saturday contributor. In 2010, I traveled to San Antonio, TX to attend Evaluation 2010. I was on my own, and knew no one else attending the conference. I made my first friend there by recognizing the name tag of the author of an early …
Happy Saturday everyone! Liz Zadnik here to start the weekend off with a recent struggle of mine as a practitioner and evaluation enthusiast. For a few years now I have been honored to be conferred with and asked to speak on evaluation within the anti-sexual violence movement. I also have had the chance to help …
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What do one doctor, three nurses and an MBA have in common? More than you might think . . . We’re Pam Senesac, Anita Morris, Sai Cherala, Joan Johnston, and Ruth Aboagye, members of the Healthcare Innovation & Quality unit at UMass Medical School’s Center for Health Policy and Research, dedicated to individual and organizational …
My name is Lisa R. Holliday, and I am a Data Architect with The Evaluation Group. One aspect of my job is to work with evaluation teams to create data collection tools and assess the quality of data received. I use data dictionaries as a way to establish quality expectations. Hot Tip 1: Create Data …
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Greetings! We are Rakesh Mohan, Director, and Lance McCleve, Principal Evaluator, of the Idaho legislature’s Office of Performance Evaluations. Recognizing the ongoing debate about evaluator credentialing/certification, here we discuss a study that demonstrates the value of credentials in evaluations but not necessarily credentialed evaluators. As the director, I manage high stakes evaluations. A poorly conducted …
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Hello! I’m Matthew Von Hendy, owner of Green Heron Information Services, which provides research and information services to evaluation professionals. I love helping connect people with information they need to solve problems or make decisions. A lot of time and effort goes into responding to Requests for Proposals (RFPs) so ideally you shouldn’t be spending …
My name is Girija Kaimal and I am an Assistant Professor in the Department for Creative Arts Therapies at Drexel University. As an educator, evaluator, blogger and, artist, I’d like to share how my evaluation practice is informed by my artistic practice. The fields might seem unrelated but I think of art as metaphor. My …
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