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Sheila B Robinson on Rockin’ the AEA vote!

Hello AEA members! Sheila B. Robinson, aea365’s Lead Curator and sometimes Saturday contributor with an important message about the AEA elections. The 2016 ballot is now open for our 2016 President-elect and Board Members-at-Large. AEA member voting has been historically low. Let’s change that this year! Hot Tip: Get to know your candidates and cast your vote! …

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LAWG Week: Anthony Heard on growing as an evaluator with your local affiliate

My name is Anthony Heard I’m a clinical social worker at the UI Hospital and Health Sciences System here in Chicago, and Secretary of the AEA’s local affiliate: the Chicagoland Evaluation Association (CEA). Today, I hope to encourage you to check out both your local affiliate and ours. Though I co-chair a department QI Committee, …

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LAWG Week: Alicia Anderson on Bringing Out the Best in Others

Hello! My name is Alicia Anderson and I am a student at The Chicago School of Professional Psychology in the Masters of Science in Applied Behavior Analysis Program. I am also a Leader Fellow with Become, Inc – a nonprofit team dedicated to community engagement, community involvement, and social justice. In the short time that …

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LAWG Week: Matt Feldmann on Illinois as the “Local Area”

Hello, I am Matt Feldmann, the principal researcher and owner of Goshen Education Consulting, Inc. and a member of the Local Area Working Group. My company focuses on educational evaluation and data support for clients in Illinois, which also happens to include Chicago. J While I live about 4.5 hours south of Chicago, I am …

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LAWG Week: Scott Tharp on Increasing Cultural Competence in Assessment

Hello fellow culturally-responsive evaluation lovers! My name is Scott Tharp and I am the Associate Director for the Center for Intercultural Programs at DePaul University. It’s a simple fact that we live in a multicultural world where multiple values and experiences are present. While some might think evaluation is inherently “neutral”, it never is. Social …

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LAWG Week: Leah Neubauer, Dominica McBride, and Anthony Heard on Getting Chicago-ready for Evaluation 2015

We are Leah Neubauer, Dominica McBride and Anthony Heard of the Chicagoland Evaluation Association. Welcome to the Local Arrangements Working Group (LAWG) week. We look forward to Evaluation 2015 in the Windy City. In the Exemplary Evaluation conference year, our opening Chicago week offers issues relevant to our evaluation practice, environment, and policy. Today’s post …

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Sheila B Robinson on Thinking about the Unthinkable – Unanticipated Outcomes

I’m Sheila B. Robinson, aea365’s Lead Curator and sometimes Saturday contributor, and I’m thinking deeply this morning. Really deeply. About unanticipated outcomes. It’s fascinating when I think back on what seem like tiny, trivial moments in my life – a sentence spoken, a question asked, an action taken – that had profound impacts on my …

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Sara Vaca on My favorite quotes about creativity

Greetings! I’m Sara Vaca, independent consultant at EvalQuality.com and Creative Advisor of this blog. As mentioned before, I consider creativity a key competence in life, and in evaluation. How so? If there is anything clear regarding evaluation it is that there are no rules. No rules. It is a totally adaptive discipline that can be …

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Veronica Olazabal and Karim Harji on Market-Based Approaches to Poverty Alleviation: Ways to Engage as an Evaluator

Hi, Veronica Olazabal, senior associate director of evaluation at The Rockefeller Foundation here with Karim Harji, director at Purpose Capital. As many of you already know, market-based approaches to poverty alleviation are gaining traction across the social sector. A range of innovative strategies are being used to finance these initiatives, including impact investing—an approach to …

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