My name is Art Hernandez and I am a Professor and Dean at Texas A&M University Corpus Christi. I participated in one of the very early yearlong experiences as a Fellow and have served as the Director for several cohorts. I have served as evaluator and teacher or evaluation and am very interested in the …
Hello, my name is Jayne Corso and I am the Community Manager for the American Evaluation Association (AEA). Today, I will discuss the benefits of using Canva, a free online tool that allows you to create images and graphics. I mostly use Canva to create images for social media, but this tool is not limited …
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Hello, my name is Dan McDonnell and I am a Community Manager for the American Evaluation Association (AEA). Hashtags are an integral part of the Twitter experience. Whether you follow popular hashtags like #eval to keep up on the latest news in evaluation, or you include them in your own Tweets to join larger conversations …
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Hello fellow evaluators! I’m Sheila B Robinson, aea365’s Lead Curator and sometimes Saturday contributor, and I have to admit, I get lonely sometimes. After all, I’m the only program evaluator in my organization. Sure, there are other people who collect and analyze data, but no one who can sit down with me over lunch and …
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Kirk Knestis, CEO of Hezel Associates, back again, following up on a previous post about how evaluators’ work in STEM education settings is being influenced by the Common Guidelines for Education Research and Development introduced by the National Science Foundation (NSF) and U.S. Department of Education. Hezel Associates studies education innovations so regularly supports organizations …
Hello everyone, I’m Brad Rose of Brad Rose Consulting, Inc. a Massachusetts-based consulting firm that provides program evaluation, applied social research, and organization development consulting services to national and local non-profits, community-based organizations, educational institutions, philanthropies, corporations, and state and federal agencies. I’d like to share my views about the importance of interpersonal skills to successful …
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I am Vardhani Ratnala, a monitoring and evaluation professional. In this post, I would like to share my views on the importance of CONTEXT in evaluations. Recently, at a high tea event, a friend pointed to a dress made from an Indian sari worn by an expat and suggested that we should get similar dresses …
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We are Leah Christina Neubauer and Annelise Noelle Smith. Neubauer is based in DePaul’s MPH Program and is President of the Chicagoland Evaluation Association (CEA). Smith works for the Washington State Department of Social and Health Services. We are both interested in Critical Race Theory (CRT) as a theoretical and methodological orientation to promote racial, …
Hello! I’m Lisa Aponte-Soto, a member of the AEA Public Statement on Cultural Competence in Evaluation Dissemination Working Group, the AEA Graduate Diversity Internship Program (GEDI) 2009-2010 cohort, and the National Program Deputy Director of the RWJF New Connections at the OMG Center for Collaborative Learning. Latinas/os comprise the fastest growing U.S. population, but represent …
Hi everyone! We are three evaluators committed to cultural competence in evaluation, particularly in international contexts. Hanife Cakici is a postdoctoral fellow and independent research consultant whose dissertation work focuses on perceptions of evaluation in Turkey. Lucy El-Sherif is a doctoral student at OISE, University of Toronto, and recently completed an evaluation of community schools …
