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Katherine Haugh on Strategies for Visual Note Taking (Write this Down)

2 Comments / Uncategorized / December 23, 2014

Hello, I’m Katherine Haugh, an evaluator at Innovation Network—a nonprofit consulting firm based in Washington DC. What is the best way that you retain and recall information? Do text-heavy reports speak to you? Or do you prefer images, infographics and colorful fonts? I recently attended AEA’s 2014 conference in Denver, Colorado. While I was there, …

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Kylie Hutchinson on “O Collective Impact,” an Evaluator’s Carol

1 Comment / Uncategorized / December 16, 2014

My name is Kylie Hutchinson and I’m an independent evaluator and owner of Community Solutions Planning & Evaluation. Each year, I adapt a Christmas carol to share with my evaluation colleagues and not-for-profit clients. Enjoy! Hot Tip: Poems and songs are one way of communicating evaluation concepts in a fun and memorable way. Rad Resource: …

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Josh Twomey on Simple and Effective: Using Boxplots to Display Individualized Results

3 Comments / Uncategorized / December 23, 2014

Hi! I’m Josh Twomey, evaluation specialist at UMass Medical School’s Center for Health Policy and Research (in the Office of Clinical Affairs). As evaluators, we are often tasked with providing participants in our evaluations with individualized results. This can be challenging as results must be easy to interpret, display individual results in the context of …

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Ann Martin on Handy New Survey Features in Google Forms

2 Comments / Uncategorized / December 22, 2014

I’m Ann Martin, an evaluator working with a team of science educators and outreach professionals in Hampton, VA. I frequently employ Google Formsfor evaluation and even other projects. Forms are free, simple, intuitive for users, and get the job done. In the past, though, Google Forms had several notable limitations. If you found that Forms …

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Sheila B Robinson on the Importance of Saying Thank You

1 Comment / Uncategorized / December 13, 2014

Hello loyal aea365 readers! I’m Sheila B Robinson, aea365’s Lead Curator and sometimes Saturday contributor. Thank you for being “here” today and reading this post! As I was searching for inspiration for this Saturday’s post, I turned to our aea365 archives and found a post from fall 2010 by Susan Kistler (thank you Susan!) that really …

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MSI Fellowship Week: Andrea Guajardo on the Minority Serving Institution (MSI) Faculty Fellowship Program Experience as a Non-Faculty Participant

Leave a Comment / Uncategorized / December 11, 2014

I am Andrea Guajardo, MPH and I am the Director of Community Health at CHRISTUS Santa Rosa Health System in San Antonio, Texas. I am also a doctoral student seeking the PhD in Education at the University of the Incarnate Word, and I enjoyed the distinct honor of being selected to participate in the Minority …

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MSI Fellowship Week: Edilberto A. Raynes on becoming a Minority Serving Institution (MSI) Fellow: Lesson learned

Leave a Comment / Uncategorized / December 6, 2014

My name is Edilberto A. Raynes. I am an Associate Professor from the Tennessee State University. I am one of the five MSI Fellows from 2013-2014. I am coming in to the fellowship program with minimal background in evaluation. However, I have broad experiences in conducting social research in an academic institution. I have noticed …

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MSI Fellowship Week: Denise Gaither-Hardy on Experiencing a Year as a Minority Serving Institution Initiative (MSI) Fellow

Leave a Comment / Uncategorized / December 6, 2014

My name is Denise Gaither-Hardy. I am an Assistant Professor at The Lincoln University in Pennsylvania. I want to share a few thoughts about my experience as a member of American Evaluation Association (AEA) and Minority Serving Institution Fellow (MSI) during the past year. My five member cohort was led by Art Hernandez, Professor and …

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MSI Fellowship Week: Tamara Bertrand Jones on Experiencing a Year as a Minority Serving Institution Initiative (MSI) Fellow

1 Comment / Uncategorized / December 6, 2014

My name is Tamara Bertrand Jones and I am an Assistant Professor at Florida State University. During the MSI Fellows program I evaluated an international professional development program for faculty and K-12 teachers. The program developers had designed the evaluation component and it was subsequently approved with the rest of the proposal by the funding …

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MSI Fellowship Week: Ana R. Pinilla on The importance of in class practice and course content modification when teaching evaluation

Leave a Comment / Uncategorized / December 6, 2014

My name is Ana R. Pinilla. I am a clinical psychologist and Associate Professor of Graduate Clinical Psychology at The Pontifical Catholic University of Puerto Rico. After finishing a year at the AEA Minority Serving Institute (MSI) Fellowship in October 2014, I am happy to share the lessons learned in teaching evaluation, through my experience …

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