Greetings aea365 readers! I’m Sheila B. Robinson, Lead Curator of my favorite evaluation blog, aea365. As I’ve written many times before, I’ve claimed the title of “aea365’s biggest fan.” Not only have I been an avid reader myself, but a frequent contributor as well. In fact, my first piece of published writing was indeed an aea365 …
Best of aea365: Sheila B. Robinson on Joining the aea365 Author Community Read More »
Hi! I’m Sheila B. Robinson, aea365’s Lead Curator and sometimes Saturday contributor. I’ve been a conference proposal reviewer for AEA’s annual conference for several years now, and always find it a wonderful learning experience and opportunity to get involved and contribute. As Susan Kistler, AEA’s Executive Director Emeritus, posted last year, “It is a bit like being …
Sheila B. Robinson on the Annual Call for Proposals – Evaluation 2014 Read More »
Hello, I’m Shirah Hecht, Ph.D, Program Evaluator with Academic Technology Services within the Harvard University Info Tech area. Here is a simple “trick” for beginning to develop a research design. I call this “system mapping.” You may connect it to stakeholder analysis or concept mapping, since it blends the two in a way – but …
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My name is Neha Karkara, and I’m an independent consultant working with UN agencies. I specialize in developing and implementing human-rights based advocacy, knowledge management and communications strategies. Recently I worked with EvalPartners to develop a resource that will help civil society organizations (CSOs), Voluntary Organizations for Professional Evaluation (VOPEs), governments and other development partners …
Neha Karkara on the Evaluation Advocacy Toolkit Read More »
I am Dawn Henderson, an Assistant Professor at Winston-Salem State University and former AEA GEDI (Graduate Education Diversity Initiative) intern. My experience as a GEDI afforded the opportunity to increase my knowledge in thinking about a program’s theory in evaluation. I used this in designing research and work with a school-based intervention. I want to …
Dawn Henderson on Developing a Program Theory to Guide your Evaluation Plan Read More »
Hello! We are Laura Beals (program evaluator) and Noah Schectman (database administrator) from Jewish Family and Children’s Service (JF&CS), located in Boston, MA. At JF&CS we use a cloud-based case management system to facilitate data collection about our clients and services. We are part of the internal evaluation department at JF&CS (i.e., he is not …
Laura Beals and Noah Schectman on Data Formatting for Performance Management Systems Read More »
You might not think so, but I think you’re a designer. My name is Cameron Norman and I work with health and human service clients doing evaluation and design for innovation. As the Principal of CENSE Research + Design I bring together concepts like developmental evaluation, complexity science and design together for clients to help …
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Hello, my name is Dan McDonnell and I am a Community Manager for the American Evaluation Association. As someone who uses Twitter extensively both in a personal and professional capacity, I have found that, while powerful, the basic client is occasionally lacking in functionality. In this post, I intend to provide a brief overview of a …
Dan McDonnell on 3 Tools to Make Reading and Sharing On Twitter Even Easier Read More »
My name is Dan McDonnell and I am a Community Manager at the American Evaluation Association (AEA). For today’s Saturday post, we’ll be covering a few advanced Twitter tips for evaluators: features that fly under the radar enough to be considered ‘secret!’ Rad Resource: Hidden Keyboard Shortcuts Find yourself without a computer mouse or working …
Dan McDonnell on Keyboard Shortcuts and Other Advanced Twitter Features Read More »
My name is Cameron Norman and I am the Principal of CENSE Research + Design. My work brings together complexity science and design together with developmental evaluation into something I refer to as developmental design, which is about making decisions in the face of changing conditions. Lesson Learned: At the heart of developmental evaluation is …
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