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Kylie Hutchinson on Are Logic Models Passé?

5 Comments / Uncategorized / January 12, 2014 January 11, 2014

My name is Kylie Hutchinson. I am an independent evaluation consultant and trainer with Community Solutions Planning & Evaluation. In addition to my usual evaluation contracts, I deliver regular webinars on evaluation topics, Twitter weekly at @EvaluationMaven, and co-host the monthly evaluation podcast, Adventures in Evaluation along with my colleague @JamesWCoyle. Logic models (logical frameworks, …

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Sheila B Robinson on Fulfilling Your New Year’s Resolution (if it’s upping your evaluation game, that is!)

Leave a Comment / Uncategorized / January 11, 2014 January 11, 2014

Greetings! I’m Sheila B Robinson, aea365’s Lead Curator and sometimes Saturday contributor. If you’re a confessed evaluation nerd, perhaps one of your resolutions this year was to devote yourself to learning even more about our field. What better way to do that than to begin your quest by exploring the nooks and crannies of our …

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CEA Affiliate Week: Chelsey Leruth on Nuts and Bolts of Telephone Survey Administration

Leave a Comment / Uncategorized / January 7, 2014 January 6, 2014

Hello everyone! This is Chelsey Leruth, an internal evaluator at Access Community Health Network in Chicago. I am currently wrapping up the analysis for a phone survey of participants in one of our maternal and child health programs, Westside Healthy Start. Today, I would like to share some tips and lessons learned during the survey …

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CEA Affiliate Week: Sarah Rand, Amy Cassata, Maurice Samuels and Sandra Holt on iPad Survey Development for Young Learners

1 Comment / Integrating Technology into Evaluation, Prek-12 Educational Evaluation, Uncategorized, Youth Focused Evaluation / January 6, 2014 February 3, 2014

Greetings from the University of Chicago! We are Sarah Rand, Amy Cassata, Maurice Samuels and Sandra Holt from Outlier Research and Evaluation at the Center for Elementary Mathematics and Science Education. Our group recently evaluated two Chicago-based elementary education programs: Purple Asparagus, a nutrition education program and Science, Engineering, and Technology for Students, Educators, and Parents (SETSEP), a science …

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CEA Affiliate Week: Leah Christina Neubauer on Chicago-Based Evaluators and Including AEA Local Affiliates in Your 2014 Evaluator Learning Resolution Plans

Leave a Comment / Uncategorized / January 5, 2014 January 4, 2014

Welcome to the Chicagoland Evaluation Association’s (CEA) week of AEA365. My name is Leah Christina Neubauer and I am CEA President. CEA is back for its second featured week of AEA 365. **Our first week was in November of 2013. I hope that this early January CEA week serves to increase your knowledge of CEA …

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Dan McDonnell on Improving Your Google + Authorship Efforts

1 Comment / Uncategorized / January 4, 2014 January 4, 2014

In my last post, we touched on how evaluators can use Google + Authorship to add photos to their blog posts that will appear in Google search results. Besides making search results a bit more pretty, these photos can help you with grow your personal brand, as well as increase the likelihood that someone clicks through to read your post from Google. In this post, I will outline a few more tips and tricks for making Authorship work for you.

Bloggers Week: Molly Hamm on Learning Culture

Leave a Comment / Uncategorized / January 3, 2014 December 29, 2013

Saludos from the Dominican Republic! My name is Molly Hamm, and I’m the Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning Coordinator for the educational non-profit organization The DREAM Project as well as the author of the evaluation blog Learning Culture. Rad Resource – Learning Culture: My blog—still shy of its one-year anniversary—is all about asking and answering interesting …

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Bloggers Week: Karen Anderson on On Top Of the Box Evaluation

1 Comment / Uncategorized / January 2, 2014 December 29, 2013

Hi there! I’m Karen Anderson and my blog On Top Of the Box Evaluation is almost 2 ½ years old. I’ve published 65 posts over that time span with a range of topic areas. That may seem like a lot of posts and a long time, but that’s not the case in “blog years.” Most …

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Bloggers Week: Cameron Norman on Censemaking

Leave a Comment / Uncategorized / January 1, 2014 December 29, 2013

I’m Cameron Norman and I am the Principal at CENSE Research + Design where I bring together systems thinking and design with evaluation to help organizations adapt and evolve in complex systems. I use my blog as a way to explore ideas and educate my students, colleagues and clients (present and future) about many of …

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Bloggers Week: Trina Willard on For Good Measure

Leave a Comment / Uncategorized / December 31, 2013 December 29, 2013

Greetings! My name is Trina Willard and I am the Principal of Knowledge Advisory Group, a small consulting firm in Central Virginia that provides research and evaluation services to nonprofits, government agencies and small businesses. In addition to client work, I teach evaluation to nonprofit professionals and blog whenever I can. Rad Resource – For …

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