I am David J. Bernstein, a Senior Study Director with Westat, an employee-owned research and evaluation company. Val Caracelli and I are the Local Arrangements Working Group (LAWG) Co-Chairs for the 2013 AEA Conference in Washington, DC from October 14-19. The LAWG is mobilizing local expertise and resources to enhance the annual conference and facilitate …
Hello! I’m Sheila B. Robinson, aea365’s current Lead Volunteer Curator. Have you ever noticed that each aea365 post has a footer attached that invites you to comment on the post? Go ahead and look for it at the end of this post. I’ll give you a moment. Do you see it now? Hot Tip: Contribute …
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Hello! Our names are Joyce Miller and Tania Bogatova, from KeyStone Research Corporation (KSRC), a research and consulting organization in Erie, Pennsylvania. KSRC provides expertise to organizations, enabling them to link research, policy, and practice and to build their capacity for performance excellence. We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, …
We are Kaia Ambrose of CARE Canada and Simon Hearn of the Overseas Development Institute, UK and we’ll be facilitating a professional development workshop at this year’s AEA Conference to introduce Outcome Mapping (OM). We’d like to share with you our whistle-stop-tour of OM and how it can add value to your evaluations, drawing on …
I’m Apollo M Nkwake, a Research Associate Professor at Tulane University’s Disaster Resilience and Leadership Academy. I design monitoring and evaluation plans, conduct program evaluations and facilitate a graduate course in quantitative analysis of disaster resilience. Lessons learned: An elaborate design that explicates assumptions on which programs are premised, is essential for viable program evaluation. In …
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Hello, I am John Owen, Principal Fellow at the Centre for Program Evaluation in Melbourne Australia. For quite a while I have been interested in how evaluation can influence the quality of social policy and program delivery. The lesson I wish to convey is that, fundamentally, evaluation should be seen as a servant of good …
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I’m Jennifer Ann Morrow, a faculty member in Evaluation, Statistics, and Measurement at the University of Tennessee. I created a 12 Step process evaluators can follow to ensure their data is clean prior to conducting analyses. Hot Tip: Evaluators should follow these 12 steps prior to conducting analyses for evaluation reports: 1. Create a data …
Good day! I am Susan Kistler, the Evaluation 2013 conference program coordinator and American Evaluation Association Executive Director Emeritus. Today, I’m writing about 4 ways to make the most of the conference even if you cannot attend in person. (Share Clip) Hot Tip #1 – Leverage the Evaluation 2013 Online Conference Program to Build Your …
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Hi, I am Jim Van Haneghan, Professor of Professional Studies at the University of South Alabama. I am writing today about Nate Silver’s book The Signal and the Noise: Why Most Predictions Fail-But Some Don’t. It is an intriguing book about statistical prediction and “big data.” For those who have not read the book, it …
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My name is Dan McDonnell, and I am a Community Manager at the American Evaluation Association. For me, social media is life, both personally and professionally. I met my wife on Twitter and had a live tweet feed and hashtag at our wedding. But what I love most about social media is the data: I …
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