My name is Kim Firth Leonard, and I have the honor of authoring the first post on the aea365 blog for Oregon Program Evaluators Network (OPEN) week. I have been an AEA member since 2008, and am currently President of OPEN, a local affiliate of AEA founded in 1997. I work as Assessment Research Coordinator …
OPEN Week: Kim Firth Leonard on Local Affiliates as Learning Communities Read More »
I’m Clara Hagens. I work for Catholic Relief Services (CRS) as the Regional Technical Advisor for Monitoring, Evaluation, Accountability and Learning in Asia. I’d like to share with you a guidance document we have developed to support project teams to operationalize monitoring and evaluation (M&E) plans, big and small, in various contexts. Rad Resource: CRS’ …
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Changes are afoot! My name is Susan Kistler and I am just about to become the American Evaluation Association’s Executive Director emeritus. I’ve written before about my stepping down and my last official day in this position is this coming Monday, May 20. I’ll continue to write for aea365, and will be working on the …
Susan Kistler on Changes Afoot at the American Evaluation Association Read More »
I’m Corrie Whitmore, president of the Alaska Evaluation Network (AKEN) and an internal evaluator working for Southcentral Foundation (SCF). SCF is an Alaska Native owned and operated health care organization serving approximately 60,000 Alaska Native and American Indian people living in Anchorage, the Matanuska-Susitna Valley, and 60 rural villages in the Anchorage Service Unit. SCF …
AKEN Week: Corrie Whitmore Introducing the Alaska Evaluation Network Read More »
Hello! Sheila B. Robinson here, guest posting for Susan Kistler, our regular Saturday contributor. I work in PK12 education at Greece Central School District, and in higher education at the University of Rochester’s Warner School of Education. As aea365’s current Lead Volunteer Curator, I’ve had the pleasure of working with a number of groups – …
Sheila B. Robinson on Being an AEA365 Sponsored Weeks Archaeologist! Read More »
My name is Susan Kistler and for a few more weeks, I am honored to serve as the American Evaluation Association’s Executive Director. This week’s post is a little different, and a little shorter, than my usual Saturday contribution. National Volunteer Appreciation week ends today. We’ve been giving shout outs to just a few of …
Susan Kistler on Thanking AEA’s Volunteers Read More »
I am Susan Kistler, the American Evaluation Association’s Executive Director and aea365’s regular Saturday contributor. We’re talking eCommunications and eCommunities this week. Get Involved – Work on eTIG Planning: I am considering starting an AEA TIG on Evaluation of eCommunications and eCommunities (the name may need a bit of tweaking). We’d focus on issues involved …
Susan Kistler on an eCommunications and eCommunities TIG and Resources Read More »
Hello, we are Sheila Matano and Dani O’Neill from Carson Research Consulting (CRC). We at CRC are currently in the process of conducting a survey on relocation and housing stability. Although surveys are an incredibly useful method for gathering quantitative information from large populations, response rates vary widely. In order to promote our project, interact …
Hello! We’re Michelle Landry and Judy Savageau from the University of Massachusetts Medical School’s Center for Health Policy and Research. As Sean Allen Levin suggested in a recent aea365 post, organizing an evaluation project or multiple projects can be daunting. The details of timelines, responsibilities, and deliverables can easily be lost if they are only …
Hi! I’m Sheila B. Robinson, AEA365’s Lead Curator. I’m also an educator with Greece Central School District, and the University of Rochester’s Warner School of Education. Today, I’ll share lessons learned about evaluation planning and a fabulous way to get ready for summer (learning about evaluation, of course!). Rudyard Kipling wrote, I keep six honest …
Sheila B. Robinson on Evaluation Planning and Getting in (Evaluation) Shape for Summer Read More »
