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Sheila B. Robinson on the Annual Call for Proposals – Evaluation 2014

Leave a Comment / Uncategorized / March 1, 2014

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 …

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Shirah Hecht on System Mapping for Research Design

Leave a Comment / Uncategorized / March 1, 2014

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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Neha Karkara on the Evaluation Advocacy Toolkit

Leave a Comment / Uncategorized / February 23, 2014

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 …

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Dawn Henderson on Developing a Program Theory to Guide your Evaluation Plan

3 Comments / Uncategorized / February 23, 2014

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 …

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Laura Beals and Noah Schectman on Data Formatting for Performance Management Systems

4 Comments / Uncategorized / February 23, 2014

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 …

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Cameron Norman on The Evaluator-as-Designer

2 Comments / Uncategorized / February 23, 2014

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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Dan McDonnell on 3 Tools to Make Reading and Sharing On Twitter Even Easier

Leave a Comment / Uncategorized / February 22, 2014

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 …

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Dan McDonnell on Keyboard Shortcuts and Other Advanced Twitter Features

Leave a Comment / Uncategorized / February 15, 2014

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 …

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Cameron Norman on Complexity Science for Evaluators

Leave a Comment / Uncategorized / January 26, 2014

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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Dan McDonnell on A Few Other Recent AEA365 Posts You May Have Missed (Part 2)

Leave a Comment / Uncategorized / January 25, 2014

Hello again evaluators, my name is Dan McDonnell and I am a Community Manager for the American Evaluation Association (AEA). In last Saturday’s evaluation blog post, we outlined a series of posts from early January that may not have made it to your inbox. Today we’re continuing along on that same note, and will be showcasing an additional …

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