Right now many of us are making our list and checking it twice. Much advice exists for what to buy teachers, mothers, or your favorite engineer, but I couldn’t find any suggestions on what to buy an evaluator. I’ve compiled some interesting ideas you may want to consider for that amazing evaluator in your life. …
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My name is Susan Kistler, I am the American Evaluation Association’s Executive Director, and aea365’s regular Saturday contributor. Evaluation provides the information needed to help decision-makers make the world a better place. AEA supports evaluators, students of evaluation, and those who work with evaluators, as they undertake this important work. Hot Tip – Join AEA, …
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Hello, my name is Karen Anderson and I’m AEA’s Diversity Coordinator Intern. I’m sure you’ve noticed from previous posts during the Cultural Competence Statement week that the AEA Public Statement on Cultural Competence in Evaluation Dissemination Working Group was pretty busy during the 2012 Annual Conference this year in Minneapolis. Not only was the Working …
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Hi, I’m Dominica McBride, President of The HELP Institute, and member of the AEA Public Statement on Cultural Competence Dissemination Working Group. The Working Group has been hard at work spreading the word about the Statement and its contents. One of the ways we did this was through conference presentations on various areas that the …
My name is Susan Kistler, the American Evaluation Association’s Executive Director and perpetual aea365 Saturday contributor Lessons Learned: Two pieces of background information will help you wade your way through the following post if you aren’t familiar with the topic. Twitter: You’ve likely heard of Twitter – the microblogging platform on which users share conversation …
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My name is Susan Kistler. I am the American Evaluation Association’s Executive Director and aea365’s regular Saturday contributor. Rad Resource – The aea365 Evaluation Bloggers Series: Beginning December of last year, for one week each month through April, we highlighted evaluation blogs in our Bloggers Series. Altogether, over 25 bloggers shared information about their blogs, …
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I’m Jeff Sheldon from Claremont Graduate University and today I’m sharing the Readiness for Organizational Learning and Evaluation (ROLE) instrument because I think it’s a vastly under-utilized resource that evaluation practitioners should consider when they want to find out whether an organization is a learning organization or ready for an evaluation. In my own research …
My name is Stella SiWan Zimmerman and I am the President of ACET Inc., an evaluation firm located in Minneapolis, Minnesota. I’ve been asked to contribute to a blog on Halloween. What a great opportunity to focus on techniques evaluators can use to take the fear out of the evaluation process. The following tips can …
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I am Susan Kistler, the American Evaluation Association’s Executive Director, and I am writing today as we wind down Evaluation 2012. Today, I wanted to let the attendees speak a bit for themselves, sharing via Twitter a bit of the buzz around the conference. Hot Tip: Storify is a free tool that allows you to …
Susan Kistler on Storify and Words of Wisdom From Evaluation 2012 Attendees Read More »
My name is Susan Kistler. I am the American Evaluation Association’s Executive Director, and today I am writing from the AEA annual conference in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Get Involved: The Presidential Strand kicked off with a great panel on the future of evaluation. You can get involved by posting your own prediction for evaluation’s future on …
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