I am Susan Kistler, the American Evaluation Association’s Executive Director and aea365’s Saturday contributor. Although it cleared 80 degrees today, Labor Day is nearly upon us and with it the return to school. This means the return of 30 teenage boys to the dorm in which we have lived for the past 10 years, high …
Susan Kistler on an Amazing, Free, Lifelong Learning Opportunity Read More »
I am Susan Kistler, The American Evaluation Association’s Executive Director, and aea365’s ongoing Saturday contributor. Get Involved: Once again, we’re looking for an aea365 intern (with special thanks to June Gothberg who has served as the lead curator since March). The aea365 intern is responsible for: Recruiting contributors – send invitations, work with leaders of …
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My name is Stephanie Evergreen and I am AEA’s eLearning Initiative Director and lead of the Potent Presentations Initiative. I’m sitting in for Susan Kistler this Saturday and boy do I have something awesome to share with you. As part of the Potent Presentations Initiative, we identified the top dozen AEA presenters (that is, based …
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Happy Saturday! My name is Susan Kistler and I am the American Evaluation Association’s Executive Director and regular Saturday aea365 contributor. I returned earlier this month from the Environmental Evaluators Network (EEN) Unconference in Washington which brought together approximately 200 colleagues with an interest and investment in Environmental Evaluation. The event ended with establishing multiple …
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My name is Susan Kistler, the American Evaluation Association’s Executive Director and aea365 Saturday contributor. I went to graduate school at the University of Minnesota and thus am especially pleased to be able to share with you information about this year’s AEA annual conference in Minneapolis. Hot Tip – Evaluation 2012: Registration is now open …
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My name is Susan Kistler, the American Evaluation Association’s Executive Director and aea365 Saturday contributor. This week, a colleague asked about resources for evaluation of communications. Rad Resource – Making Health Communications Work: On AEA’s listserv, EVALTALK, Pam Kelley recommended this free guide (more of a book, it is over 250 pages of assistance and …
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Hi, we’re Cassandra O’Neill, Senior Partner, Wholonomy Consulting, in Tucson AZ, and Amy Ashley, Policy and Research Technical Writer at the Center for Applied Behavioral Health Policy, Arizona State University. Together, we make up the co-president elect position of the Arizona Evaluation Network (AZENet). Welcome to Arizona evaluation week, where we highlight local collaboration for …
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I’m Susan Kistler, the American Evaluation Association’s Executive Director, and ongoing aea365 Saturday Contributor. Sometimes, you use a tool so much, you forget it’s there. Hence, my poor explanation for why I have not yet written about the tool I am sharing with you today. Rad Resource – OutWit Docs: OutWit Docs describes itself as …
Susan Kistler on a Must-have Free Tool for the Evaluation Detective Read More »
Hi, we are Tom Archibald and Jane Buckley with the Cornell Office for Research on Evaluation. Among other initiatives, we work in partnership with non-formal educators to build evaluation capacity. We have been exploring the idea of evaluative thinking, which we believe is an essential, yet elusive, ingredient in evaluation capacity building (ECB). Below, we …
My name is John Gargani. I direct a program design and evaluation firm called Gargani + Company. I’m based in Berkeley, travel on planes a lot, and am a recidivist blogger. Rad Resource – EvalBlog.com: EvalBlog was started to promote a simple idea—evaluation has the power to change the world. It is written by me …
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