We are David J. Bernstein, Senior Study Director with Westat, an employee-owned research and evaluation company and Valerie Caracelli, Senior Social Science Analyst at the U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO). We are honored to be the Local Arrangements Working Group (LAWG) Co-Chairs for the upcoming 2013 AEA Conference. The LAWG is a group of 74 …
I am Herb Baum, Senior Director of Program Evaluation at the Data Recognition Corporation in the Washington DC office and looking forward to welcoming you here in October. For the past decade I have attended the AEA conference, attended some of the workshops and presented at many of them. Here is my advice to both …
LAWG Week: Herb Baum on the Upcoming AEA Meeting Read More »
Happy Saturday aea365 readers! My name is Susan Kistler and I am the Executive Director Emeritus at the American Evaluation Association (AEA) and a regular contributor to aea365. We try not to write very often about programs that are for AEA members-only but today I hoped to tell you about one that might entice some …
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I am Vardhani Ratnala and work as a freelance consultant in Monitoring and Evaluation. In this post, I would like share my experience of presenting evaluation findings. Following an evaluation field visit, the findings are shared with the project management/implementing team. Quite often, when the findings are negative, it ruffles egos and leads to a …
Vardhani Ratnala on Managing Conflict Following Negative Evaluation Findings Read More »
Hello, fellow aea365ers! My name is Carla Hillerns and I manage research projects in the Center for Health Policy & Research’s Office of Survey Research at the University of Massachusetts Medical School. Evaluation pumps me up because it offers the opportunity to discover ways to improve processes and results. To get there, my work relies …
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My name is Kylie Hutchinson. I am an independent evaluation consultant and trainer with Community Solutions Planning & Evaluation (www.communitysolutions.ca). I give regular webinars and workshops on evaluation topics for both the AEA and CES and Twitter weekly at @EvaluationMaven. The field of evaluation is rife with inconsistent yet overlapping terminology that stems from different …
Kylie Hutchinson on Befuddled by Evaluation Terminology? Read More »
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 …
Sheila B. Robinson on Getting Involved by Commenting on aea365 Read More »
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 …
