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Caryn Mohr on Connecting Primary Research to Community Indicators

Hello! I am Caryn Mohr, a Research Scientist at Wilder Research in St. Paul. I’m one of more than 40 researchers in the office who conduct primary research. My own work focuses on education programs addressing opportunity and achievement gaps. Our office also manages Minnesota Compass, a nationally recognized community indicators project. Opportunities to collaborate …

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Kerry Bruce on Getting Started with Mobile Phones

Hi, I am Kerry Bruce, Director of Results and Measurement at Pact. I am part of Pact’s central technical team that provides monitoring and evaluation support to more than 20 country offices and more than 70 projects around the world. In 2012 we started to roll out the use of mobile technology in our programs. …

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STEM Week: Veronica Smith on Evaluating Student Learning in STEM Subjects

Leave a Comment / Prek-12 Educational Evaluation, STEM Education and Training, Uncategorized / March 11, 2013 March 16, 2013

I am Veronica Smith, principal of data2insight, an evaluation and research firm specializing in STEM program evaluation. We love working with organizations to design, develop and improve curricula for STEM teaching and learning. Examples of curricula we have evaluated include the NWABR Science and Ethics of Humans in Research, TechStart, and BioQuest Global Health Curriculum. …

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Susan Kistler on Remembering the Ides of March and Thinking About Your Message

4 Comments / Uncategorized / March 9, 2013 March 9, 2013

I am Susan Kistler, the American Evaluation Association’s Executive Director and aea365’s regular Saturday contributor. We have a busy week coming up with all conference proposals due next Friday. Hot Tip – Beware the Ides of March (for it is the AEA conference proposal submission deadline): Famously known as the date of Caesar’s assassination at …

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LAWG Week: David J. Bernstein on Submitting Proposals and Presenting at DC-Based AEA Conferences

Leave a Comment / Uncategorized / February 24, 2013 February 24, 2013

I am David J. Bernstein, a Senior Study Director with Westat, an employee-owned research and evaluation company. I am a Past Chair of the Government Evaluation Topical Interest Group (TIG), and have been an evaluator in the DC area for over 30 years. Val Caracelli and I are the Local Arrangements Working Group (LAWG) Co-Chairs …

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Bloggers Series: Kevin Flora on the EdMatics Blog

Leave a Comment / Uncategorized / February 15, 2013 February 15, 2013

Hey ya’ll (I’m from Kentucky), I’m Kevin Flora, the owner of EdMatics. I am a doctoral student at the University of Kentucky in the Interdisciplinary program of Educational Studies. Essentially, I am less than two years away from being out of school and permanently in a career. Rad Resource – EdMatics: The EdMatics blog is …

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Bloggers Series: Kim Firth Leonard on Actionable Data

1 Comment / Data Visualization and Reporting, Uncategorized / February 12, 2013 February 12, 2013

Hello all, I’m Kim Firth Leonard, American Evaluation Association (AEA) member since 2008, and President of local affiliate OPEN, the Oregon Program Evaluators Network. I currently work at Marylhurst University in Portland, Oregon, primarily on assessment of student learning and academic programs, though I also dabble in institutional research. I also do contract work in …

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Susan Kistler on the Top 10 aea365 Articles of 2012

Leave a Comment / Uncategorized / February 2, 2013 February 2, 2013

I’m Susan Kistler, the American Evaluation Association’s Executive Director and regular aea365 Saturday contributor. Last year, about this time we looked back on the top aea365 posts of 2011, a year where the most read list reflected a number of tech tools. I ended the list with “I can’t wait to see what 2012 brings!” …

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Ann Emery, James Coyle, and Kylie Hutchinson, on Top Things You DID Learn in School

Leave a Comment / Uncategorized / February 1, 2013 February 11, 2013

Greetings! We’re Ann Emery, James Coyle, and Kylie Hutchinson. Every few weeks, James and Kylie chat about topics, trends, and tips in the field of program evaluation through the Adventures in Evaluation podcast series. James and Kylie recently invited Ann to join their discussion. We talked about Ann’s aea365 post on 10 Things You Didn’t …

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Linda Scheu and Angela Baldasare on Using Good Presentation Principles to Increase Potential Impact

3 Comments / Uncategorized / January 31, 2013 January 31, 2013

Good Day! We are Linda Scheu and Angela Baldasare, evaluation and assessment professionals working in higher education, at the University of Arizona. One of the things we have learned in our combined 20 years of experience in evaluation/assessment work is in the evaluation process planning, collecting, and analyzing the data are almost equally paramount. However, …

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