I am Kathy Bolland, charter member of the American Evaluation Association (AEA), and “owner” of EVALTALK. My primary professional identity is evaluator although now my primary responsibilities are in research, education, and administration. Rad Resource: EVALTALK. Evaltalk is an electronic discussion “list” sponsored by AEA. Subscribers need not be AEA members. In 1995, during the …
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Hi, we’re Eva Bazant, evaluation staff at Jhpiego, and Vandana Tripathi, consultant to global public health programs. Jhpiego is an affiliate of Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland, working to improve maternal, newborn and child health globally. In many sectors, such as education, observations are used for professional evaluation. We are sharing lessons learned from …
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Hello, my name is Fatima Frank. I am the Evaluation Specialist for evalû, a small consulting firm that focuses exclusively on rigorous evaluations of social and economic development initiatives. We champion impact evaluation that maintains academic rigor but is based entirely on our clients’ need to improve strategic and operational effectiveness and increase profitability. Rad …
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My name is Susan Kistler, the American Evaluation Association’s Executive Director, and I’m posting a bonus contribution this week. This is the perfect time to reflect and thank all of those who have made 2012 a banner year for aea365. Lesson Learned – Leadership Is Key: This year, June Gothberg served as the lead curator …
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My name is Susan Kistler. I am the American Evaluation Association’s Executive Director and aea365’s regular Saturday contributor. Back in May of 2011, Alex da Silva wrote a great aea365 post on Expanding Your Capacity With Microsoft Excel, suggesting resources for beginner, intermediate, and advanced Excel users. Today, I have something new to add to …
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We are Jan Losby (a CDC employee) and Anne Wetmore (a former ORISE Fellow at CDC), members of the Evaluation and Program Effectiveness Team in the Division for Heart Disease and Stroke Prevention at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). Inevitably when you start creating a survey and you are using a Likert …
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Hello aea365! My name is Susan Kistler, I am the American Evaluation Association’s Executive Director, and aea365’s regular Saturday contributor. Today, I’m going to write briefly about ways to get a bit more involved with aea365. Hot Tip – Share Your Favorite aea365 Posts: We regularly receive questions about whether the content on aea365 may …
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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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