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Susan Kistler on Getting Engaged in Environmental Evaluation

Leave a Comment / Uncategorized / July 28, 2012 July 29, 2012

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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Susan Kistler on Evaluation 2012 Coming Up in Minneapolis

Leave a Comment / Uncategorized / July 14, 2012 May 17, 2013

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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Susan Kistler on Resources for Evaluating Communications

2 Comments / Uncategorized / July 7, 2012 July 7, 2012

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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AZENet Week: Cassandra O’Neill and Amy Ashley on Local Collaboration for Big Impact

Leave a Comment / Uncategorized / June 10, 2012 May 25, 2012

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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Susan Kistler on a Must-have Free Tool for the Evaluation Detective

Leave a Comment / Uncategorized / May 26, 2012 May 26, 2012

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 …

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Tom Archibald and Jane Buckley on Evaluative Thinking: The ‘Je Ne Sais Quoi’ of Evaluation Capacity Building and Evaluation Practice

8 Comments / Organizational Learning and Evaluation Capacity Building, Uncategorized / April 29, 2012 March 24, 2012

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 …

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Bloggers Series: John Gargani on EvalBlog

1 Comment / Uncategorized / April 23, 2012 January 15, 2012

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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Susan Kistler on AEA Setting Environmental Issues as a Priority and the Environmental Evaluators Network Forum Unconference

Leave a Comment / Uncategorized / April 14, 2012 April 17, 2012

I am Susan Kistler, the American Evaluation Association’s Executive Director and aea365 regular Saturday contributor. Did you know that April 22 is Earth Day and that all this week we’ll be celebrating Earth Week on aea365 with our colleagues in the Environmental Program Evaluation Topical Interest Group? What is particular exciting is that this year …

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Susan Kistler on Tools to Help in Your Evaluation Job Search

1 Comment / Uncategorized / April 7, 2012 April 7, 2012

I’m Susan Kistler and I am the American Evaluation Association’s Executive Director and aea365’s regular Saturday contributor. Spring has finally sprung in North American – I’m once again awakened by the birds in the morning and shuttling around between crew, track, and softball – the spring sports for my small family. For many, spring will …

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Regan Grandy on Newly Amended FERPA Regulation Helps Educational Evaluation

4 Comments / Government Evaluation, Prek-12 Educational Evaluation, Research on Evaluation, Uncategorized, Youth Focused Evaluation / March 26, 2012 March 2, 2012

I’m Regan Grandy, and I’ve worked as an evaluator for Spectrum Research Evaluation and Development for six years. My work is primarily evaluating U.S. Department of Education-funded grant projects with school districts across the nation. Lessons Learned – Like some of you, I’ve found it difficult, at times, gaining access to extant data from school …

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