My name is Karen Shepherd and I have had a wonderful summer. I went to Europe, visited with friends, read a trashy novel, and learned to make gazpacho. But September is coming and I need to recommit and refocus. I know that lots of people make New Year’s resolutions; but for me, the timing is …
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I am Susan Kistler, AEA’s Executive Director, and the aea365 contributor for each Saturday. Today, I want to share with you items in the AEA Public eLibrary from a selection of sessions at the 2011 AEA/CDC Summer Evaluation Institute. These are handouts and slides from the 40+ workshops, pre-Institute day-long trainings, and keynotes offered this …
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Hello, my name is Pedro Mateu and I am a second year student in the Interdisciplinary Ph.D. in Evaluation program at Western Michigan University. During last spring I learnt how to do meta-analyses as a part of the program’s core courses. Therefore I would like to share with you some lessons learned. Hot Tip: First …
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Welcome fellow researchers! My name is Irene Marconi and I recently began using Twitter as part of my own professional learning to create a specialized listing for myself consisting of just people who tend to share items that I want to learn more about. I am sharing below my list of those that are related …
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I am Susan Kistler, AEA’s Executive Director, and this week I’m posting about two completely separate things: On the one hand, I want to tell you about the AEA conference program and on the other hand, I’m trying out curate.us. Rad Resource – Evaluation 2011 Searchable Conference Program: This highly searchable online program is a …
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Cheers! I am Sona Madison, a research methods student and amateur photographer. One of my pastimes is combining my academic work with my photography passion by using my own and others best photos as part of reports. Back in May of 2010, Susan Kistler wrote an entry for aea365 on Sites for Free Photos for …
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I’m Roger Miranda, an Independent Evaluator (here’s my website), and author of Eva the Evaluator, a storybook for both young and old explaining what evaluation is. This summer, I facilitated a workshop at the University of Manitoba’s Summer Institute on Program Evaluation. For it, I solicited ideas via Evaltalk, the American Evaluation Association’s public discussion …
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When you type a general search term into google, the most frequently returned first response is from Wikipedia, the giant online crowd-sourced encyclopedia of knowledge. While wikipedia’s reliability may be called into question, its accuracy is based on the work of the masses – of you and I and our willingness to contribute, edit, correct, …
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My name is Susan Kistler, and I am the American Evaluation Association’s Executive Director. Today, following up from vacation, I’m updating a post from February of 2010 in order to encourage you to make the most of aea365 and blog-based web content. Hot Tip – Add to and read the comments: Most, but not all, …
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My name is Ariana Weld and I am slowly but surely writing my doctoral thesis. I want to tell you about Scrivener. Rad Resource – Scrivener http://www.literatureandlatte.com/scrivener.php: According to its website “Scrivener is a powerful content-generation tool for writers that allows you to concentrate on composing and structuring long and difficult documents. While it gives …
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