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Youth Focused Evaluation

YFE TIG Week: Lan To on Conducting Youth-Driven Research for a Youth-Led Summit

2 Comments / Youth Focused Evaluation / December 4, 2015

Hi, I am Lan To, Director of Postsecondary Initiatives at Good Shepherd Services in New York City. Each year, Good Shepherd hosts a Youth Summit for our participants in middle-school and high-school-aged programs, where they form teams to work on a research-based service learning project over a 4-month period.  Each team is asked to identify …

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YFE TIG Week: Katie Richards-Schuster on Looking to the Future: Critical Questions for Youth-Focused Evaluation

Leave a Comment / Youth Focused Evaluation / October 2, 2015

My name is Katie Richards-Schuster and I’m the Chair for the Youth Focused Evaluation (YFE) TIG. As we wrap up another year and annual conference nears, it seems fitting to reflect on the future. From the position of chair, there has never been a more exciting time to work in the area of YFE. When …

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YFE Week: Felicia Sullivan on Exploring Game Analytics

5 Comments / Youth Focused Evaluation / September 10, 2014

My name is Felicia Sullivan and I research youth civic engagement at the Center for Information and Research on Civic Learning and Engagement (CIRCLE), a non-partisan research center at Tufts University’s Tisch College of Citizenship & Public Service. Building youth-focused evaluation strategies and working with practitioners are important ways CIRCLE links academic research to what …

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YFE Week: Julie Poncelet, Catherine Borgman-Arboleda, and Jorge Arboleda on Using Participatory Video to Engage Youth in Evaluation in a Creative and Empowering Way

3 Comments / Youth Focused Evaluation / September 10, 2014

We are Julie Poncelet, Catherine Borgman-Arboleda, and Jorge Arboleda of Action Evaluation Collaborative, independent consultants who use evaluation to strengthen social change. We want to share our experiences using participatory video (PV) in evaluations with youth. PV is a dynamic, powerful approach whereby youth use video to capture everything from their stories of change to …

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YFE Week: Jessica Jerney on Coaching Youth Workers in Evaluation

Leave a Comment / Youth Focused Evaluation / September 10, 2014

Hello, this is Jessica Jerney from the Extension Center for Youth Development at the University of Minnesota. I recently served as Project Coordinator for the Innovations on Youth Roles in Evaluation and Assessment project. This initiative included a learning cohort, symposia speakers’ series (featuring Kim Sabo Flores and Katie Richards-Schuster), and applied research. As a …

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YFE Week: Anne Gleason and Miranda Yates on Practical Tools for a Youth Research Camp

1 Comment / Youth Focused Evaluation / September 10, 2014

Hi, we are Anne Gleason and Miranda Yates from the Program Evaluation and Planning Department at Good Shepherd Services in New York City and we would like to share some tools we put together for a youth research camp. Two summers ago, we partnered with youth in one of our afterschool programs to conduct research …

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YFE Week: Jessica Manta-Meyer, Jocelyn Atkins, and Saili Willis on Creative Ways to Solicit Youth Feedback

Leave a Comment / Youth Focused Evaluation / September 10, 2014

Our names are Jessica Manta-Meyer, Jocelyn Atkins and Saili Willis and we are evaluators at Public Profit, an evaluation firm with a special focus on out-of-school time programs for youth. We usually evaluate networks of after school programs as a whole (some of which serve more than 20,000 youth, where a survey is indeed one …

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YFE Week: Kim Sabo Flores and David White on New Perspectives and Voices in Youth Focused Evaluation

Leave a Comment / Youth Focused Evaluation / September 10, 2014

Hello, my name is Kim Sabo Flores and I am David White. We are honored to serve as co-chairs of the Youth Focused Evaluation Topical Interest Group (YFE TIG). As we prepare for the 2014 conference and our annual business meeting, we have to acknowledge how truly remarkable it is that a loosely knit group …

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Samantha Grant on Baby Steps to Building Capacity

Leave a Comment / Youth Focused Evaluation / September 10, 2014

Hi, I’m Samantha Grant, and I work for the University of Minnesota Extension as a Program Evaluator for the Center for Youth Development. As an internal evaluator, building evaluation capacity is crucial for my organization (and my mental health!) Building capacity doesn’t happen overnight, but with a few tactical strategies, you will be on your …

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PD Presenters: Kerry Zaleski, Mary Crave and Tererai Trent on Whose Judgment Matters Most? Using Child-to-Child approaches to evaluate vulnerability-centered programs

1 Comment / Youth Focused Evaluation / August 10, 2014

Hi Eval Friends! We are Kerry Zaleski and Mary Crave of the University of Wisconsin-Extension and Tererai Trent of Tinogona Foundation and Drexel University. Over the past few years we have co-facilitated workshops on participatory M&E methods for centering vulnerable voices at AEA conferences and eStudies. This year, we are pleased to introduce participatory processes …

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