Greetings to the aea365 community. We are Kelly Washburn and Julie Carpineto from The Institute for Community Health in Cambridge, MA. We are the local evaluators of an urban high school-based teen pregnancy prevention program in Greater Boston. We would like to share an example of a creative evaluation project developed with this program. Over 90 high students participated in …
I’m David Fetterman, evaluator, author, entrepreneur, and Google Glass user. Yesterday, we talked about what Google Glass is and how it can revolutionize communications. Today, let’s turn to thinking about how Glass could be used as an evaluation tool. Hot Tips – Glass for Empowerment Evaluation: Youth (with parental permission) can wear the Glass to …
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We are Debi Lang and Sharon Grundel, with the Massachusetts Area Health Education Center Network (MassAHEC) at the University of Massachusetts Medical School’s Center for Health Policy and Research. MassAHEC supports health career exploration programs for diverse youth. Through four community-based AHEC Centers and 19 chapters of HOSA – Future Health Professionals (a national student-led …
Greetings from the University of Chicago! We are Sarah Rand, Amy Cassata, Maurice Samuels and Sandra Holt from Outlier Research and Evaluation at the Center for Elementary Mathematics and Science Education. Our group recently evaluated two Chicago-based elementary education programs: Purple Asparagus, a nutrition education program and Science, Engineering, and Technology for Students, Educators, and Parents (SETSEP), a science …
Hello! I am Melanie Hwalek, CEO of SPEC Associates. For almost two decades (zowie!), SPEC Associates has been working with Girl Scouts of the USA to measure outcomes from various Girl Scout programs. For almost a decade, we’ve been the national evaluator for the federal Rural Youth Development grants that Girl Scouts of the USA …
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Hello, my name is Mariah Kornbluh, graduate student in Ecological Community Psychology at Michigan State University. I am an evaluator and ally with youth in redressing adultism. In an earlier post on adultism, my friend and colleagueMaddy Boesen discussed some of the ways adultism might manifest in youth-focused evaluations and shared some tips for identifying …
Hi, we are Miranda Yates and Anne Gleason from the Program Evaluation and Planning (PEP) Department at Good Shepherd Services in New York City. As part of our agency-wide commitment to youth and family development and evidence-based practice, we recognize the profound value of partnering with youth participants at all stages of program evaluation. Our …
Hello fellow evaluators! My name is Brian Hubbard and I am an administrator and youth worker who created and continues to work directly with a youth council from the Conservation Corps. I have seen the benefits of working with and alongside youth engaging in participatory evaluation. The Conservation Corps is a non-profit organization that provides …
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Hello, I’m Maddy Boesen from the Research Department at GLSEN (the Gay, Lesbian & Straight Education Network). This post is the first of a two-part series about identifying and redressing adultism in youth-focused evaluation that comes from a series of conversations with my friend and colleague, Mariah Kornbluh of Michigan State University. What is adultism? …
Hello, my name is Kim Sabo Flores (Evaluation Access) and I am David White (Oregon State University). We are the co-chairs of the Youth Focused Evaluation Topical Interest Group (YFE TIG). The YFE TIG is an inclusive and participatory space for all evaluators, of any age. The YFE TIG focuses attention on the practices, and …
