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Podcasting as Evaluators by Nora Nemeth

Leave a Comment / Uncategorized / September 12, 2021

Greetings, fellow evaluators! My name is Nora Nemeth, and I am a member of the Research, Evaluation, and Learning Team at the Institute of International Education (IIE). I am based out of the Budapest, Hungary office. One of the most inspiring aspects of my work is having the opportunity to directly hear from grantees of international scholarships and fellowships and learn about their trajectories and their impact on their communities. In collaboration …

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MSI Fellowship Week: Reflective Practice and Critical Reflection: Quiet Moments with an Extension Education Evaluator by LaJoy R. Spears

1 Comment / Uncategorized / September 19, 2021

Hello! My name is LaJoy R. Spears, Program Development and Evaluation Specialist at New Mexico State University, Cooperative Extension Service. As the country grappled with COVID-19, I was navigating a new position, university, city and state. The combination of stressors required adjusting eating habits, establishing new goals, and revising exercise plans. I also focused on …

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YFE TIG Week: You(th) Matter: A Collaborative, Youth-focused, Community-Involved Inquiry about Mental Health and Well-being by Christina Koumoutsidis and Charlotte Schwass

Leave a Comment / Youth Focused Evaluation / August 20, 2021

Hello Evaluators! Hello Evaluators! Our names are Christina Koumoutsidis and Charlotte Schwass and we are two research assistants part of a group of educational evaluators. We are writing to share our experiences collaborating with youth on a school-community mental health and well-being (MHWB) inquiry. For the past three years, we have been involved in an …

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YFE TIG Week: Accessing Youth Expertise in Designing Surveys for Youth by Mary Murray

1 Comment / Youth Focused Evaluation / August 20, 2021

Greetings. I’m Mary Murray, founder of of MEMconsultants. For two decades my team has built the capacity of youth-serving organizations to use evaluation practices to strengthen programs. Consistently, this has involved gathering information from youth via end of program surveys, interviews and focus groups. Often, we incorporate activities that expand beyond simply collecting information from …

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Evaluators As Essential Workers by Michael Quinn Patton

1 Comment / Uncategorized / August 20, 2021

I am Michael Quinn Patton of Utilization-Focused Evaluation offering ruminations on evaluators as essential workers as a contribution to the American celebration of Labor Day on September 6. The pandemic has spotlighted and elevated essential work. Who are essential workers? Certainly frontline and emergency medical personnel, first responders, and all who maintain our infrastructure are …

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STEM Program Evaluation Lab Week: Multiculturalism in STEM Program Evaluation: Perspective of Three International Students by Adeyemo Adetogun, Onyinyechukwu Onwuka, and Grettel Arias Orozco

Leave a Comment / STEM Education and Training / August 14, 2021

Hello! We are Adeyemo Adetogun, Onyinyechukwu Onwuka, and Grettel Arias Orozco, three international doctoral students from Nigeria and Costa Rica, and members of the STEM Program Evaluation Laboratory (SPEL) at UNC Greensboro (UNCG). We like to share with you some of our perspectives on multiculturalism as part of our research and evaluation assistantship in the …

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NC Evaluators Week: Why your online evaluation capacity building efforts are doomed to fail by Chris Lysy

2 Comments / Uncategorized / August 7, 2021

Hello my fellow evaluators. My name is Chris Lysy, and I am a freelance evaluator, designer, and trainer based in Cary, North Carolina.  My consulting work involves helping organizations deal with the virtual shift (shifting programs from the “real world” to the “virtual world”). Over the last couple of decades lots of organizations have evolved …

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NC Evaluators Week: Expanding an AEA affiliate: Lessons from RTP Evaluators-turned-NC Evaluators by Jessica Sperling

Leave a Comment / Uncategorized / August 7, 2021

Hello, everyone! My name is Jessica Sperling, and I work in evaluation-aligned arenas based in Duke University: leading the Applied Research, Evaluation & Engagement area at Duke’s Social Science Research Institute, co-directing Evaluation and Strategic Planning for Duke’s Clinical and Translational Science Institute, and teaching evaluation and community-partnered research.  More importantly for this post, though, …

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As an evaluator, do I use words (e.g., stakeholder) that can be harmful to others? by Goldie MacDonald & Anita McLees

6 Comments / Uncategorized / August 4, 2021

Hello, we’re Goldie MacDonald and Anita McLees from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). In 2020, CDC scientists and communication specialists prepared principles and preferred terms for non-stigmatizing, bias-free language to guide employees engaged in COVID-19 response activities. At the time, we were both deployed to this response and read the document …

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TOE TIG Week: Making Superstar Social Scientists Journals: Supporting emerging evaluators through culturally responsive and brain compatible teaching and learning by Sondra LoRe

Leave a Comment / Teaching of Evaluation / July 16, 2021

Hi, my name is Sondra LoRe, PhD, and I am the interim director and co-founder of the National Institute for STEM Evaluation & Research (NISER) at the University of Tennessee Knoxville. In addition,  I teach for the Evaluation, Statistics, and Methods (ESM) program at UTK in the evenings. Last Spring I read Kevin Gannon’s book …

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