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SW TIG Week: Alicia McCoy on How to Engage Social Workers in Evaluation

Hello, my name is Alicia McCoy and I am the Research and Evaluation Manager at Family Life in Melbourne, Australia.  Family Life is a nonprofit community organization that supports families, children and young people.  A big part of my job is ensuring our practitioners (both social workers and other human service professionals) value and participate …

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Cameron Norman on The Evaluator-as-Designer

You might not think so, but I think you’re a designer. My name is Cameron Norman and I work with health and human service clients doing evaluation and design for innovation. As the Principal of CENSE Research + Design I bring together concepts like developmental evaluation, complexity science and design together for clients to help …

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Best of aea365 week: Michael Quinn Patton on Using Children’s Stories to Open up Evaluation Dialogues

Greetings colleagues. My moniker is Michael Quinn Patton and I do independent evaluation consulting under the name Utilization-Focused Evaluation, which just happens also to be the title of my main evaluation book, now in its 4th edition. I am a former AEA president. One of the challenges I’ve faced over the years, as many of us do, …

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Bloggers Week: Sara Vaca on Visual Brains

Hi! I’m Sara Vaca, an economist reconverted into an evaluator and at the same time Data “Visualizer”. My idea is becoming a full time evaluator somewhere in the world, but for the moment I’m happy working as an evaluator consultant for short missions, based in Southern France. Rad Resource – Visualbrains.info: In 2011 while on …

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Cultural Competence Week: Dominica McBride on AEA 2013 and Spreading the Word on Cultural Competence

Hi, I’m Dominica McBride, CEO of Become, Inc. and a member of the AEA Public Statement on Cultural Competence in Evaluation Dissemination Working Group. The working group is charged with spreading the word about the statement and helping evaluators integrate the information from the statement into practice, teaching, policy, etc. At this year’s conference, we …

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Chris Metzner on Presentation Blues… and Reds and Yellows

Hello, my name is Chris Metzner. I am a graphic and web designer based out of Jacksonville, Florida. I developed and continue to work with the AEA to maintain the p2i Potent Presentations Initiative website. Most of us want to be better presenters. We are learning about the value of an important message, effective slide …

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DVR Week: Ann Emery on the Dataviz Hall of Fame for Evaluation

Greetings, I’m Ann Emery from Innovation Network in Washington, DC. A few years ago, I discovered Hans Rosling’s 200 Countries, 200 Years, 4 Minutes video. I’d never seen anyone share data in a way that simply made so much sense. Since then, I’ve been hooked on dataviz. Thankfully, I’m not alone! As the demand for …

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EdEval Week: Deborah Mattila on Evaluation of Learning and Teaching 21st Century Skills

I am Deborah Mattila, Research and Evaluation Director at the Improve Group. Over the last several years I have had the pleasure of evaluating many school-based initiatives that explicitly and implicitly address development and application of 21st Century Skills, a set of learning and innovation skills built around the 4 Cs of Critical Thinking, Communication, …

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Priya Small on “What I Wish I Had Known in My Beginner Evaluator Days”

I am Priya Small, an independent public health evaluation consultant, and today I will talk about lessons I have learned from riding the steep learning curve. Many times we may tend to devalue our early learning experiences as evaluators. But as this is a time of rapid growth, sharing these lessons is profitable. Lesson Learned: …

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