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Memorial Day Week: The Fort Bragg Evaluation: A military setting that created evaluation history by Len Bickman

Leave a Comment / Military and Veteran’s / May 28, 2020 May 23, 2020

I am Len Bickman, AEA Past-President, Professor Emeritus, Vanderbilt University, and currently Research Professor, Center for Children and Families, Florida International University and President, Feedback Research Institute. Today, I am offering lessons from a quarter-century old evaluation widely known as the Fort Bragg Evaluation. I examined the effectiveness of mental health services delivered in a …

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IDPE Week: Why bother with graduate education in evaluation? An alumni perspective by Amy M. Gullickson

3 Comments / Graduate Student and New Evaluators / May 22, 2020 May 18, 2020

Hi! I’m Amy M. Gullickson, 2010 IDPE graduate and Acting Co-Director and Senior Lecturer, University of Melbourne Centre for Program Evaluation, Melbourne, VIC, Australia. One of the challenges to graduate education in evaluation is the Dunning-Kruger effect. Because evaluation is an everyday activity and a professional activity, and all the other kinds of activities in …

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Evaluation in the time of Covid 19 by Isabelle Collins

8 Comments / Uncategorized / May 13, 2020 May 20, 2020

Evaluation in the time of Covid 19 by Isabelle Collins Kia Ora My name is Isabelle Collins, and I am a principal advisor, research and evaluation at Oranga Tamariki the Ministry for Children in New Zealand. At the time of writing the virus has not (as far as we know) escaped into the community here …

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Welcome to AEA366 (at least for 2020)! by Sheila B Robinson

Leave a Comment / Uncategorized / February 29, 2020 February 29, 2020

Happy Leap Day readers! I’m Sheila B Robinson, aea365 Lead Curator and sometimes Saturday contributor. Since we get an extra day in our 2020 calendar, we get an extra article on aea365…er, aea366, and this one is pretty much just for fun. Di you know that Leap Year is the ultimate example of evaluation use …

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Practice Positivity: Thinking Happy Thoughts in 2020

2 Comments / Uncategorized / February 15, 2020 February 18, 2020

Hi, I’m Cady Stokes, editor of AEA’s monthly newsletter. It’s that time of year again—the holiday bliss has officially worn off, it’s beyond cold out, and it seems like we’re stuck inside until further notice. This makes it easy to get wrapped up in those ever-present winter blues. So, how do we combat these feelings of …

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CREATE Week: Assessment Equity: The Needed Shift from Standardization by Sheila Wilson

4 Comments / Prek-12 Educational Evaluation / January 9, 2020 January 4, 2020

Hi evaluators, I’m Sheila Wilson, educator, school leader, adjunct professor and passionate enthusiast for amplifying learning. This is my first contribution to the AEA blog, and I am eager to speak to the need for equity with regard to the assessment of students. The call for performance assessments did not come from concerns of equal …

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AaEA Week: Using CRM platforms in performance monitoring for consistent, reliable, and useful data by Scott Klisures, Colin Regan, and Gizelle Gopez

Leave a Comment / Uncategorized / December 31, 2019 December 28, 2019

Hi, this is Scott Klisures, Colin Regan of Deloitte Consulting LLP, and Gizelle Gopez also with Deloitte, and President-Elect of the Atlanta-area Evaluation Association. We are here to share tips on how to customer relationship management (CRM) platforms in performance measurement can increase the utility of your data for program improvement and enhancement. As technology …

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Social Chatter at Eval19 by Jayne Corso

Leave a Comment / Uncategorized / November 30, 2019 November 30, 2019

Hi, my name is Jayne Corso and I am the Community Manager for AEA. It was great to gather with the evaluation community at Evaluation 2019! I always look forward to attending the conference as it gives me a chance to greet our members and meet volunteers in person, instead of over email. I also enjoy following …

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Focus Group Planning by Beverly Peters

Leave a Comment / Qualitative Methods / August 20, 2019 August 18, 2019

Hello again! I am Beverly Peters, assistant professor of Measurement and Evaluation at American University. This is the second article in a 6-part series on Using Focus Groups for Monitoring and Evaluation. In the first article, we learned that focus groups are an appropriate data collection tool when the topic or evaluation question would benefit from …

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APC TIG Week: Using Twitter to Track Narrative Change for Policy Advocacy Efforts by Laura Pryor & Heather Lewis-Charp

Leave a Comment / Advocacy and Policy Change / June 13, 2019 June 10, 2019

We are Heather Lewis-Charp and Laura Pryor, researchers at SPR, an evaluation firm located in Oakland, California. Within the advocacy field, framing is often key to winning in the court of public opinion. Phrases that capture the influence of complex issues on people’s lives have a powerful effect on how individuals and policy makers understand …

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