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STEM Program Evaluation Lab Week: Tips from Undergraduate Students for Mentoring Undergrad Lab Assistants by Chandni Lal, Caraline Malloy, Aundrea Smith, Annaia Ndjoli, Charles J. Rouse, and Myranda Cook

Leave a Comment / Graduate Student and New Evaluators, STEM Education and Training / August 14, 2021

We are Chandni Lal, Caraline Malloy, Aundrea Smith, Annaia Ndjoli, Charles J. Rouse, and Myranda Cook of the STEM Program Evaluation Lab (SPEL). We are UNC Greensboro psychology undergraduate students who work with graduate students and faculty on lab tasks such as data collection and coding, project presentations, and have discussions regarding the importance of …

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STEM Program Evaluation Lab Week: Lessons Learned when Mentoring Undergraduate Students by Onyinyechukwu Onwuka du Bruyn, Brianna Hooks Singletary, and Grettel Arias Orozco

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

Hello! Our names are Onyinyechukwu Onwuka du Bruyn, Brianna Hooks Singletary, and Grettel Arias Orozco from Nigeria, the United States of America, and Costa Rica, respectively. We are doctoral students in the UNC Greensboro Educational Research Methodology department specializing in Program Evaluation. We are members of the STEM Program Evaluation Lab (SPEL) under the tutelage …

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STEM Program Evaluation Lab Week: Training culturally responsive evaluators: The STEM Program Evaluation Lab by Aileen Reid, Ayesha Boyce and Tiffany L. S. Tovey

1 Comment / STEM Education and Training / August 14, 2021

Welcome to AEA365 STEM Program Evaluation Lab (SPEL) week, co-directed by Ayesha Boyce, Ph.D., Associate Professor at Arizona State University and Aileen Reid, Ph.D., Assistant Professor at UNC Greensboro, along with SPEL faculty affiliate, Tiffany L. S. Tovey, Ph.D., Clinical Assistant Professor, UNC Greensboro. Together, we train 11 graduate and 6 undergraduate students and evaluate/research …

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NC Evaluators Week: Evaluation as civic practice by Tim Leisman

Leave a Comment / Uncategorized / August 7, 2021

I’m Tim Leisman and I organize with Code for Greensboro, a chapter of the national nonprofit Code for America. I’m passionate about civic tech, a phrase that describes a movement beyond just “technology for civic purposes” which is what the phrase implies at first. Civic hackers – those who engage in civic tech work – …

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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: Feedback Loops- Add on’s or must have? by Kamna Mantode

1 Comment / Uncategorized / August 11, 2021

Hello, my name is Kamna Mantode. I work as a Senior Monitoring and Evaluation Specialist at Compassion International. Having earned a PhD in Public Administration and through my work experience of over 10 years supporting evaluation in public and nonprofit space, I hold a high regard for cultivating “feedback” and “listening” practices in development and …

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NC Evaluators Week: Teaching Moments in Evaluation by Carrol Warren

2 Comments / Uncategorized / August 12, 2021

Greetings fellow AEA evaluators! I am Carrol Warren and I am fortunate to have the opportunity to teach graduate courses centered around evaluation and program planning. It is through those teaching experiences that I’ve come to appreciate unique assignments that serve to engage my students as they learn about evaluation.  Evaluators serve in a position …

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NC Evaluators Week: Considerations for Responding to an RFP by Ellen Wilson

Leave a Comment / Uncategorized / August 7, 2021

Hi. I’m Ellen Wilson. I worked for two decades at RTI International in North Carolina, doing public health research and evaluation, after which I started my own consulting business, Insight Evaluation. I’ve been thinking a lot about the process of responding to requests for proposals (RFPs) lately, as I work through what lessons from my …

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NC Evaluators Week: How I Benefit from Being a Non-Traditional Graduate Student in Program Evaluation by Noelle Wyman Roth

2 Comments / Graduate Student and New Evaluators / August 7, 2021

My name is Noelle Wyman Roth and I am a Research & Evaluation Analyst at the Social Science Research Institute at Duke University. In addition to working as a full-time evaluator, I am beginning a part-time PhD program at UNC-Greensboro this fall. I’m writing to share why being a non-traditional PhD student by pursuing my …

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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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