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Teaching Tips Week: Helen Holmquist-Johnson on Teaching Evaluability Assessment

Leave a Comment / Teaching of Evaluation / September 2, 2011

My name is Helen Holmquist-Johnson and I teach a course in program evaluation to Master’s of Social Work students. This tip is on the facilitation of an evaluability assessment – a pre-evaluation tool. Hot Tip: The evaluability assessment has been likened to grooming the slopes before skiing which is a fitting metaphor to use with …

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EPE TIG Week: Michel Ehrlich on Monitoring Legislation

Leave a Comment / Advocacy and Policy Change, Environmental Program Evaluation / April 19, 2011

My name is Michel Ehrlich and I am the Publisher of EU Issue Tracker. We provide regulatory monitoring and tracking services, looking at European Union (EU) regulation and policy, and we cover several major policy areas including Environment, Energy, Transport, and others. There are, of course, a large number of people, in a wide variety …

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IC TIG Week: Amy Germuth on Evaluating Your Own Consulting Practice

Leave a Comment / Independent Consulting / August 22, 2011

Hi, I am Amy Germuth, President and Founder of EvalWorks, LLC and blogger at EvalThought.  So you are an evaluation consultant.  You evaluate programs/projects as part of an evaluation consultancy you own, co-own, or work for.  But how often do you evaluate your own business? Hot Tip #1: Think logic model.  Do you have a …

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MNEA Week: Melissa Chapman Haynes on Program Evaluation Standards

Leave a Comment / Organizational Learning and Evaluation Capacity Building, Program Theory and Theory Driven Evaluation / February 28, 2011

Hello! I am Dr. Melissa Chapman Haynes, and I am a Senior Evaluator with Professional Data Analysts, Inc. in Minneapolis, Minnesota. In this post, I propose that the Program Evaluation Standards (PgES) is a fundamental tool that can help us reflect on the values we bring to our evaluation practice. The five standards, all of …

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LGBT Week: Joe Heimlich on Why Ask Questions?

3 Comments / Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgender Issues / September 1, 2011

Greetings! I’m Joe Heimlich, a Professor at The Ohio State University with Extension, the School of Environment & Natural Resources, and the Environmental Science Graduate Program. I’m also a Senior Research Associate with the Institute for Learning Innovation. This year, along with John Daws, I’m Program co-Chair for the AEA LGBT Issues TIG. Hot Tip: …

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DVR Week: Chris Lysy on Data Sources that Embrace Data Visualization

1 Comment / Data Visualization and Reporting / February 3, 2011

My name is Chris Lysy and I am a Research Analyst at Westat. I am the creator of EvalCentral and I also blog at Fresh Spectrum. Additionally, you can find me on Twitter: @clysy. One promising new online trend is the addition of data visualization tools on major data source websites. So often data is …

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EPE Week: Matt Keene on The Environmental Evaluators Network

Leave a Comment / Environmental Program Evaluation / December 4, 2011

My name is Matt Keene and I work with the Environmental Protection Agency’s Evaluation Support Division, where I help to coordinate the Environmental Evaluators Network (EEN). The purpose of the EEN is to advance the field of environmental evaluation through more systematic and collective learning. The EEN’s 5th annual Forum will be held in Washington …

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Susan Kistler on a Free Tool for Adding Interactivity to Online Reports: Innovative Reporting Part IV

3 Comments / Data Visualization and Reporting, Integrating Technology into Evaluation / June 10, 2014

I am Susan Kistler, contributing editor at TheSmarterOne.com (we finally launched this month – yay!) and former Executive Director for the American Evaluation Association. aea365 contributors have written before about producing online reports (for example here and here), wherein we learned, among other things, that evaluators are still feeling their way in terms of online reporting. …

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LaRED TIG: Evaluator is a Latina Job: Insights from Our Career Pathways into Evaluation by Leah C. Neubauer and Ayesha Boyce

Leave a Comment / Latinx Responsive Evaluation Discourse, Uncategorized / October 23, 2024

We are Leah C. Neubauer and Ayesha Boyce. We represent unique pathways into evaluation and we developed this blog to share our own journeys. We are also fierce amigas, collaborators, advocates, and sponsors to each and la causa. We are excited for the upcoming 10-year anniversary of LaRED. The MIE and LaRED TIGs fostered support for critical evaluation scholarship and deep community connection. People, relationships, and stories bind our work together.