I’m Susan Kistler, the American Evaluation Association’s Executive Director. Once each year I write explicitly to those of you who are not AEA members in hopes of encouraging you to join the association. Hot Tip – Join AEA: Membership in AEA is only $80 per year, $60 if your primary membership is with the Canadian …
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I’m Susan Kistler, the American Evaluation Association’s Executive Director and intrepid aea365 Saturday contributor. As 2011 drew to a close, we took the opportunity to look back over the year and see what represented the most-read posts on aea365. Here’s a chance to catch up on some of the hottest content if you missed it …
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Greetings from the Midwest! We are Jenell Holstead (University of Wisconsin-Green Bay) and Mindy Hightower King (Indiana University). For the past eight years, we have evaluated 21st Century Community Learning after school programs both at the local level, as well as statewide initiatives in Indiana and Kentucky. This post discusses best practices for evaluating out-of-school …
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I’m Roger Miranda, an Independent Evaluator (here’s my website), and author of Eva the Evaluator, a storybook for both young and old explaining what evaluation is. This summer, I facilitated a workshop at the University of Manitoba’s Summer Institute on Program Evaluation. For it, I solicited ideas via Evaltalk, the American Evaluation Association’s public discussion …
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Hello. I’m Antonio J. Castro, and I am an assistant professor in the Department of Learning, Teaching, and Curriculum at the University of Missouri-Columbia. I teach courses in qualitative research and have been project director and coordinator for a variety of grant-funded initiatives. Project directors are constantly tasked with trying to represent the quality of …
Antonio J. Castro on Program Evaluation: More than Just Numbers Read More »
I am Dr. Shonta Smith, an Assistant Professor in the Department of Elementary, Early and Special Education at Southeast Missouri State University in Cape Girardeau Missouri. Like my fellow university professors, I too, am evaluated each semester by my students in order to assess my overall teaching performance. The purpose of the evaluation is to …
Shonta Smith on Student Ratings of Instruction: Evaluating the Professor Read More »
Hi, my name is Christopher Moore. I am a doctoral student in Quantitative Methods in Education at the University of Minnesota and a Quantitative Analyst at the Minnesota Department of Education. My interests include preventing educational and health disparities, latent variable models, spatial statistical methods, and causal theory and inference. Hot Tip: So you’re conducting …
Christopher Moore on Structural Equation Modeling for Theory-Driven Evaluation Read More »
Hi, my name is Samantha Grant, and I work for the University of Minnesota Extension as an Extension Educator for Program Evaluation. Some of my work entails designing and implementing evaluations with youth in the 4-H program. I would like to share some tips when conducting evaluations with youth. Hot Tip – Build relationships: “Kids …
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