Building Evaluation Capacity. David and I have teamed up to apply empowerment evaluation concepts and principles to build evaluation capacity at Google and beyond. We are using rubrics to focus learning, and student ratings to identify areas that are strong or merit attention. We are using a 3-step approach to empowerment evaluation and an evaluation …
I’m Liz Zadnik, Evaluation Enthusiast and lover of all things relationship-building. Although you’d typically hear from me on Saturdays, I’ve been doing some research lately on interorganizational dynamics and partnerships and wanted to share some of my reflections. I have often heard “collaboration” used to describe the pinnacle or ideal state of interorganizational partnerships. Whether …
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I’m Brandon Coffee-Borden, an Associate at Community Science and Program Co-chair for the Systems in Evaluation TIG. In this post, I will discuss the use of social network analysis (SNA) as a way to describe and analyze systems. SNA is an approach to understanding structures and connections through the use of network theory. Networks are …
Hi, we’re Tosca Bruno-van Vijfeijken (Director of the Syracuse University Transnational NGO Initiative) and Gabrielle Watson (independent evaluator). We engaged a group of practitioners at the 2015 AEA conference to talk about organizational change in International Non-Governmental Organizations (INGOs), and explore a hunch that Developmental Evaluation could help organizations manage change. Several large INGOs are …
My name is Natalia Woolley. I am a GEDI scholar from the 2014-15 cohort, and a graduate student in the Community Health Sciences department at UCLA. As part of the GEDI program, I interned at Kaiser Permanente (KP), in the Community Benefit Department’s evaluation unit. At KP, I provided support for the Community Health Needs …
I’m Chithra Adams, a program evaluator at the Human Development Institute, University of Kentucky. I explore how design principles and research can be applied to program evaluation. Rad Idea – prototyping: A key part of the design process is prototyping. Prototyping is a process by which ideas and concepts are tested for technical and social …
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Greetings from Toyin Owolabi at the Women’s Health Action Research Center (WHARC) in Nigeria and Susan Igras at Georgetown University’s Institute for Reproductive Health (IRH). Last year, we joined together on a cross-country project to build capacity in designing and evaluating programs for younger adolescents. Younger adolescent programming and related program evaluation is nascent in …
Hi my name is Jayne Corso and I am the Community Manager for AEA. With Evaluation 2015 coming up, I thought this would be a good time to talk about how Twitter can keep you connected to AEA and the conference. Twitter is a great resource because it is not meant for connecting with friends …
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Hello All! I’m Sheila B Robinson, aea365’s Lead Curator and sometimes Saturday contributor. I’m a collector and connector. I love shopping the internet and collecting resources for evaluation, and I love connecting people to resources. I’m not alone in this endeavor, as many others are doing similar work with their websites as well. Today, I …
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My name is Rebecca Woodland and I have had the pleasure of working to evaluate and cultivate organizational collaboration in a range of contexts and for many different purposes. In this post I’ll share tips that evaluators can use in the developmental, formative, and summative evaluation of inter-organizational and inter-personal collaboration. I’m excited to be …
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