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Kate Tinworth on Drawing Them In: Graphic Facilitation, Sketching, & Evaluation

8 Comments / Data Visualization and Reporting / June 9, 2015

Hello! I’m Kate Tinworth, Program Co-Chair of the DVRTIG. I am excited to write about one of my favorite parts of my work as an evaluator— drawing. Last year at AEA I co-presented a session called, “Drawing Them In: Graphic Facilitation & Evaluation to Strategically Visualize Change” with my friend Chris Chopyak (a rock star …

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DVR TIG Week: Dave Shellard on Keeping Your Data Out of the Public Domain by Using Free Downloadable Templates for Data Visualization and Reporting

1 Comment / Data Visualization and Reporting / June 2, 2015

Hi! I’m Dave Shellard, the program evaluation manager at a professional association based in Washington, DC and Data Visualization and Reporting TIG (DVR TIG) Program Chair. As a founding member of the DVR TIG I’ve been a long advocate of incorporating meaningful and intentional data viz into communicating evaluation results. Like many of us, I’m …

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CP TIG Week: Steve Erickson on Evaluation by collaboration

1 Comment / Community Psychology / March 25, 2015

I’m Steve Erickson of EMSTAR Research, a community/organizational consulting firm based in Atlanta. For the last 10 years I have served as lead evaluator for the Georgia Family Connection Partnership (GaFCP), a public/private nonprofit that supports a statewide network of “Family Connection” Collaboratives addressing child and family issues in all 159 counties. Georgia is the …

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Kath McNiff on Tools, Tips and Other New Year’s Resolutions

1 Comment / Qualitative Methods / January 10, 2015

Hey there. My name is Kath McNiff and I’m an online community manager at QSR International (the makers of NVivo). Lessons Learned: We’re heading into a brand new year of evaluation (actually, THE year of evaluation). Oh, the joys of a clean slate! A chance to right the wrongs, sharpen the tools, clear the decks …

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MSI Fellowship Week: Art Hernandez on AEA’s Minority Serving Institution (MSI) Fellowship Experience

Leave a Comment / Uncategorized / December 6, 2014

My name is Art Hernandez and I am a Professor and Dean at Texas A&M University Corpus Christi. I participated in one of the very early yearlong experiences as a Fellow and have served as the Director for several cohorts.   I have served as evaluator and teacher or evaluation and am very interested in the …

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OL-ECB Week: Michele Tarsilla on Results-Based Management (RBM) vs. Evaluation

Leave a Comment / Organizational Learning and Evaluation Capacity Building / November 23, 2014

Hello! My name is Michele Tarsilla, an independent evaluation advisor and evaluation capacity development (ECD) specialist with experience in over thirty countries. I have served as Chair of the International and Cross-Cultural Evaluation TIG at AEA and am currently in transition to become the new OL-ECB TIG Co-Chair. The idea for this blog sprang from the …

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Cultural Competence Week: Leah Christina Neubauer and Annelise Noelle Smith on Critical Race Theory and Counter-narrative: Counter-Storytelling, Equity and Evaluation

Leave a Comment / Uncategorized / November 8, 2014

We are Leah Christina Neubauer and Annelise Noelle Smith. Neubauer is based in DePaul’s MPH Program and is President of the Chicagoland Evaluation Association (CEA). Smith works for the Washington State Department of Social and Health Services. We are both interested in Critical Race Theory (CRT) as a theoretical and methodological orientation to promote racial, …

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p2i Week: Jane Davidson on p2i’s Messaging Model for Workshops

Leave a Comment / Uncategorized / January 16, 2016

Potent Presentations aren’t just for paper sessions! This week’s posts, curated by dataviz dynamo Stephanie Evergreen, highlight ways that AEA members have used the Potent Presentations Initiative beyond paper sessions at the annual conference. If you think p2i doesn’t apply to your session type or situation, read on for inspirational guidance! Kia ora (greetings, from New …

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CP TIG Week: Jeff Sheldon on using SEEPPO to determine empowerment evaluation model fidelity, adherence to empowerment evaluation principles, and the likelihood of psychological well – being outcomes.

Leave a Comment / Collaborative, Participatory and Empowerment Evaluation, Community Psychology / August 4, 2014

I’m Jeff Sheldon from the School of Social Science, Policy, and Evaluation at Claremont Graduate University and today I’m introducing the Survey of Empowerment Evaluation Practice, Principles, and Outcomes (SEEPPO). I developed SEEPPO for my dissertation, but more important, as a tool that can be modified for use by researchers on evaluation and evaluation practitioners. …

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Dan McDonnell on Even More Ways to Analyze Tweets with Twitonomy

Leave a Comment / Uncategorized / May 31, 2014

Hello, my name is Dan McDonnell and I am a Community Manager for the American Evaluation Association. In my last Saturday post, I introduced a Twitter measurement and analytics tool called Twitonomy and a few of the basic features available. While you can certainly pull some great data and interesting stats with the free version, the …

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