Hello! I am Kavita Mittapalli, Ph.D. I own a small education research and evaluation firm, MN Associates, Inc. (MNA) outside Washington DC metropolitan area. I founded MNA in 2004 as a graduate student at George Mason University. I have a Ph.D. in Research Design and Methodology in Education. We are a team of five evaluators …
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Hello! I am Kavita Mittapalli. I own a small education research and evaluation firm, MN Associates, Inc. (MNA) outside Washington DC metropolitan area. I founded MNA in 2004 as a graduate student at George Mason University. I have a Ph.D. in Research Design and Methodology in Education. We are a team of five evaluators with …
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Hello again! I am Beverly Peters, an assistant professor of Measurement and Evaluation at American University. This is the third article in a 5 part series on Using Interviews for Monitoring and Evaluation. In the previous article of this series, we discussed unstructured, semi-structured, and structured interviews, and the circumstances under which an evaluator would use …
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Dear Colleagues, My name is Michele Tarsilla ( Twitter @ MiEval_TuEval) and I work as Evaluation Adviser at the UNICEF Regional Office for West and Central Africa (I am also Associate Editor of the African Evaluation Journal). Today, I would like to share with you 5 tips and 10 resources on how to better engage …
Hello! I’m Professor Ian Goldman, CLEAR Anglophone Africa. Mine Pabari and I have brought together eight cases of evidence use by governments to understand how policy makers behaviour was influenced. These draw on use of different evidence sources (research, research synthesis, evaluations and citizen engagement), in 5 countries (Kenya, Uganda, South Africa, Benin, Ghana) and …
This is Marina Lahowin and Tabitha Olang of The Rockefeller Foundation’s Power & Climate team. We have the pleasure of sharing our experience related to this AEA365 week’s focus on Power and Participation in International and Cross Cultural Evaluation. When the novel Coronavirus began to spread across the world, the voices of rural communities were …
Greetings! You have found your way to my blog where we will discuss tips for conducting culturally competent realist evaluation in global contexts. I am Abi Sriharan. I am an Assistant Professor at the Institute of Health Policy, Management and Evaluation at the University of Toronto. I have over fifteen years of experience teaching, researching, and …
I am Sandra Ayoo, Ph.D., an Assistant Professor of Educational Research Methodology, currently teaching, practicing and doing research on Program Evaluation at the University of North Carolina Greensboro. I practiced program evaluation in international development for several years in over 35 African countries as a national and international expert, and I experienced firsthand the power dynamics …
Hello AEA Colleagues! I am Maddison Staszkiewicz, a young and emerging evaluator who found my passion for evaluation while working on an international and cross-cultural evaluation team. As discussed by Jandt in An Introduction to Intercultural Communication (2018), it is not possible to have effective communication with others without first understanding their culture and the …
Greetings AEA365 readers! Sheila B Robinson here, loyal Lead Curator and sometimes Saturday contributor, thrilled that our favorite evaluation conference was able to pivot and become an online learning experience. Still on the fence about attending? Check out the main conference page for all details and answers to many of your questions. Lessons Learned: I’ve …
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