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LaRED TIG Week: Lessons Learned from Community-Engaged Evaluations by Jessica Saucedo and Tatiana Elisa Bustos

1 Comment / Latinx Responsive Evaluation Discourse / August 22, 2020

(Spanish version) Hello! We are Jessica Saucedo and Tatiana Elisa Bustos, PhD students studying community psychology with interests in health equity research, implementation science, and equitable evaluation with Indigenous and Latinx communities. We wanted to share our experiences completing community-engaged evaluation internships in the context of first-generation doctoral students and in relation to engaging marginalized …

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LaRED TIG Week: Deepening our ability to understand our Latinx communities and our culturally responsive approaches by Grisel M. Robles-Schrader, Susana Morales and David Garcia

1 Comment / Latinx Responsive Evaluation Discourse / August 25, 2020

(Spanish version) ?Saludos! We are Grisel M. Robles-Schrader, Susana Morales and David Garcia from the Latinx Responsive Evaluation Discourse (La RED) Topical Interest Group (TIG). We are excited to be kicking off this AEA365 week in advance of Hispanic/Latino/Latinx heritage month which begins mid-September. To center Latinx voices in evaluation, one must first recognize that …

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Getting Ready for the Conference with the AEA Guiding Principles by Leanne Kallemeyn

Leave a Comment / Uncategorized / September 1, 2020

My name is Leanne Kallemeyn, and I am currently a member of the AEA Guiding Principles Working Group.  As we get ready for the 2020 virtual AEA conference, I want to address a change that was planned prior to the COVID-19 pandemic.  If you submitted a proposal, you may recall that you were asked to …

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Is Virtual Logic Model Coaching Here to Stay? by Taylor Harrell and Kendra Straub

2 Comments / Uncategorized / August 22, 2020

Hello, AEA colleagues! We are internal evaluators Taylor Harrell and Kendra Straub from the Metropolitan Area Action Committee on Anti-Poverty (MAAC), whose mission is to maximize self-sufficiency with families and individuals through high-quality programs and advocacy in our communities. As a result of the disruption caused by COVID-19, our programs have been required to pivot …

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RTD TIG Week: Evaluation of Research Collaborations Enabled through Linked Datasets by Jodi Basner

Leave a Comment / Research, Technology and Development Evaluation / July 26, 2020

My name is Jodi Basner and I’m a Scientific Analyst on Clarivate’s Web of Science Consulting Team. It is exciting to be involved in a time, although unfortunately most recently born out of the COVID-19 pandemic, when research is exhibiting a dramatic shift toward enabling collaborations; directly through researchers providing complementary perspectives to a common …

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Growing Tolerance To The Incertitude Linked To My Practice As A Consultant By Sara Vaca

1 Comment / Uncategorized / August 15, 2020

Dear AEA365 readers, I’m Sara Vaca, independent consultant and frequent Saturday contributor. Last week a friend-colleague told me that she was thinking about becoming independent and she asked me about my experience and how I deal with it. I’ve written before about it, but this week, while being on holiday-ish mode with my family by …

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Policy Governance Week: Evolution of the board after 3 years of service by Bianca Montrosse-Moorhead, Eric Barela and Jara Dean-Coffey

Leave a Comment / Uncategorized / August 1, 2020

Hello! We are Bianca Montrosse-Moorhead, Eric Barela and Jara Dean-Coffey. Our board service began in January 2018, which marked the year that Policy Governance (PG) was fully and formally instituted at AEA (led by Leslie Goodyear).  The fact that the work towards adoption began in 2008 and was not completed until two years ago is …

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Oregon Evaluators Week: Using R to Automate Analysis and Provide Immediate Feedback to Clients by David Keyes

Leave a Comment / Quantitative Methods: Theory and Design / July 24, 2020

I’m David Keyes, the founder of R for the Rest of Us.  In addition to training folks to use R, I also do consulting work, helping organizations to do complex tasks with R to improve their work. Through doing this work, I’ve become convinced that R has the power to provide immediate feedback to organizations …

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Adaptive Capacity Assessment in Times of Corona by Jennifer Cohen & Batya Kallus

Leave a Comment / Uncategorized / July 25, 2020

We are Jennifer (Jenny) Cohen (Evaluation Capacity-Building) and Batya Kallus (Israel Director) at the Social Venture Fund for Jewish-Arab Equality and Shared Society.  Lessons Learned: Learning and evaluation at non-profit organizations, as many of us know, often take a backseat during times of crisis. Many evaluators and foundation professionals committed to organizational learning of us …

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Designing Accessible Digital Evaluation Materials by Don Glass

4 Comments / Uncategorized / June 17, 2020

Hi, I am Don Glass, a DC-based developmental evaluator, learning designer, and proud member of the Disabilities and Underrepresented Populations TIG. COVID-19 has increased our reliance on- and maybe fast-tracked- our use of digital and online communication to serve our diverse evaluation clients and audiences. This is an opportunity to push our evaluation communication design …

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