I am Kathy Bolland, charter member of the American Evaluation Association (AEA), and “owner” of EVALTALK. My primary professional identity is evaluator although now my primary responsibilities are in research, education, and administration. Rad Resource: EVALTALK. Evaltalk is an electronic discussion “list” sponsored by AEA. Subscribers need not be AEA members. In 1995, during the …
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I’m Kathleen Tinworth and I co-chair the recently re-named Arts, Culture, and Audiences TIG of AEA with Don Glass, who began this week’s AEA365 series. I lead the Audience Insights department at the Denver Museum of Nature & Science and also consult via my alter ego, ExposeYourMuseum. Lessons Learned Don started this week with a …
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I’m Jessica Sickler, and I work as a research and evaluation consultant, as a senior researcher and manager of the Lifelong Learning Group. My career began in a zoo; in answer to the obligatory cocktail party question, “No, I did not shovel the poop.” I started as an internal evaluator at the Wildlife Conservation Society …
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I’m Jeff Sheldon from Claremont Graduate University and today I’m sharing the Readiness for Organizational Learning and Evaluation (ROLE) instrument because I think it’s a vastly under-utilized resource that evaluation practitioners should consider when they want to find out whether an organization is a learning organization or ready for an evaluation. In my own research …
I am Susan Kistler, the Executive Director of the American Evaluation Association and the owner of iMeasureMedia. I usually don’t mention the latter on aea365, but today I want to be clear that I’m wearing my iMeasureMedia hat since AEA does not endorse particular products or services. Last week, at Evaluation 2012, I gave a …
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Hey there. I’m Stephanie Evergreen, AEA’s eLearning Initiatives Director and general data communications geek. Susan Kistler has a family obligation this weekend, so I’m stepping in to share with you the newest developments in AEA’s Potent Presentations Initiative (p2i). You’ve heard about p2i, right? It is a new initiative to help AEA members improve their …
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Happy Saturday! I am Susan Kistler, the American Evaluation Association’s Executive Director and aea365 Saturday contributor. This post is Part II to the one I shared on April 28 on Inspiration and Education for Data Visualization, focusing today on two great curations of DataViz tools and tutorials. Curations are sets of items that are purposefully …
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My name is Elizabeth Autio and I am an associate at Education Northwest, a non-profit organization serving educators through research, evaluation, and technical assistance. This is a companion piece to my earlier post on Recruiting Participants for Your Study: Practical Strategies and Advice that more specifically details tips on recruiting teachers into your study. I …
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I am Lori Peterson an Assistant Professor at the University of Northern Colorado. Recently, I worked on a project conducting a series of focus groups with high school students with disabilities. I wanted to share tips and lessons learned from this experience. Hot Tips: Feed them and they will come! High school students love food. …
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I am Susan Kistler, the American Evaluation Association’s Executive Director and regular aea365 Saturday contributor. I wanted to take today and build on Marc Smith’s post from yesterday regarding NodeXL. Marc has been kind enough to do a bit of coaching to help get us up to speed on the use of this free tool, …
