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RoE TIG Week: The Power of Valuing in Evaluation: How the Layering of Qualitative and Quantitative Data in Program Evaluation Enhances the Value to the People Served by Programs by Sondra LoRe

2 Comments / Research on Evaluation / May 31, 2020

My name is Sondra LoRe and I often have the pleasure of evaluating STEM education programs which include the training and development of students, educators, and community advocates in outreach and information science education. I work as the evaluation manager for the National Institute for STEM Evaluation & Research (NISER) and as an adjunct professor …

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RoE TIG Week: Institutionalizing Evaluation in the U.S. Federal Government by, Esther C. Nolton, PhD

4 Comments / Research on Evaluation / June 8, 2020

Greetings! I am Esther Nolton and I recently completed my PhD in Research and Evaluation Methods at George Mason University. As a GEDI Scholar, I had an opportunity to witness large-scale changes in the culture of valuing and capacity for using evaluation in the U.S. Federal government when the Evidence Act (P.L. 115-435) was enacted. …

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RoE TIG Week: Knowing Ourselves: Driving the Field Forward Through Self-Discovery by Maggie Schultz Patel

2 Comments / Research on Evaluation / May 31, 2020

Hi there! I’m Maggie Schultz Patel, an independent evaluation consultant and doctoral student of Research Methods and Statistics at the University of Denver. Program evaluation is still a relatively new discipline, and there is still a need to increase our knowledge of ourselves as a field. Further, according to a recent needs assessment, there are key research …

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RoE TIG Week: Integrating Me-search and Re-search by John LaVelle

1 Comment / Research on Evaluation / May 31, 2020

Hello!  My name is John LaVelle.  I am on the Evaluation Studies faculty at University of Minnesota, and one of the things I get to do is help my students conceptualize and implement original research on the field of evaluation (RoE).  We organize our projects by Mel Mark’s research on evaluation taxonomy: contexts, activities, outcomes, …

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RoE TIG Week: Evaluator Competencies Assessment Tool (ECAT) by Minji Cho, Ann Marie Castleman, Haley Umans, and Mike Mwirigi

1 Comment / Research on Evaluation / June 8, 2020

Hi! We are Minji Cho, Ann Marie Castleman, Haley Umans, and Mike Mwirigi. We are students in the Claremont Graduate University’s Evaluation and Applied Research doctoral program. For the past year, we have been developing the Evaluator Competencies Assessment Tool (ECAT) which provides evaluators and researchers with a survey to evaluate competencies in five domains: …

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RoE TIG Week: Getting RoE Published by J. Bradley Cousins

3 Comments / Research on Evaluation / May 31, 2020

Got a publication idea but don’t know where to start? Looking for some practical tips to help get your research out the door? This blog is for you. Greetings. I’m Brad Cousins, Professor Emeritus at the University of Ottawa, Canada. I am kicking off the Research on Evaluation AEA365 Blog Week. I’ve spent the bulk of my …

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What do you want to learn next? A quest for input by Sheila B Robinson

1 Comment / Uncategorized / June 6, 2020

Hello Readers! Sheila B Robinson here, in my role as Lead Curator for our association blog, sometimes Saturday contributor, AND member of the AEA Professional Development Working Group (PDWG). Lesson Learned: High quality professional development is essential. My first experiences with professional development happened more years ago than I care to admit. But, because many …

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NA TIG Week: Using a Needs Assessment Double Scale Survey Method to Pilot Test a Survey Instrument by Sue Hamann

1 Comment / Needs Assessment / May 30, 2020

I’m Sue Hamann, an evaluator for 40 years, and employed at the National Institutes of Health as a Health Scientist and Science Evaluation Officer.  Many people who are not trained in the analytic sciences and social research sciences are called upon to conduct evaluations.  For the last several years, I’ve tried to bring issues about …

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NA TIG Week: Images as Data for Needs Assessments and Evaluation by Madhawa “Mads” Palihapitiya

3 Comments / Needs Assessment / May 30, 2020

Hi! I’m Madhawa “Mads” Palihapitiya, an evaluator, researcher and teacher from UMass Boston who has been using digital images for program evaluation for over half-a-decade. It was the anthropologists, visual sociologists and arts-based researchers who first used photographs for research. Since then, the use of digital images has gained status in evaluation as an “authentic source” …

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NA TIG Week: Necessity and Sufficiency: A quick example by Ryan Watkins

1 Comment / Needs Assessment / May 30, 2020

I’m Ryan Watkins and I teach needs assessment at George Washington University and for The Evaluator’s Institute. Last year in AEA365, I introduced formulas for how we can determine the necessity and/or sufficiency of a desired result leading to other desired results – thus offering tools for quantifying needs (i.e., gaps in results).  This year I’m offering …

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