AEA365 – Page 166 – A Tip-a-Day by and for Evaluators

EPE TIG Week: Encouraging Environmental Education Centers to be Realistic About Inspiring Conservation Actions by Rachel Becker-Klein

Leave a Comment / Environmental Program Evaluation / April 23, 2020 April 13, 2020

Hello, my name is Rachel Becker-Klein and I am the founder and Senior Evaluator at Two Roads Consulting. Two Roads has expertise applying utilization-focused and participatory evaluation and research methods to many different types of evaluation efforts. We are currently working with the Alliance for Watershed Education of the Delaware River (AWE), an alliance of …

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EPE TIG Week: Equipping Students to Address Climate Resilience Locally by Lisa Marckini-Polk & Patricia Jessup

1 Comment / Environmental Program Evaluation / April 22, 2020 April 13, 2020

We are Lisa Marckini-Polk (Civic Research Services, Inc.) and Patricia Jessup (Jessup & Associates, LLC), Michigan-based evaluators who have collaboratively evaluated several environmental programs, primarily in K-12 education. Currently we are evaluating a three-year program that equips high school students in Detroit and Ypsilanti, Michigan to increase climate resilience in their communities. The populations in …

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EPE TIG Week: Independent Evaluation Consulting Opportunities and Climate Change by Stephen Maack

Hi, I’m Stephen Maack, an AEA member since 2002, a long-time member and former Chair of the Independent Consulting TIG. I own REAP Change Consultants, a sole proprietorship, and have done many education-related and library evaluation contracts and some non-profit and health consulting. Due to the importance of climate change during the remainder of my …

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EPE TIG Week: Evaluation and the Battle of Our Time by Scott Chaplowe

2 Comments / Environmental Program Evaluation / April 20, 2020 April 16, 2020

Hello! I’m Scott Chaplowe, a member of AEA since 2003, and currently a Director of Evidence, Measurement and Evaluation at the Children’s Investment Fund Foundation (CIFF), based in London. Rad Wake-Up Call: The urgency of climate change and rapid environmental degradation presents an opportunity for action by evaluators on what is arguably the most pressing …

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EPE TIG Week: Seeing Global Interconnections and Trends by Michael Quinn Patton

Leave a Comment / Environmental Program Evaluation / April 19, 2020 April 13, 2020

I am Michael Quinn Patton, founder and director of Utilization-Focused Evaluation, and author of Blue Marble Evaluation: Premises and Principles. In 1972, the first photo of the whole Earth from space became known as The Blue Marble, the home of all humans, seen for the first time without borders or boundaries, a whole Earth perspective. …

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Contactless Evaluation – (in Times of COVID-19) by Vardhani Ratnala

3 Comments / Uncategorized / April 18, 2020 April 21, 2020

Hi, hope you are having a good weekend. This is Vardhani Ratnala, an evaluation consultant. Reading the latest news on COVID-19, specifically the relief packages announced by governments, I can’t help but wonder about work prospects for Evaluation Consultants like me. With travel restrictions and lockdowns imposed due to coronavirus, livelihoods of many evaluation professionals …

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Expanding the Bench™ Week: Shifting Funders’ Mindset on Evaluation by Jackie W. Kaye

Leave a Comment / Uncategorized / April 17, 2020 March 28, 2020

Hi there! My name is Jackie W. Kaye. I am the Chief Learning and Evaluation Officer at Wellspring Philanthropic Fund. I spent the first half of my career as a social scientist doing research and program evaluation, and the second half of my career leading the evaluation function at three Foundations. Early in my career …

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Expanding the Bench™ Week: Thoughts Concerning Technical Contributions of Cultural Responsiveness to Evaluation by Art Hernandez

Leave a Comment / Uncategorized / April 16, 2020 March 28, 2020

Good day! I am Art Hernandez, a Professor at the University of the Incarnate Word in Texas. As an evaluator and teacher of evaluation, I am interested in the processes of cultural responsiveness in theory and practice, especially concerning measurement and assessment. Currently, I am a member of the Expanding the Bench™ Advisory Board and a …

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Expanding the Bench™ Week: Culturally Responsive and Equitable Evaluation: African American Practitioners’ Reflections on Opportunities and Challenges in our Sector by Tracy Hilliard & Michael Arnold

Leave a Comment / Uncategorized / April 15, 2020 April 13, 2020

We are Dr. Tracy Hilliard, a Senior Consultant at MPHI and Dr. Michael Arnold, a Director at Informing Change. As African American evaluators, we are keenly aware of the historical uses of evaluation as a means of control, oppression, and exclusion. But in our culturally responsive and equitable evaluation (CREE) practice, we walk a fine …

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Expanding the Bench™ Initiative Week: Culturally Responsive Evaluation Practice beyond “Hello” by Sharon Attipoe-Dorcoo & Norma Martínez-Rubin

Leave a Comment / Uncategorized / April 14, 2020 April 15, 2020

Hello! We are Sharon Attipoe-Dorcoo and Norma Martínez-Rubin, members of Expanding the Bench’s™ Advancing Culturally-responsive and Equitable (ACE) Evaluation Network. As evaluators, having a culturally responsive and equitable evaluation (CREE) orientation is analogous to creating engagement opportunities for community members once unwilling to seek, and participate in, conversations leading to decisions that will impact them. …

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