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Visualizing Your Data: Google’s (free) Data Studio by David Fetterman

4 Comments / Data Visualization and Reporting / December 23, 2019

Hello! I’m David Fetterman, President & CEO, Fetterman & Associates, and past-president of the American Evaluation Association. The message is loud and clear. Stephanie Evergreen, Sheila Robinson, and a host of our esteemed data presentation infographics and data visualization rock stars have effectively communicated: visualizing your data is here to stay. It is useful as …

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Using the Google Search Engine to Find and Get Data: From Filetype to Public Data Explorer by David Fetterman

2 Comments / Data Visualization and Reporting / December 21, 2019

Hello! I’m David Fetterman, President & CEO, Fetterman & Associates. Did you know that you can use Google for more than your everyday topic searches? You can use it to find, access, and download data in formats that enable you to sort, analyze, and present in an effective manner. Filetype.  For example, you can find …

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Realizing The Diversity Of My 2019 Evaluation-Related Assignments by Sara Vaca

1 Comment / Independent Consulting, Uncategorized / December 21, 2019

Happy last days of the year! My name is Sara Vaca, frequent Saturday contributor to this blog, and looking back at 2019 I’ve again realized how amazing my job as independent consultant can be – and how diverse my assignments have been this year! Lesson Learned 1: Since I became a consultant in 2013, every …

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RoE TIG Week: Incorporating Research on Evaluation into your Evaluation Projects by Miriam Jacobson

1 Comment / Research on Evaluation / December 5, 2019

I am Miriam Jacobson and I am an evaluator at ICF, where I evaluate workforce development programs and programs for low-income families. As a member of the evaluation field, I am interested in studying best practices for conducting evaluation and helping our field learn how to become more effective. To do this, I have gathered …

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RoE TIG Week: Lessons from Research on Evaluation for/of System Change by Emily Gates and Francisca Fils-Aime

Leave a Comment / Research on Evaluation / December 5, 2019

Hi! I’m Emily Gates, an assistant professor of evaluation, and I’m Francisca Fils-Aime, graduate student, in the Measurement, Evaluation, Statistics, and Assessment department at Boston College. Interested in how evaluation can contribute to system change? Us too! This is a tough question for which there are no easy answers. But, we have a few lessons …

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RoE TIG Week: What Do Evaluators Mean by “Context?” by Sarah Mason

4 Comments / Research on Evaluation / December 5, 2019

Greetings from the Center for Research Evaluation! I am Sarah Mason—an Australian evaluator working in Mississippi—here to talk about contextually responsive evaluation. Like many evaluators, I’ve had regular conversations about the idea that context matters in evaluation. Context matters Context matters in our line of work because there’s no universal ‘right way’ to do an …

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RoE TIG Week: Evaluation Capacity Building Interventions & Sustainable Evaluation Practice: Research & Practice by Jay Wade

1 Comment / Research on Evaluation / December 5, 2019

Hello, AEA folks!  My name is Jay Wade, and I am the Evaluation Director of Planning, Implementation and Evaluation Org (PIE Org), a non-profit consultancy in Chicago, Illinois that specializes in evaluation capacity building (ECB).  I have worked with a colleague, Dr. Leanne Kallemeyn of Loyola University Chicago, to study whether and how ECB interventions …

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RoE TIG Week: The Influence of Gatekeeping in Evaluation by Travis R. Moore

1 Comment / Research on Evaluation / December 5, 2019

I am Travis R. Moore, a PhD Candidate in the Civil Society and Community Research program at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Lori Bakken is a professor in the Department of Civil Society and Community Studies at the UW-Madison and an Evaluation Specialist for the UW Division of Extension, and Luke Carmichael Valmadrid is an EQUITY-concentrated …

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RoE TIG Week: What is This Thing Called Theory Knitting? by Sebastian Lemire

2 Comments / Research on Evaluation / December 5, 2019

Hi fellow evaluators. I am Sebastian Lemire of Abt Associates, and I am kicking off the Research on Evaluation (RoE) AEA365 Blog Week on behalf of the RoE TIG Leadership. This week’s blogs will showcase current research on the methods, contexts, activities, effects, and best practices within evaluation. Each blog highlights implications for how we …

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2 Digital Trends to Follow in 2020 by Jessica Byrnes

2 Comments / Uncategorized / December 13, 2019

Hi, I’m Jessica Byrnes, and I’m a member of the AEA marketing team. Back in February, I wrote about a few up-and-coming digital trends to employ in your social media strategy – and I received some great feedback from that post! So, with 2019 quickly coming to a close, let’s set our sights on 2020: Keep …

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