I am Leah Christina Neubauer with DePaul University’s MPH Program. I serve as President of the Chicagoland Evaluation Association (CEA). This post highlights my paper in the LA RED network’s AEA 2014 session (#1439): Visionary Evaluation for Building Sustainable Cultural Responsive Evaluation Practices for Latino/a Communities. From my paper, Lessons from Little Village, Public Health …
Evaluation 2014 was my first experience attending AEA’s annual conference, and the event introduced me to many outstanding evaluation professionals and organizations on twitter. Today I want to give a shout out to a few individuals and organizations that were very active throughout the conference, and are truly must-follows when it comes to finding the …
Jayne Corso on Evaluation Professionals and Organizations to Follow on Twitter Read More »
My name is Rachel Becker-Klein and I am an evaluator and a Community Psychologist with almost a decade of experience evaluating programs. Since 2005, I have worked withPEER Associates, an evaluation firm that provides customized, utilization-focused program evaluation and educational research services for organizations nationwide. Recently I have been used an interview and analysis methodology …
Hello! I’m Tony Fujs, Director of Evaluation at the Latin American Youth Center, a DC based non-profit organization. Today, I want to share my experience using R and ggplot2 for data visualization. Ggplot2 is a great tool from the R toolbox (a package, in R lingo). It relies on the powerful Grammar of Graphics framework, …
DVR TIG Week: Tony Fujs on Dataviz with the Grammar of Graphics: R you Ready? Read More »
Hello, my name is Dan McDonnell and I am a Community Manager for the American Evaluation Association. In my last Saturday post, I introduced a Twitter measurement and analytics tool called Twitonomy and a few of the basic features available. While you can certainly pull some great data and interesting stats with the free version, the …
Dan McDonnell on Even More Ways to Analyze Tweets with Twitonomy Read More »
Hello! My name is Anna Williams. I have worked on issues related to sustainable development as an evaluator, facilitator, and agent of change for 20+ years. The concept of sustainable development took hold 25 years ago, but several challenges have hampered interpretation and analysis of progress, starting with these: 1. The oft-cited 1987 Brundtland Commission …
EPE TIG Week: Anna Williams on A Welcome New Paradigm for Sustainable Development Read More »
Hello evaluation world! We are Kat Athanasiades and Veena Pankaj from Innovation Network. This might sound familiar: you are given hundreds of pages of grant documents to make sense of. You are left wondering, “Where do I start?” We were recently tasked with guiding evaluation for a funder’s national advocacy campaign, and had to make …
Hello everyone! This is Chelsey Leruth, an internal evaluator at Access Community Health Network in Chicago. I am currently wrapping up the analysis for a phone survey of participants in one of our maternal and child health programs, Westside Healthy Start. Today, I would like to share some tips and lessons learned during the survey …
CEA Affiliate Week: Chelsey Leruth on Nuts and Bolts of Telephone Survey Administration Read More »
Hi! My name is Mike Matarasso and I’m responsible for leading the design, testing and global roll out of a Monitoring and Evaluation / Information Communication Technology (M&E/ICT) platform for Catholic Relief Services (CRS). The platform will help us gather timely and high quality data to track performance across the agency, to inform change at …
Hello! We’re Barbara Szijarto and Kate Svensson, graduate students at the University of Ottawa. We’re involved in a Government of Canada funded knowledge mobilization project called ‘Engagement: Mobilizing Community Involvement’ through the Centre for Research in Educational and Community Services (CRECS). Our role is to aid in the evaluation of the initiative. Evaluating a knowledge …
GSNE Week: Kate Svensson and Barbara Szijarto on Evaluating Knowledge Mobilization Read More »
