We are Eden Kyse and Erin Bunger Johnson, Director and Associate Director of the Center for Research and Evaluation on Education and Human Services (CREEHS) at Montclair State University.
Hi, I’m Rachael Jenison (MFA/MPA) and am currently serving as an AmeriCorps Member at the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, a mayoral agency that oversees the distribution of city funds to arts and culture organizations. My focus there is on evaluation of equity-based reforms to the grant-making process. Prior to serving at DCLA, …
Yá’át’ééh (hello) fellow evaluators! I am Alexandria Jauregui-Dusseau (Diné and Mexican), DHSc, AEA Indigenous Peoples in Evaluation Program Co-Chair, and Evaluation Specialist at the Center for Community Engaged Evaluation in the Community Health and Research Department of the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences. Much like my learning about my own culture and traditional customs, …
IPE TIG Week: Getting Started in Indigenous Evaluation by Alexandria Jauregui-Dusseau Read More »
Please Note: This post was originally published during last year’s LGBT TIG Week. Hello! We’re Michael Petillo (he/they) with CES Partnership, LLC, and Rory Neuner (she/her) with the Barr Foundation. In today’s Pride Week post, we’re excited to explore what an anti-oppression evaluation practice means, and how it can empower LGBTQ2S people (among others, too!). Anti-Oppression & LGBTQ2S Oppression is …
Hello! I’m Dawn Pauls, a program evaluator living in Saint Paul, MN. This blog post is adapted from my final paper in a recent course in International Development Program Evaluation at the University of Minnesota. Designing innovative evaluation methods for determining to what extent the world’s most vulnerable children are assured of their human rights could help …
ICCE TIG Week: Ensuring Child Rights in Program Evaluation by Dawn Pauls Read More »
Hello, AEA365 community! Liz DiLuzio here, Lead Curator of the blog. This week is Individuals Week, which means we take a break from our themed weeks and spotlight the Hot Tips, Cool Tricks, Rad Resources and Lessons Learned from any evaluator interested in sharing. Would you like to contribute to future individuals weeks? Email me …
Evaluator Self-Reflection to Identify Values and Principle by Evan Poncelet Read More »
My name is Diane Hirshberg. I am the director of the Institute of Social and Economic Research at the University of Alaska Anchorage. I am writing today from my home on the ancestral and unceded traditional lands of the Eklutna Dena’ina people. In Alaska, as in many places, there is a robust discussion among researchers …
My name is Bob Williams. I’ve been involved in the systems field since the mid-1970s. Over the past forty years I’ve learned to distinguish between three different approaches to systemic practice: Observing systems Thinking systemically Being systemic These differences have major implications for evaluation. First, the distinction between observing systems and thinking systemically. In an …
We are Mat Walton, Emily Gates, and Pablo Vidueira. Mat is the Technical Lead in the Social Systems Team at the Institute of Environmental Science and Research (ESR) in New Zealand. Emily is an assistant professor at Boston College who conducts evaluations of educational and health interventions and researches systems thinking, values, and equity in …
Hello! Our names are Alejandro Imbach and Mine Pabari. We are independent evaluation consultants, focused on participatory, learning and utilisation evaluation. Mine is a member of the International Evaluation Academy (IEAc). Recently, we conducted evaluations for two large scale programmes which involved multiple countries across Africa, Asia, Europe and Latin America. Both programmes focused on …
