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DVR TIG Week: Ann K. Emery and Stephanie Evergreen on the Data Visualization Checklist

2 Comments / Data Visualization and Reporting / June 23, 2014

Hey friends! We are Ann Emery, Co-Chair of the DVRTIG, and Stephanie Evergreen, Founder of the DVRTIG – two evaluators who are crazy about data visualization. “I love your examples, but how do I know what I should do next time I’m creating a graph?” We heard comments like this when we talked with evaluators about …

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Susan Kistler on Winning a Copy of The Checklist Manifesto

16 Comments / Uncategorized / September 25, 2011

My name is Susan Kistler. I serve as the American Evaluation Association’s Executive Director and I provide each Saturday’s post for aea365. Rad Resource: This week, I am reading Atul Gawande’s The Checklist Manifesto: How to Get Things Right. It is a paean to monitoring if not evaluation. Gawande weaves a tale of how checklists …

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GOV TIG Week: Nicole Vicinanza on Using Checklists to Review Evaluations for Compliance with Federal Requirements

Leave a Comment / Government Evaluation / September 1, 2011

Hi, my name is Nicole Vicinanza. I am a member of the Government Evaluation TIG and a Senior Research Associate with JBS International. In my work with JBS I conduct and review evaluations, and provide technical assistance in evaluation for federally funded programs. Many of these have federal regulations or guidance regarding evaluation with which …

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Amy Germuth on reports and checklists

4 Comments / Evaluation Use / May 2, 2010

My name is Amy A. Germuth, President of EvalWorks, LLC (http://EvalWorks.com) and owner/blogger at EvalThoughts.com. I’ve worked over the last year on improving my evaluation reports to better meet my client’s needs and have a few great resources to help you do the same. Rad Resource: “Unlearning Some of our Social Scientist Habits” by Jane …

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OL-ECB TIG Week: Using a culture of learning models to build organization-wide evaluation capacity by Arin Ahlum Hanson, Kristen Gardner-Volle, and Laura Pinsoneault

Leave a Comment / Organizational Learning and Evaluation Capacity Building / April 2, 2024

Hello! We are Arin Ahlum Hanson, former Director of Outreach at Living Beyond Breast Cancer, and Kristen Gardner-Volle and Laura Pinsoneault, of Evaluation Plus. In 2022, Living Beyond Breast Cancer (LBBC) and Evaluation Plus (E+) partnered to build evaluation capacity across all levels of staff rather than through one centralized evaluation role. While our project’s …

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Case Collaborative Week: Reflective Practice for Teaching and Learning with Cases by David Ensminger and Tiffany Tovey

Leave a Comment / Case Collaborative / November 21, 2023

Hi, I’m Kim Norris, Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning (MEL) Director for American Institutes for Research (AIR)’s International Development Division. Part of my role is to lead a MEL practice. As part of our initial strategy, our practice team determined to focus on localizing our work. For us this means we seek out ways to increase local partnering and leadership in and around MEL efforts – from business development to MEL direction and execution. This involves local team leadership, capacity strengthening and engagement on local terms.

Case Collaborative Week: What does research about teaching with cases tell us? by Bianca Montrosse-Moorhead

Leave a Comment / Case Collaborative / November 21, 2023

Hello! I am Bianca Montrosse-Moorhead, an Associate Professor at the University of Connecticut and a member of the Case Collaborative. I know from personal experience how powerful cases can be for building others’ capacity, be it in the evaluations I do or the evaluation classes I teach. I am excited to share a brief summary …

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The Evaluation Center at WMU Week: Developing Evaluation Elearning: Our Journey and Lessons Learned by Kelly Robertson and Lori Wingate

1 Comment / Uncategorized / December 1, 2023

Hello, we are Kelly Robertson and Lori Wingate. We work at The Evaluation Center at Western Michigan University. We’re here to tell you about our journey into new territory – developing elearning – and our lessons learned along the way. Valeo is The Evaluation Center’s new evaluation elearning program. We worked to combine evaluation theory, …

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The Evaluation Center at WMU Week: Celebrating The Evaluation Center’s 50 Years at Western Michigan University by Lori Wingate

Leave a Comment / Uncategorized / November 27, 2023

Hello! I’m Lori Wingate, the executive director of The Evaluation Center at Western Michigan University (WMU). This week of AEA365 celebrates The Evaluation Center’s 50 years at WMU. In this blog, I share a bit of the center’s history and factors I believe have contributed to our success and sustainability, mainly for the benefit of …

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