The purpose of this blog is to offer my first impressions of the hot topics discussed in the sessions I attended at the 2022 conference in New Orleans. By way of background, I am Anand Desai, Senior Fellow at Clarivate and Professor of Public Policy Emeritus at the John Glenn College of Public Affairs, Ohio …
RTD TIG Week: Observations from Four Days at a Conference by Anand Desai Read More »
Greetings, evaluation friends! Elizabeth Grim here. Founder of Elizabeth Grim Consulting and Curator of AEA365. It’s conference season! This week, some readers may be traveling to New Orleans to gather with our fellow evaluators at the American Evaluation Association (AEA) conference, while others might be in Boston for the American Public Health Association (APHA) conference. …
Creating More Inclusive Conference Spaces by Elizabeth Grim Read More »
Greetings, AEA365 readers. Elizabeth DiLuzio here, Lead Curator for the blog. If you’ve somehow missed the excitement, let me be the first to tell you: AEA’s first in-person conference since the pandemic began is kicking off tomorrow! The week opens with two and a half days of pre-conference workshops. Then, on Wednesday, the conference officially …
Conference Week Has Arrived! by Elizabeth DiLuzio Read More »
Happy conference week! I’m Elizabeth DiLuzio, lead curator of AEA365. Couldn’t make it to the AEA conference this year but would still like to connect with and learn from the community? The Twitterverse has got you. While nothing is comparable to attending yourself, there’s a mighty cadre of live Tweeters who share their favorite quotes, …
Twitter’s Conference Takeaways by Elizabeth DiLuzio Read More »
Happy conference week! I’m Elizabeth DiLuzio, lead curator for AEA365. Today, let’s talk about ways to get the most out of a conference. Go broad – Identify a few topics you would like to learn more about. These could be methods you’ve heard evaluators mention that piqued your curiosity, topics you’ve read about in AEA365 …
Tips for Navigating a Virtual Conference by Elizabeth DiLuzio Read More »
Greetings! I’m Sheila B Robinson, aea365 Leader Curator and sometimes Saturday contributor with tips for tackling conference proposals. Lesson Learned: Acceptance is not a sure thing. Just because you’ve written a good paper, have a skill to demonstrate that others want to learn, or have stellar results from an innovative evaluation, you must be able …
Ten Tips for Top Notch Conference Proposals by Sheila B. Robinson Read More »
Hi AEA! My name is Elizabeth DiLuzio, volunteer curator for AEA365, internal evaluator at Good Shepherd Services, and instructor of Quantitative Methods in Evaluation at New York University. Whether AEA’s is the first or one hundredth conference you’ve attended, turning the people you meet into colleagues and friends can be a challenge. Here are some tips …
Tips on Following Up After a (Virtual) Conference by Elizabeth DiLuzio Read More »
Hi, I’m Eric Einspruch, an AEA member since 1991, one of the founders of the Oregon Program Evaluators Network (OPEN), and a past President of OPEN. I am the Principal of ELE Consulting, LLC, which provides research and evaluation services that balance rigor and real-world constraints to generate meaningful and actionable results, and provides training …
Oregon Evaluators Week: Be Inspired at the AEA Annual Conference by Eric Einspruch Read More »
My name is Leanne Kallemeyn, and I am currently a member of the AEA Guiding Principles Working Group. As we get ready for the 2020 virtual AEA conference, I want to address a change that was planned prior to the COVID-19 pandemic. If you submitted a proposal, you may recall that you were asked to …
Getting Ready for the Conference with the AEA Guiding Principles by Leanne Kallemeyn Read More »
Hi! I am Kelly McGinn, Assistant Professor of Human Development and Community Engagement (HDCE) at Temple University in Philadelphia, PA. As a recipient of the Sage Early Career Excellence in Teaching Evaluation Award, I reflected on how the conference presentations were able to inform my teaching. AEA stresses the importance of incorporating the evaluator competences into one’s teaching …
