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CP TIG Week: Julianne Manchester on Evaluability Assessment in the Health Professions

6 Comments / Community Psychology / March 22, 2014

My name is Julianne Manchester, Co-Program Chair for the Community Psychology TIG and the PI at Case Western Reserve University- School of Medicine for an evaluation capacity building initiative with health professionals planning educational programs.  I am pleased to be discussing Evaluability Assessment in this kick-off blog post for AEA365. What is Evaluability Assessment (EA)? …

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Teaching Tips Week: Helen Holmquist-Johnson on Teaching Evaluability Assessment

Leave a Comment / Teaching of Evaluation / September 2, 2011

My name is Helen Holmquist-Johnson and I teach a course in program evaluation to Master’s of Social Work students. This tip is on the facilitation of an evaluability assessment – a pre-evaluation tool. Hot Tip: The evaluability assessment has been likened to grooming the slopes before skiing which is a fitting metaphor to use with …

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Nicola Dawkins on Evaluability Assessment and Systematic Screening Assessment

Leave a Comment / Uncategorized / June 4, 2010

My name is Nicola Dawkins, and I am a Principal with ICF Macro. As an international evaluation, research, and management consulting firm, our work focuses on assessing and strengthening health and other social programs and policies for an array of governmental clients. As evaluators, I know we are acutely familiar with the limited resources generally …

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ICCE TIG Week: Evaluating Sustainability: How Do We Measure Up? by Jindra Cekan/ova

Leave a Comment / International and Cross-cultural Evaluation / May 1, 2022

Welcome to sustainability! I’m Jindra Cekan/ova, 30+ years in global development, founder of Valuing Voices, Sustainable Solutions for Excellent Impact. There is a compelling need to prove international projects and programs are as sustainable and long-term as we promise.  However, evaluators of foreign aid during project implementation have a very limited set of tools with …

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Indiana Evaluation Association Week: Asking a Return on Investment Question? by Jacqueline Singh

Leave a Comment / Indiana Evaluation Association Affiliate / February 1, 2022

Hello! My name is Jacqueline Singh, MPP, PhD, Executive Evaluation & Program Design Advisor at Qualitative Advantage, LLC. I’m a long-time member of Indiana Evaluation Association. I served as IEA Director at Large, Policy Committee Chair and continue to contribute to the IEA Program Committee.   Throughout my career I’ve held positions as an evaluator, researcher, and policy …

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DEME TIG Week: Lessons Learned from Evolving Evaluation Practice in the Evaluation of Humanitarian Action by Minji Cho, Ann Marie Castleman and Scott Chaplowe

Leave a Comment / Disaster and Emergency Management Evaluation / November 26, 2021

Hi, we are Minji Cho and Ann Marie Castleman, independent evaluation consultants and PhD students studying evaluation at Claremont Graduate University, and Scott Chaplowe, evaluation, strategy and capacity development specialist. We recently collaborated on a project with the Active Learning Network for Accountability and Performance (ALNAP) to understand past, present, and future challenges in the …

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Program Design TIG Week: The Power of Document Models in Program Design by Jacqueline Singh

Leave a Comment / Program Design / November 14, 2020

Hello! My name is Jacqueline Singh, MPP, PhD., Executive Advisor Evaluation and Program Design at Qualitative Advantage, LLC. I’m also Co-chair of the AEA Program Design TIG and Board Member at Large, Policy Committee Chair for Indiana Evaluation Association. Over the years, I’ve learned that program implementors and decision makers are incentivized to advance well …

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Program Design TIG Week: What is a program? by Catherine Nameth & Jacqueline Singh

Leave a Comment / Program Design / November 14, 2020

Hello! It’s a pleasure to introduce this week’s series hosted by the Program Design TIG. We are Catherine Nameth, PhD (Program Chair) and Jacqueline Singh, PhD (TIG Co-Chair). In addition to serving in our AEA leadership roles, we meet regularly to talk about program design in our work contexts (higher education and consultancy) and other fields. What …

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A Look at Language Week: It’s Time to Move Away From Opaque Evaluation Concepts by Melissa Chapman Haynes

3 Comments / Uncategorized / June 23, 2019

I’m Melissa Chapman Haynes, Director of Evaluation at Professional Data Analysts and adjunct at the University of Minnesota. Each spring I teach an Evaluation Internship course to graduate students from various sectors. And each spring this is the one time that I utter a couple of words that make me cringe. I use these words …

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NA TIG Week: Using a Logic Model Framework to Plan an Evaluation by Sue Hamann

Leave a Comment / Needs Assessment / June 15, 2019

I’m Sue Hamann and have worked as an Evaluator for almost 40 years and am currently employed at the National Institutes of Health as a Health Scientist and Science Evaluation Officer. Many people new to evaluation are assigned to work as evaluators. My tips today are for those novice evaluators who need some help getting …

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