I’m Ryan Watkins and I am a professor at George Washington University Among other things, I maintain the needs assessment website www.needsassessment.org – which collects many needs assessment resources for you.
In 2005, The Alliance for Regional Collaboration to Heighten Educational Success (ARCHES) was established in California as a statewide voluntary confederation of regional collaboratives. Over the years, it provided technical assistance to alliance members. In 2016, ARCHES decided to refocus its services. Sharon Twitty (Executive Director, ARCHES) and I have worked to respond to this new charge by helping to develop evaluation products and systems that support the work of the Regional Intersegmental Collaboratives.
I am Lydiane Mbia Independent Research and Evaluation Consultant focusing on integrating technology into evaluation methodologies, and Board member of AGDEN. As a young and emerging evaluator working within intergenerational evaluation teams at SWEO and UNICEF within the past three years have shaped my evaluative thinking and perspectives on using Artificial Intelligence (AI) in evaluating …
My name is Seda Kojoyan and I am an Evaluation Specialist at UN FAO. The purpose of the blog post is to discuss a sample methodological approach for synthesizing and mapping evaluations/data against common markers, such as the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) targets and indicators. As examples, I will discuss two distinct methods used for …
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My name is Jennifer Latham and I am the Evaluator for Rhode Island’s Health Equity Zone (HEZ) Initiative and a graduate student at Brown University. Working with the HEZ, I have gained a mindset for evaluation that aligns with a community-led, place-based vision of health equity. I truly enjoy the evaluative challenge of my role …
Hey there! I’m Paisley Worthington, a doctoral candidate studying program evaluation at Queen’s University (Kingston, Canada). Today’s post is about research on evaluation that digs into how the Collaborative Approaches to Evaluation (CAE) principles can be used to foster high levels of participation and co-creation in an online environment. This project was led by myself, …
My name is Mika Yoder Yamashita. I am the qualitative evaluation lead for the Center for Educational Policy and Practice at Academy for Educational Development. Our Center has been conducting process and outcome evaluations of the federally funded program, Gaining Early Awareness and Readiness for Undergraduate Programs (GEAR UP). This program aims at increasing college access among disadvantaged students. As we are evaluating programs implemented in several sites, we are beginning to explore the possibility of conducting a multi-site evaluation. Today I will share my Center’s thoughts on how we can effectively approach conducting a multi-site evaluation that uses qualitative data to understand the process of program implementation. Then I will share how we use the literature to guide our data collection and analysis.
Hey everyone! I’m Greta Landis (she / her), an Evaluation Specialist based in Teejop (Madison, Wisconsin) at the Natural Resources Institute at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and Program Co-Chair of the Environmental Program Evaluation TIG. My work is informed by Dr. Michael Quinn Patton’s ‘principles-focused evaluation’ approach, which provides a set of strategies to develop …
I’m Maryfrances Porter, Ph.D., CEO and Founder of Partnerships for Strategic Impact and developer of the ImpactStory Strategy, a straightforward, sustainable structure for nonprofit storytelling. For 20+ years I have worked with small- to medium-sized nonprofits (~$500K – $3M) – and their funders – to tell powerful impact stories that move people to action. There …
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.
