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NA Week: Sue Hamann on Including Intended Service Recipients in Needs Assessment and Program Planning

Hello, my name is Sue Hamann, and I work at the National Institutes of Health. Today I will share some tips about including intended service recipients in needs assessment and program planning. Lessons Learned: Although leading authorities recommend the inclusion of intended service recipients, that is, those persons who have a need to be met …

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Stan Capela on The Philosophical Evaluator

As an evaluator I am often confronted by questions that I often think about while taking the Staten Island Ferry at the end of the day. My name is Stan Capela and I am the VP for Quality Management and Corporate Compliance Officer for HeartShare Human Services. I am also the current AEA Government TIG …

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EdEval Week: Sheila Kohn and Chad Green on Cognitive Coaching

Hello! We are Sheila Robinson Kohn from Greece Central School District and University of Rochester in NY, and Chad Green, from Loudoun County Public Schools in northern VA. We’re program co-chairs for the PreK-12 Educational Evaluation TIG and we welcome you to our sponsored AEA365 week, in honor of Teacher Appreciation Week. We’d like to …

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Na’im, Blackmon, Ortiz, Nixon, Van Dyk, and Yanowitz on Positionality Matters: Understanding Culture and Context from the Perspective of Key Stakeholders

This post is brought to you by Alyssa Na’im of the National Science Foundation’s ITEST Learning Resource Center at the Education Development Center, and several members of the ITEST Community of Practice: Angelique Tucker Blackmon, Innovative Learning Concepts, LLC; Araceli M. Ortiz, Sustainable Future, Inc.; Carol Nixon, Edvantia, Inc.; Pam Van Dyk, Evaluation Resources, LLC; and Karen …

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Kylie Hutchinson on Group Facilitation

My name is Kylie Hutchinson. I am an independent evaluation consultant and trainer with Community Solutions Planning & Evaluation. I am also a regular facilitator of the Canadian Evaluation Society’s Essential Skills Series course. When I first started my evaluation practice, I was concerned that my statistical skills would be weak. Instead, I quickly learned …

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Stanley Capela on Using Kaizen for Program Improvement

As one from Brooklyn might say – “Yo! Seriously, Good Day!” For those who don’t subscribe to AEA’s listserv, Evaltalk, my name is Stanley Capela. I am the Vice President for Quality Management at HeartShare Human Services of New York, a 90 million dollar non-profit that provides children and family and developmental disabilities services for …

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DOVP Week: Gordon Bonham on the Benefits of Using Interviewers with Disabilities

Hello, I am Gordon Bonham, owner of Bonham Research, Cranberry Township, Pennsylvania. Measuring the quality of life of people with intellectual and other developmental disabilities (ID/DD) presents a number of challenges. Lessons Learned: Although it is generally assumed that self response is better than proxy response when people have the ability to respond for themselves, …

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Linda Meyer on Helping Clients Develop Goals and Objectives

My name is Linda Meyer and I am an applied developmental psychology graduate student at Claremont Graduate University. I am going to give you a few tips on helping clients develop goals and objectives that can help you plan an evaluation. Knowing programs’ goals and objectives is useful for creating logic models for evaluation, but …

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Jacquelyn Christensen on Wordle and Survey Anchors

My name is Jacquelyn Christensen and I am an Evaluation Associate at a non-profit mental health agency in Los Angeles, as well as an advanced graduate student in Applied Developmental Psychology at Claremont Graduate University. I work closely with my organization to report program outcomes and monitor service quality. When working directly with staff or …

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