My name is Scott Chaplowe and I’ve been a member of the AEA since 2002, currently serve on AEA’s International Working Group, and I am the Coordinator of the Transformational Evaluation Working Group in the International Evaluation Academy, (IEA). I often get asked what is transformational evaluation? It is not a specific approach or methodology …
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 …
Welcome to The Chicagoland Evaluation Association Week on AEA365! This week’s postings reflect the diversity of our Local Affiliate members and their work, using a lens of cultural responsiveness evaluation with various types of communities. We are excited to share some of our projects along with lessons learned, hot tips, and rad resources from our …
Hello everyone. I’m Miranda Lee, and I am a project manager here at the Evaluation Center at Western Michigan University. My colleague Michael Maranda and I would like to talk to you about conducting evaluations of programs when the client agency has requirements to use evidence-based interventions (EBIs). Major issues The first thing to know …
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Hello, I am Jaideep Visave, part of a team of passionate evaluators who are concerned about our planet. If you are interested in evaluating the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to combat climate change problems, then this blogpost is for you. Our team is led by Scott Chaplowe and Adam Hejnowicz. Through “Transformations Conference 2021: Enabling …
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I’m Tamara Young, an associate professor in Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis at North Carolina State University. Today, I’m sharing a heuristic I use with students to help them generate a comprehensive list of potential areas of focus for an implementation evaluation (of course, with the understanding that stakeholders, preferable primary intended users, ultimately select the focus). …
Hello! We are Maddy Frey (she/her) and Libby Smith (she/they), two evaluators who discovered our shared commitment to racial justice through a book club focused on anti-racist evaluation work in early 2020 led by Libby and Rita Fierro. This post is written for white evaluators, knowing that people who hold power based on many socially …
Hello! We are Drs. Yvette Clinton and Sharika Bhattacharya from ICF and we partner with Young Audiences of Louisiana (YALA) to evaluate their arts-integrated professional development programs implemented in Louisiana schools. These programs seek to increase teachers’ knowledge and capacity for arts-integrated instruction to positively impact student outcomes. As part of our formative and summative …
My name is Lisa Raphael, and I am an independent consultant. Until recently, much of my work has not explicitly considered trauma in the evaluation process. This is partly due to the fact that most education funding is tied to academic achievement and ignores other more holistic aspects of healthy child development.My own narrative has …
(Spanish version) Hello! We are Jessica Saucedo and Tatiana Elisa Bustos, PhD students studying community psychology with interests in health equity research, implementation science, and equitable evaluation with Indigenous and Latinx communities. We wanted to share our experiences completing community-engaged evaluation internships in the context of first-generation doctoral students and in relation to engaging marginalized …
