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Reflections of an Evaluator during Pinktober by Beverly Peters

I have been writing this blog post in my head for three years. The topic balances my professional and personal lives, taking me out of my comfort zone. I have come to the realization that it is time to put pen to paper.

I am Dr. Beverly Peters and I write this post today, not as a faculty member in American University’s Measurement and Evaluation Program, but as a woman personally affected by breast cancer. My experiences the past three years provide Lessons Learned and Hot Tips.

MSI Fellowship Week: Evaluation as Counter-hegemony when Chicano Studies Isn’t an Option by Rick Sperling

My name is Rick Sperling, and I am the Program Director for an undergraduate academic certificate program in Community-based Assessment and Evaluation (CBAE) at St. Mary’s University in San Antonio, Texas. I have other roles, but that is the one I am writing about today. To be honest, the main reason I got into this …

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RoE TIG Week with EvaluATE: Finding Out How Programs Actually Use Evaluation by Michael Harnar and Zach Tilton

Hi, we are Michael Harnar and Zach Tilton, Co-Principal Investigator on the EvaluATE grant and Doctoral Research Associate, respectively. Our research-on-evaluation (RoE) study investigates evaluation use in NSF’s Advanced Technological Education (ATE) program. ATE grantees spend an average of 8 percent of their grant budgets on evaluation—almost $5 million annually. With so much evidence of …

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RoE TIG Week with EvaluATE: Funding Your Research on Evaluation Initiatives by Megan Zelinsky and Lyssa Wilson Becho

Hello! We are Megan and Lyssa from EvaluATE, the evaluation hub for the National Science Foundation’s (NSF’s) Advanced Technological Education (ATE) program. NSF’s ATE program aims to promote the development of innovative programs for the education of technicians in the high-technology fields. EvaluATE enhances evaluation capacity in the ATE community, including among project staff, evaluators, …

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Tell Them What You Will Tell Them, Tell Them, Tell Them What You Told Them…(Part 2) by Kavita Mittapalli

Hello, AEA365 community! Liz DiLuzio here, Lead Curator of the blog. This week is Individuals Week, which means we take a break from our themed weeks and spotlight the Hot Tips, Cool Tricks, Rad Resources and Lessons Learned from any evaluator interested in sharing. Would you like to contribute to future individuals weeks? Email me …

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Social Work TIG Week: The Health Stigma and Discrimination Framework: A Qualitative Evaluation Example by Djosy Charles, Leon Moraes, and Lisa Melchior

Hi, we are Djosy Charles, Leon Moraes, and Lisa Melchior from The Measurement Group LLC, a consulting firm focused on evaluating health, behavioral health, and social services for at-risk and vulnerable populations. We would like to share some thoughts about the Health Stigma and Discrimination Framework, which we recently found useful in the context of …

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The Ten Commandments for Evaluation Research Assistants (Part II) by Arena Lam & Anthony Petrosino

We are Arena Lam (Research Associate) and Anthony Petrosino (Director) from WestEd’s Justice & Prevention Research Center (JPRC). Our organization conducts evaluations and employs many research assistants. We’re often asked by prospective job candidates or newly hired folks what the most important qualities are in successful assistants. This is Part II of a 2-part series …

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Seven tips to decolonize your MEL practice, by Sabine Topolansky and JulieAnn Sickell

We are Sabine Topolansky and JulieAnn Sickell, monitoring, evaluation, and learning (MEL) professionals with the International Republican Institute (IRI), a non-partisan, non-profit organization dedicated to advancing democracy and governance worldwide. Though not experts on decolonizing evaluation, we recently reflected on our practices and identified 7 Hot Tips to decolonize MEL:   Hot Tips: Acknowledge MEL’s …

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MSI Fellowship Week: The importance and value of self-reflection by Arthur Hernandez

My name is Arthur Hernández, and I am a Professor at the University of the Incarnate Word in San Antonio Texas. Even before I knew it, I was an evaluator (albeit not a very good one!) considering my process and consequences related to my teaching, research/evaluation, and service. Now mostly, I’m interested in the means and mechanisms …

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