Greetings! I am Beverly Peters, an assistant professor of Measurement and Evaluation at American University. I have over 25 years of experience teaching, researching, and evaluating community development and governance projects, mainly in southern Africa. I have spent the bulk of my career using qualitative methods to evaluate projects; and write a blog for American University …
Interviews: The Right Tool for Me? by Beverly Peters Read More »
Hi again! I’m Leigh M. Tolley, Chair of the PreK-12 Educational Evaluation Topical Interest Group (TIG) and Assistant Professor, Secondary Education at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette (UL Lafayette). As a former high school English teacher, I consider myself very fortunate to work with preservice and inservice teachers in their learning and professional development. …
Hi, we are Charlotte Newman and Lauren Reef. We are co-chairs of the Atlanta-area Evaluation Association (AaEA) pro bono committee. AaEA provides free evaluation consulting to local nonprofits through a three-month Evaluation Support Program (ESP). The ESP was created to increase evaluation awareness and capacity across the community by: 1) enabling new and experienced evaluators …
Hi, my name is Rhodri Dierst-Davies, an evaluation specialist with Deloitte Consulting LLP working out of our Government & Public Services (GPS) practice. I am also the Program Chair of the Military and Veteran Evaluation (MVE) Topical Interest Group (TIG). This TIG was founded to raise awareness and promote greater use of AEA guiding principles …
Howdy, 365ers! My name is LaShaune P. Johnson, I am faculty at Creighton University and the founder of Estella Lucia Evaluation, LLC. I have a passion for health promotion, particularly among families of color. I have been a researcher and evaluator for projects on African American breast cancer, childhood obesity, adolescent sexual health, and Muslim …
CP TIG Week: About Evaluating Health Promotion Efforts by LaShaune P. Johnson Read More »
Hello! This is Tiberio Garza, an Assistant Professor and Associate Director for the Center of Research, Evaluation, and Assessment (CREA) at the University of Nevada Las Vegas. Translating cultural responsive theory to evaluation practice is not always an easy task. The biggest struggles we see reported in the literature central around five areas: a) working …
Hi, I’m Deborah Good, Director of Organizational Learning and Research for a nonprofit called Future Focused Education. Our organization works toward individual and system changes, always with an eye toward our city’s most vulnerable young people. We run a paid internship program for high school students, support a network of innovative schools, elevate student voices, …
NME Week: “View From Inside”: A Brief Guidebook to Internal Evaluation by Deborah Good Read More »
Howdy, fellow evaluators! We are Morgan Buras-Finlay and Eric Barela, Salesforce.Org’s Measurement & Evaluation team. In our post today, we will share what we’ve learned through our experience working in and providing support to the nonprofit sector, especially direct service and education organizations. In our experience, organizational data quality is most often a reflection of …
Hello! I’m Pierce Gordon, recent Ph.D. grad and independent innovation and evaluation consultant. I’ve been researching the evaluation approaches for the Botswana Innovation System for two years, and I thought my methods and insights would be uniquely useful to the AEA community. Recently, innovation has become the topic du jour for development practice, and Botswana’s …
Hi, I’m Sue Hoechstetter, lead developer and keeper of advocacy capacity assessment tools at Alliance for Justice’s Bolder Advocacy program. I want to share with you about a new project to investigate and use advocates’ experiences to help evaluators, advocates, and funders better assess nonprofits’ efforts to “speak their truths” to policy decision-makers. In these …
