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Quick Reference Guides Evaluators Can’t Live Without by Kelly Robertson

3 Comments / Uncategorized / April 13, 2020

My name is Kelly Robertson, and I work at The Evaluation Center at Western Michigan University and EvaluATE, the National Science Foundation–funded evaluation hub for Advanced Technological Education. I’m a huge fan of quick reference guides. Quick reference guides are brief summaries of important content that can be used to improve practice in real time. …

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MSI Fellowship Week: Three Lessons Learned in Teaching Evaluation and Policy Research by Tao Gong

1 Comment / Teaching of Evaluation / March 15, 2020

My name is Tao Gong and I’m an Associate Professor in the Department of Social Sciences at the University of Maryland Eastern Shore. I’m the 2019-2020 Minority Serving Institution Fellow. I’ve been teaching Evaluation and Policy Research including topics such as evaluation basics, types of evaluation research, evaluation designs and methodology such as quantitative, qualitative, …

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Visionary Evaluation Week: Being a Visionary Evaluative in the Health Field by Jeanne Ayers

Leave a Comment / Health Evaluation, Uncategorized / February 8, 2020

I’m Jeanne Ayers, author of Health: Building Our Power to Create Health Equity, in the new book, Visionary Evaluation for a Sustainable, Equitable Future. In my day job, I’m the State Health Officer, Division of Public Health for Wisconsin. Public health is what we do collectively to assure the conditions in which we can all …

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AaEA Week: Building Evaluation Pro Bono in the Atlanta Community by Charlotte Newman and Lauren Reef

Leave a Comment / Uncategorized / December 28, 2019

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 …

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R Week: How We Moved Our Entire Team to R by Ava Elliott

Leave a Comment / Quantitative Methods: Theory and Design / November 4, 2019

Hi, I’m Ava Elliott, Senior Research Assistant at Public Profit, an evaluation and strategy consulting firm located in Oakland, California. Last year, we decided to hang up our SPSS hat and take the leap to R. It was not an easy decision to make. Being consultants, we need to be able to work quickly and …

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R Week: Introduction – How R has Transformed Our Work by This Week’s Authors

Leave a Comment / Quantitative Methods: Theory and Design / October 31, 2019

Hello, we are David Keyes, Eric Einspruch, Tom McKlin, Ava Elliott, and Dana Wanzer. We are a group of evaluators who have come to embrace the power of R. Throughout this week, we look forward to sharing some of the benefits of this incredibly powerful software (that also happens to be free!). To start things …

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CD TIG Week: Evaluation in Partnership with Communities by Audrey Jordan and Tom Kelly

Leave a Comment / Community Development / August 16, 2019

We are Audrey Jordan (evaluation consultant and executive life coach in Southern California at  audreyjordan2012@gmail.com) and Tom Kelly (VP Knowledge, Evaluation & Learning at Hawai‘i Community Foundation at tkelly@hcf-hawaii.org) and we used to work together helping create local learning partnerships of evaluators and community residents in cities across the US as part of a 10-year, …

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APC TIG Week: Using Twitter to Track Narrative Change for Policy Advocacy Efforts by Laura Pryor & Heather Lewis-Charp

Leave a Comment / Advocacy and Policy Change / June 10, 2019

We are Heather Lewis-Charp and Laura Pryor, researchers at SPR, an evaluation firm located in Oakland, California. Within the advocacy field, framing is often key to winning in the court of public opinion. Phrases that capture the influence of complex issues on people’s lives have a powerful effect on how individuals and policy makers understand …

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CP TIG Week: Mentor Me by Ann Price

Community Psychology / June 7, 2019

Hello fellow evaluators! My name is Ann Price and I am President of Community Evaluation Solutions (CES), based in Georgia. This year’s conference theme, Paths to the Future of Evaluation: Contribution, Leadership, Renewal resonates with me. I am often called upon to speak with evaluation classes and frequently meet with evaluators considering consulting as a …

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