This is John Fischetti, Dean of Education/Head of School, at the University of Newcastle in Australia. We are one of Australia’s largest providers of new teachers and postgraduate degrees for current educators. We are committed to equity and social justice as pillars of practice, particularly in evaluation and assessment. Hot Tips: We are in a climate …
Hi Colleagues! We are Antonella Guidoccio, Mohamed Rage, and Qudratullah Jahid and we coordinate Task Force 2 charged with developing a mentoring program for Young and Emerging Evaluators (YEEs). We want to share our experience of how to design a mentoring program in a collaborative and inclusive way. We started by conducting a needs and …
This is John LaVelle, Louisiana State University, and Yuanjing Wilcox, EDucation EValuation EXchange, members of AEA’s Competencies Task Force. Task Force members recently shared the 2/24/16 draft AEA evaluator competencies in five domains: professional, methodology, context, management, and interpersonal. Feedback in coming months will enable us to finalize the set in preparation for two very …
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Greetings, and welcome to a week’s worth of insights sponsored by the Design and Analysis of Experiments TIG! We are Laura Peck and Steve Bell, program evaluators with Abt Associates. When deciding how to invest in social programs, policymakers and program managers increasingly ask for evidence of effectiveness. A strong method for measuring a program’s …
We are Wanda Casillas and Heather Evanson, and we are part of Deloitte Consulting LLP’s Program Evaluation Center of Excellence (PE CoE). Many of our team members and colleagues are privileged to work with a variety of federal agencies on program evaluation and performance measurement and, throughout this week, will share some of their lessons …
My name is Sally Bond. I am an independent evaluation consultant based in Pittsboro, NC and chair of the Organizational Learning & Evaluation Capacity Building (OL-ECB) TIG. In the fall of 2012, after 24 years in evaluation and 16 years doing ECB work, I went back to school to learn more about training and development …
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This is part of a two-week series honoring our living evaluation pioneers in conjunction with Labor Day in the USA (September 5). ¡Saludos! I am Grisel M. Robles-Schrader, of the Center for Community Health at Northwestern University and Robles-Schrader Consulting, Chicago, IL. LA RED TIG is highlighting Latinx evaluators that inform the field of culturally responsive evaluation …
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Hello. I’m Ron Dickson. After 23 years in a global business with more than 100K employees around the globe, I recently retired and joined a local nonprofit with fewer than 20 employees. While my role in each organization was similar (measurement and evaluation), I’ve already noticed some key differences. My experiences may help my evaluation …
Hello! We’re Josh Twomey and Joan Johnston, from UMass Medical School’s Center for Health Policy and Research (CHPR). One of the more rewarding opportunities for evaluators is to work with organizations endeavoring towards seismic change. Our own work focuses on helping large medical organizations restructure services to integrate behavioral health care into traditional primary care …
Greetings! I’m Beverly Serrell, museum exhibition consultant, evaluator, and developer with Serrell & Associates in Chicago, Illinois. As a practitioner, I am very interested in finding helpful information to improve my practice in the planning, development, and assessment of exhibits. When the Building Informal Science Education (BISE) project invited me to look at their database …
