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LAWG Week: Patricia Moore Shaffer on STEM Evaluation in Informal Settings

My name is Patricia Moore Shaffer. I am the Evaluation Manager for the NASA Office of Education in Washington, DC, and enjoy networking with colleagues through the Washington Evaluators and the Federal Evaluator groups. Informal learning experiences, such as summer and after-school programs or museum exhibitions, present a prime venue for fostering youth interest in …

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LAWG Week: Valerie Caracelli on AEA’s Conference Theme

Leave a Comment / Evaluation Managers and Supervisors, Evaluation Policy, Government Evaluation / July 30, 2013 July 30, 2013

This post comes to you from Valerie Caracelli, Senior Social Science Analyst at the U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO). I’m serving with David Bernstein as co-chair of the Local Arrangements Working Group (LAWG) for the 2013 American Evaluation Association Conference in Washington, D.C. October 14-19. Lessons Learned—Do federal managers use performance information? The conference theme, …

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LAWG Week: Andy Blum on Improving Evaluation at the United States Institute of Peace

1 Comment / Evaluation Managers and Supervisors, Evaluation Policy, Government Evaluation, Organizational Learning and Evaluation Capacity Building / July 29, 2013 July 29, 2013

I am Andy Blum, Vice President for Program Management and Evaluation at the U.S. Institute of Peace (USIP), an independent organization that helps communities around the world, prevent, manage or recover from violent conflict. I recently spoke at a brown bag for the Washington Evaluators about the process of improving my organization’s learning and evaluation processes …

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LAWG Week: David Bernstein on the Value of Early Registration for the 2013 AEA Conferences

2 Comments / Uncategorized / July 28, 2013 July 28, 2013

I am David J. Bernstein, a Senior Study Director with Westat, an employee-owned research and evaluation company. Val Caracelli and I are the Local Arrangements Working Group (LAWG) Co-Chairs for the 2013 AEA Conference in Washington, DC from October 14-19. The LAWG is mobilizing local expertise and resources to enhance the annual conference and facilitate …

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PD Presenters Week: Joyce Miller and Tania Bogatova on Lean Thinking for Program Evaluation

Leave a Comment / Uncategorized / July 26, 2013 July 26, 2013

Hello! Our names are Joyce Miller and Tania Bogatova, from KeyStone Research Corporation (KSRC), a research and consulting organization in Erie, Pennsylvania. KSRC provides expertise to organizations, enabling them to link research, policy, and practice and to build their capacity for performance excellence. We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, …

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PD Presenters Week: Matt Militello & Chris Janson On Empowering Participants in Evaluation

Leave a Comment / Collaborative, Participatory and Empowerment Evaluation / July 25, 2013 July 25, 2013

We are we Matt Militello and Chris Janson. We have been working together since 2002. Our first collaboration was as educators in a public high school in Michigan where Militello was an assistant principal and Janson a counselor. We both left the K-12 setting to obtain doctorate degrees and now continue work together on research …

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PD Presenters Week: Kaia Ambrose and Simon Hearn on A Whistle-Stop Tour of Outcome Mapping

1 Comment / Uncategorized / July 24, 2013 July 24, 2013

We are Kaia Ambrose of CARE Canada and Simon Hearn of the Overseas Development Institute, UK and we’ll be facilitating a professional development workshop at this year’s AEA Conference to introduce Outcome Mapping (OM). We’d like to share with you our whistle-stop-tour of OM and how it can add value to your evaluations, drawing on …

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PD Presenters Week: Apollo M Nkwake on Working with assumptions in program evaluation

Leave a Comment / Uncategorized / July 23, 2013 July 23, 2013

I’m Apollo M Nkwake, a Research Associate Professor at Tulane University’s Disaster Resilience and Leadership Academy. I design monitoring and evaluation plans, conduct program evaluations and facilitate a graduate course in quantitative analysis of disaster resilience. Lessons learned: An elaborate design that explicates assumptions on which programs are premised, is essential for viable program evaluation. In …

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PD Presenters week: John Owen on Rapid Response Evaluation: Concepts and Practice

Leave a Comment / Uncategorized / July 22, 2013 July 22, 2013

Hello, I am John Owen, Principal Fellow at the Centre for Program Evaluation in Melbourne Australia. For quite a while I have been interested in how evaluation can influence the quality of social policy and program delivery. The lesson I wish to convey is that, fundamentally, evaluation should be seen as a servant of good …

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PD Presenters Week: Jennifer Ann Morrow on What to Do With “Dirty” Data – Steps For Getting Evaluation Data Clean and Useable

Leave a Comment / Uncategorized / July 21, 2013 July 21, 2013

I’m Jennifer Ann Morrow, a faculty member in Evaluation, Statistics, and Measurement at the University of Tennessee. I created a 12 Step process evaluators can follow to ensure their data is clean prior to conducting analyses. Hot Tip: Evaluators should follow these 12 steps prior to conducting analyses for evaluation reports: 1. Create a data …

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