Hello! We are Çigdem Meek, Bashar Ahmed, and Marissa Molina, PhD students at the University of Incarnate Word in San Antonio, Texas. As novice evaluators, we would like to share what we have learned from our experience of attending the 28th Annual Conference of the American Evaluation Association in Denver. Lessons Learned: Attending the conference …
My name is Art Hernandez and I am a Professor and Dean at Texas A&M University Corpus Christi. I participated in one of the very early yearlong experiences as a Fellow and have served as the Director for several cohorts. I have served as evaluator and teacher or evaluation and am very interested in the …
Hello evaluation colleagues! We’re Rachel Albert, Vice President of Learning and Impact, and Laura Beals, Director of Evaluation, from Jewish Family and Children’s Service (Boston, MA). Our department is responsible for the internal evaluation of 44 programs, collectively serving over 17,000 people a year. At JF&CS, we face two challenges in evaluation management. First, we …
We are Judy Savageau and Laura Sefton from the University of Massachusetts Medical School’s Center for Health Policy and Research (CHPR) and we’re here to introduce to you a week full of information about library resources and what role these might play in various components of your evaluation work from soup to nuts! We believe …
Hello from Patrick Germain! I am an internal evaluator, professor, blog writer, and the President of New York Consortium of Evaluators. Working as a nonprofit internal evaluator teaches you a few things about evaluating with very few resources. Even as our sector gets better at using validated evidence for accountability and learning, the resources to …
NPF TIG Week: Patrick Germain on Powerful Evaluation on Limited Resources Read More »
My name is Trina Willard and I am the Principal of Knowledge Advisory Group, a small consulting firm that provides research and evaluation services to nonprofits, government agencies and small businesses. I’ve worked with a variety of nonprofit organizations over the years, many of which have limited staff and financial resources. Such organizations sometimes have …
Hello! I’m Sheila B Robinson, aea365’s Lead Curator and sometimes Saturday contributor. Evaluation is my newer career. I’m actually an educator, having taught in K12 schools and at a university. I’m also a professional developer, having provided PD courses, workshops, coaching, and mentoring to educators and evaluators for more than 15 years, so I’m no stranger to …
Sheila B Robinson on a new p2i tool: The Audience Engagement Workbook! Read More »
Hello from Mike Trevisan and Tamara Walser! Mike is Dean of the College of Education at Washington State University and Tamara is Director of Assessment and Evaluation in the Watson College of Education at the University of North Carolina Wilmington. We’ve published, presented, and conducted workshops on evaluability assessment and are excited about our pre-conference …
PD Presenters Week: Mike Trevisan and Tamara Walser on Evaluability Assessment Read More »
Greetings from Colorado! I am Michelle Slattery, President and founder of Peak Research, a consulting firm specializing in program evaluation and STEM research, and evaluator for the 4th Judicial District Veteran Trauma Court at University of Colorado – Colorado Springs Trauma, Health & Hazards Center. I am writing about the need for evaluators in problem …
LAWG WEEK: Michelle Slattery on the Need for Evaluators in Problem Solving Courts Read More »
Hello! I’m Lisa Kohne, an independent evaluator and I work for SmartStart Consulting in Orange County, California. We specialize in conducting project evaluations for federally funded grants, primarily from the National Science Foundation. Most of our clients are math, science, and engineering professors from four-year universities. One of our big challenges is that some of …
