Greetings! I’m Sheila B Robinson, aea365’s Lead Curator and sometimes Saturday contributor. After ushering in the weekend with a full day of data analysis and evaluation report writing, I’m ready for a break, so I’m here to share a little about Memorial Day, celebrated in the US on Monday May 29, 2017. On Memorial Day, we honor …
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Hi, we are Tim Sheldon and Jane Fields, Research Associates at the Center for Applied Research and Educational Improvement (CAREI) at the University of Minnesota. We serve as external evaluators for EngrTEAMS, a five-year, $8 million project funded by the National Science Foundation. The project is a partnership involving the University of Minnesota’s Science, Technology, …
Happy Wednesday! I’m Natalie Trisilla, Senior Evaluation Specialist at the International Republican Institute (IRI). IRI is a non-profit, non-partisan organization committed to advancing democracy and democratic principles worldwide. Monitoring and evaluation (M&E) are critical to our work as these practices help us to continuously improve our projects, capture and communicate results and ensure that project …
DG TIG Week: M&E: An Intervention Itself by Natalie Trisilla Read More »
Hi! We are Morgan J Curtis (independent consultant) and Strong Oak Lafebvre (executive director of Visioning BEAR Circle Intertribal Coalition). Along with Patrick Lemmon (independent consultant), we have the good fortune of serving as the evaluation team for the Walking in Balance (WIB) initiative. WIB is an innovative approach to violence prevention that focuses on …
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 …
My name is John LaVelle from Louisiana State University. It is my pleasure to lead a number of evaluation and applied methodology courses for graduate and undergraduate students. All of my courses include service-learning and experiential learning components to help reinforce the learning objectives and provide operational/conceptual support for community partners. A concept that that …
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Greetings aea365 readers AND authors! I’m Sheila B Robinson, aea365’s Lead Curator and sometimes Saturday contributor. A few weeks ago, I wrote this post asking what you would like to read about on aea365 in 2017. Many thanks to those who offered comments with ideas for posts. Now, I’m writing to ask YOU to consider contributing a post on …
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We are Lisa Holliday and Olivia Stevenson. We are data architects with The Evaluation Group where we have recently begun to transition to R for data analysis. R is a free program for statistical analysis that is powerful, but can have a steep learning curve if you want to utilize its scripting capabilities. Is R …
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My name is Courtney Barnard and I am a social worker, coalition coordinator, and program evaluator for a children’s health care system in Fort Worth, Texas. Lessons Learned: I recently attended a workshop on local children’s health data and racial equity. I quickly realized that, though with good intentions, my colleagues and I often conflate …
We are Caitlin Ruffenach, Researcher, and Kim Leonard, Senior Evaluation Officer, from The Oregon Community Foundation (OCF). Among other things, we are working on an evaluation of the Studio to School Initiative at OCF, which focuses on the development of sustainable arts education programs through partnerships between arts organizations and schools. This past summer, in …
