My name is Dr. Moya Alfonso, MSPH, and I’m an Associate Professor at Georgia Southern University and University Sector Representative and Board Member for the Southeast Evaluation Association (SEA). So you want to be an evaluator but you’re unfamiliar how to moderate focus group discussions – a key qualitative approach involved with formative, process, and …
I am Dawn X. Henderson, a past fellow of AEA’s Graduate Education Diversity Initiative (GEDI) and member of the Ann E. Casey’s Expanding the Bench Initiative. I recently developed an undergraduate seminar course in Community Psychology at a Minority Serving Institution. Program evaluation is a competency in Community Psychology and modeling evaluation was critical in …
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Hello, we’re Elizabeth Kunz Kollmann from the Museum of Science, Boston and Marjorie Bequette from the Science Museum of Minnesota, two of the co-PIs for the study Complex Adaptive Systems as a Model for Network Evaluations (CASNET). As a part of CASNET, we’ve coordinated meetings, document sharing, and data analysis across team members located at …
My name is Sebastian. Before pursuing my PhD at UCLA, I served as a senior evaluation consultant at Ramboll Management – a Copenhagen-based consulting firm. My current interests revolve around research syntheses and causal modeling techniques. A common practice in evaluation is to examine the existing body of evidence of the type of intervention to …
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Hello all! Liz Zadnik here with another Saturday post to start the weekend off right! I’ll be bringing you a rundown on some of the evaluation-minded workshops from this year’s National Sexual Assault Conference (NSAC). The conference was in Los Angeles, CA and was hosted by the California Coalition Against Sexual Assault (CALCASA). Rad Resource: …
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My name is Awab and I am working as Monitoring & Evaluation Specialist with the Higher Education Commission (HEC), Islamabad. To gauge the learning of a training is always a challenge. Recently, we faced this challenge when the HEC conducted the training of about 1600 top managers of Pakistani universities. The trainings were conducted through …
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Hello fellow culturally-responsive evaluation lovers! My name is Scott Tharp and I am the Associate Director for the Center for Intercultural Programs at DePaul University. It’s a simple fact that we live in a multicultural world where multiple values and experiences are present. While some might think evaluation is inherently “neutral”, it never is. Social …
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I am Scott Chazdon, Evaluation and Research Specialist with the Extension Center for Community Vitality, University of Minnesota. I have gained skills in a process known as Ripple Effect Mapping (REM) to document impacts of Extension community development programs. REM sessions often spur important thinking, connections and work. REM is a participatory group method that …
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Hi everyone! Liz Zadnik here, aea365 Outreach Coordinator and occasional Saturday poster. Today I’d like to chat about a few people who have shaped the way I approach and appreciate evaluation. Lesson Learned: Feminism is for everybody (…thanks bell hooks). “The soul of our politics is the commitment to ending domination.” I carry this message …
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Hi there, Liz Zadnik here, bringing you another Saturday post focused on practitioner experiences and approaches. Today I’m going to focus on my personal journey to stay up-to-date and relevant in all things evaluation. I was not formally trained as an evaluator – everything I know has been learned or gained through on-the-job hands-on experiences and mentorship (I’m very …
