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BLP Week: Timothy Guetterman and Delwyn Harnisch on International Collaboration for Evaluation

Leave a Comment / Business, Leadership, and Performance / September 6, 2012 August 30, 2012

We are from the College of Education and Human Sciences, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, with Timothy Guetterman, the doctoral student, and Delwyn Harnisch, the Professor. Mixed methods approaches can be useful in assessing needs and readiness to learn among professional workshop participants. Combining qualitative and quantitative methods can enhance triangulation and completeness of findings. We recently …

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MME Week: Kristy Moster and Jan Matulis on Pulling It All Together: Creating a Strategy to Transform the Complex to the Coherent

Hi, we’re Kristy Moster and Jan Matulis. We’re evaluation specialists in the Education and Organizational Effectiveness Department at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center. Over the past year, our team has been engaged in the analysis of data from a three-year project with the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation focused on quality improvement training in healthcare. The …

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CC Week: Karen Anderson on Integrating Cultural Competency into Organizations

1 Comment / Disabilities and Underrepresented Populations, Indigenous Peoples in Evaluation, International and Cross-cultural Evaluation, Organizational Learning and Evaluation Capacity Building / July 4, 2012 May 27, 2013

I’m Karen Anderson, AEA’s Diversity Coordinator Intern, and in this role I support AEA’s diversity programs, TIGs, and the AEA Public Statement on Cultural Competence in Evaluation Dissemination Working Group. The baton has been passed from the Cultural Competence in Evaluation Task Force, the Statement developers, to the Cultural Competence in Evaluation Dissemination Working Group …

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Cindy Tananis on Being More Efficient and Effective

Leave a Comment / Independent Consulting / November 25, 2011 November 23, 2011

Greetings, Colleagues! I am Cindy Tananis, Director of the Collaborative for Evaluation and Assessment Capacity (CEAC) in the School of Education at the University of Pittsburgh (www.ceac.pitt.edu). Like many evaluation contractors, independent contractors and those in academic settings, the financial crisis looming over many not-for-profit and educational ventures, has hit our client base hard. Evaluation …

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Clare Nolan and Sonia Taddy on Capacity Building for Nonprofits

Leave a Comment / Nonprofits and Foundations Evaluation, Organizational Learning and Evaluation Capacity Building / November 1, 2011 October 27, 2011

Hello! We’re Clare Nolan and Sonia Taddy with Harder+Company Community Research, a national consulting firm that specializes in evaluation. We work with nonprofits, foundations, and government agencies throughout the country to plan and evaluate services for vulnerable populations. Lesson Learned: Over the years, we’ve evaluated multiple grantmaking initiatives designed to build the capacity of nonprofits. …

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Jenell Holstead and Mindy Hightower King on Evaluating Out-of-School Time Activities

Leave a Comment / Prek-12 Educational Evaluation / October 4, 2011 October 2, 2011

Greetings from the Midwest! We are Jenell Holstead (University of Wisconsin-Green Bay) and Mindy Hightower King (Indiana University). For the past eight years, we have evaluated 21st Century Community Learning after school programs both at the local level, as well as statewide initiatives in Indiana and Kentucky. This post discusses best practices for evaluating out-of-school …

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Teaching Tips Week: Jill Hendrickson Lohmeier on Using Online Discussions for Teaching

1 Comment / Graduate Student and New Evaluators, Teaching of Evaluation / September 27, 2011 September 2, 2011

I am Jill Hendrickson Lohmeier, an assistant professor in the Graduate School of Education at the University of Massachusetts Lowell. Previously I was the Evaluation Director for the School Program Evaluation and Research group at the University of Kansas. I teach an online graduate level program evaluation course every summer, so I will be providing …

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EdEval Week: Sheila Kohn and Chad Green on Cognitive Coaching

3 Comments / Prek-12 Educational Evaluation / May 3, 2011 September 2, 2011

Hello! We are Sheila Robinson Kohn from Greece Central School District and University of Rochester in NY, and Chad Green, from Loudoun County Public Schools in northern VA. We’re program co-chairs for the PreK-12 Educational Evaluation TIG and we welcome you to our sponsored AEA365 week, in honor of Teacher Appreciation Week. We’d like to …

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EdEval Week: Manolya Tanyu on Monitoring for Continuous Program Improvement

2 Comments / Prek-12 Educational Evaluation / May 2, 2011 May 2, 2011

My name is Manolya Tanyu and I am a researcher at American Institutes for Research (AIR), a behavioral and social science research organization to support education, educational assessment, health, international development, and work and training. My former organization, Learning Point Associates recently merged with AIR. Lessons Learned: In evaluating afterschool programs, primarily 21st Century Community …

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John Wedman on Using the Performance Pyramid in Evaluation

4 Comments / Business, Leadership, and Performance, Organizational Learning and Evaluation Capacity Building / March 28, 2011 April 20, 2011

Hello. I’m John Wedman, an administrator at the University of Missouri and former business owner. One of our business services was evaluating corporate training programs. Not surprisingly, some programs fell short of producing the desired results. Was the training lacking or was something else going on? Answering that question led us to develop the Performance …

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