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Steve Young on Making Evaluation Surveys More Appealing

I’m Steve Young, a recent evaluation post-doctoral fellow at the Center for Creative Leadership (CCL) in Greensboro, NC. Currently, I work at Design Interactive in Oveido, FL. Have you ever thought about how you could make evaluation surveys more “catchy?” Rad Resource: Read “Contagious” by Jonah Berger which offers some research-based tips for how anyone …

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LGBT TIG Week: Terry L. Brown on Transgressing Gender

My name is Terry L. Brown, and I am a doctoral candidate in the College of Education at Northern Illinois University in DeKalb, Illinois. Transgressing gender is the practice of blurring socio-constructed gender boundaries as a strategic response to heteronormative practice. Heteronormative, also referred to as gender normative, practice seeks efficiencies through standardizing and regulating …

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PD CoP Week: Barb Goldsby on Evaluating Professional Development: Guskey Level 2 – Participant Learning

Hello, I am Barb Goldsby, Interim Director of the Exceptional Student Services Unit and Supervisor of the Secondary Transition Services Team from the Colorado Department of Education. We truly value meaningful evaluations of our training, technical assistance and professional development.  With the help of the National Secondary Transition Technical Assistance Center (NSTTAC), we have taken …

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Gary Resnick on Using Social Network Analysis to Describe Inter-Organizational Coordination and Collaboration Networks

My name is Gary Resnick and I am the Director of Research at Harder+Company Community Research, a California-based consulting firm. My background combines program evaluation with child development research, and I have an interest in system theory and networks. Harder+Company has been involved evaluating First 5 programs in a number of California counties. First 5 …

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Bloggers Series: Glenn O’Neil on Intelligent Measurement

Hello, I’m Glenn O’Neil, founder of Owl RE, evaluation consultancy and co-author of the Intelligent Measurement blog. Rad Resource – Intelligent Measurement: The blog focuses on issues and trends in evaluation, with a particular focus on communications, training, development and events. On average I blog about one time a week and have done so since …

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Ricardo Gomez on Using Q Methodology for Evaluation

Greetings. My name is Ricardo Gomez and I currently work as a Research and Evaluation Associate for the National Collegiate Inventors and Innovators Alliance. I am also a doctoral candidate in International Education at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, Center for International Education, and alumnus of the AEA-Duquesne University Graduate Diversity Internship Program. The opinions …

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Antonio J. Castro on Program Evaluation: More than Just Numbers

Hello. I’m Antonio J. Castro, and I am an assistant professor in the Department of Learning, Teaching, and Curriculum at the University of Missouri-Columbia. I teach courses in qualitative research and have been project director and coordinator for a variety of grant-funded initiatives. Project directors are constantly tasked with trying to represent the quality of …

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Lacie Barber on Survey Methodology Tips for Improving Quantitative Data Quality

Hi, my name is Lacie Barber and I am the Statistics Counselor at Smith College in the Spinelli Center for Quantitative Learning. I have a Ph.D. in Industrial-Organizational Psychology and a minor in Research Methodology. Many researchers and practitioners work hard to develop and/or select psychometrically sound quantitative measures for their projects. Unfortunately, less attention …

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S Mooshegian on Making the Most Out of Kirkpatrick’s Lvl 1 Measurement in the Classroom

Hi, my name is Stephanie Mooshegian, and I am an Assistant Professor of Organizational Studies at Saint Louis University. My doctoral studies were in Industrial/Organizational Psychology with a minor in Research Methods, and I am pleased to have been introduced to AEA. Most of you are probably familiar with Kirkpatrick’s four level framework for program …

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Kim Sabo Flores on Engaging Youth in Evaluation

Hello fellow evaluators!! My name is Kim Sabo Flores and I am the creator of Evaluation Access, an evaluation capacity building organization that serves non-profit staff and youth participants.  I began my evaluation career with a focus on engaging children and youth in evaluation but soon realized that adult staff also needed support.  Over the …

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