Greetings! I am Beverly Peters, assistant professor of Measurement and Evaluation at American University. This is the third article in a 6-part series on Using Focus Groups for Monitoring and Evaluation. The second article discussed planning the focus group. This article will go more in depth into a very important part of focus group planning: populating …
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Hello again! I am Beverly Peters, assistant professor of Measurement and Evaluation at American University. This is the second article in a 6-part series on Using Focus Groups for Monitoring and Evaluation. In the first article, we learned that focus groups are an appropriate data collection tool when the topic or evaluation question would benefit from …
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Greetings! I am Beverly Peters, assistant professor of Measurement and Evaluation at American University. I have over 25 years of experience teaching, researching, and designing, implementing, and evaluating community development and governance projects, mainly in southern Africa. I have spent the bulk of my career using qualitative methods to evaluate projects; and write a blog for …
Focus Groups: The Right Tool for Me? By Beverly Peters Read More »
Greetings! I’m Beverly Peters, an evaluator with over 25 years’ experience, mainly in southern Africa. As an Assistant Professor at American University, I teach online evaluation courses in Measurement and Evaluation. I am very cognizant when I teach evaluation that I am training graduate students who will in the future be conceptualizing, implementing, and/or evaluating …
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Greetings! I am Beverly Peters, an assistant professor of Measurement and Evaluation at American University. I have over 25 years of experience teaching, researching, and designing, implementing, and evaluating community development and governance projects, mainly in southern Africa. This year’s AEA Conference theme, Speaking Truth to Power, addresses the heart of a concern that I …
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Greetings! I’m Erdenechimeg (Chimgee) Ulziisuren, Founder & President of Mongolian Evaluation Association (MEA). I am also a CEO & Founder of Cognos International LLC – Research and Evaluation Company. I would like to share with you the story of MEA’s birth On September 7, 2021, I founded MEA with a vision to promote professionalization and institutionalization …
Happy New Year! This is Elizabeth Grim, AEA365 Curator and sometimes blog contributor. As we begin another year of AEA365, let’s look back on some of the highlights from 2022, as summarized by MonsterInsights. How popular was AEA365 in 2022? The AEA365 website was visited 111,653 times for a total of 121,198 sessions. Wow, that …
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Hello everyone! I’m Sheila B. Robinson, Lead Curator and sometimes Saturday contributor. A few weeks back I was excited that we were approaching 4000 articles on AEA365. Well, we reached that milestone in the first week of March 2021. I’ve always wanted to get a sense of how many people have contributed to this blog, …
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Greetings! I am Sarah Fleming, MSW, Grants & Evaluation Coordinator at Casa de Esperanza. I have been fortunate to work with amazing evaluators such as Dr. Josie Serrata and Dr. Rebecca Rodriguez at our National Latin@ Research Center on Family and Social Change and experienced Latin@ practitioners like Ivette Izea-Martinez in our community-based domestic violence …
I am Asma M. Ali, of AA & Associates LLC and the Sinai Urban Health Institute in Chicago. Greetings from the Windy City! As a community-based and culturally responsive evaluator, many of my evaluation projects are now being conducted virtually. There are both advantages and disadvantages to conducting these types of evaluation on-line. Virtual projects …
