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DE Week: Homeless Youth Collaborative on Developmental Evaluation

Leave a Comment / Uncategorized / April 29, 2014 April 26, 2014

Greetings to the aea365 community. We are Heather Huseby, Deborah Loon, Major Arnel Ruppel, Matt Lasure, Denise Smieja, and Andrea Simonett representing six agencies in Minneapolis and Saint Paul, Minnesota, serving homeless youth. Rad Resource: Through an 18-month developmental evaluation process our six quite distinct agencies collaborated to develop and evaluate nine guiding principles to …

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DE Week: Michael Quinn Patton on Developmental Evaluation

Leave a Comment / Uncategorized / April 27, 2014 April 26, 2014

I am Michael Quinn Patton, author of Developmental Evaluation: Applying Complexity Concepts to Enhance Innovation and Use. I am an independent consultant based in Saint Paul, Minnesota. I have been doing and writing about evaluation for over 40 years. This week features posts by colleagues and clients engaged in various developmental evaluation initiatives. Rad Resource:Developmental …

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CP Week: Brian Hoessler on Adapting the National Pathways to Education Model to Local Realities through Developmental Evaluation

Hi, my name is Brian Hoessler and I’m a consultant who works with community-based organizations to build their capacity to make change. Previously, I worked in the non-profit sector in Ontario, most recently as a researcher at Kingston Community Health Centres for two projects including a support program for high school students called Pathways to …

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Susan Kistler on Plexus Institute’s Free Developmental Evaluation Virtual Book Club

6 Comments / Evaluation Use, Theories of Evaluation / December 31, 2011 December 31, 2011

I’m Susan Kistler, the American Evaluation Association’s Executive Director, who is happily enjoying a long holiday weekend and preparing for the new year. This week I learned about a great opportunity that I wanted to share. Hot Tip – Free Developmental Evaluation Virtual Book Club: The Plexus Institute is hosting a book club reading of …

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Michael Quinn Patton on Developmental Evaluation

11 Comments / Evaluation Use / July 26, 2010 September 5, 2010

My name is Michael Quinn Patton and I am an independent evaluation consultant. That means I make my living meeting my clients’ information needs. Over the last few years, I have found increasing demand for innovative evaluation approaches to evaluate innovations. In other words, social innovators and funders of innovative initiatives want and need an …

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MN IBPOC in Evaluation Community of Praxis Week: “There is no bad bush to throw away a bad child”: Developmental and principles-based evaluation in Sierra Leone by Hindolo Pokawa

2 Comments / Uncategorized / May 28, 2021 June 4, 2021

Kushé! My name is Hindolo Pokawa, and I am a critical development theorist and practitioner. I founded and now direct the Sierra Leone Foundation for New Democracy (SLFND). Funders often use the term “partnership” loosely. Genuine partnership is a relationship of interdependence and intersubjectivity, which is reflected in the pan-African concept known most commonly by …

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The Value of an Independent Evaluation Advisory Group for Developmental Evaluators by Barbara Klugman

3 Comments / Independent Consulting / October 25, 2018 October 21, 2018

Hi, I’m Barbara Klugman. I offer strategy support and conduct evaluations with social justice funders, NGOs, networks and leadership training institutions in South Africa and internationally. This blog is about the value of establishing an Evaluation Advisory Group when your task requires more skills that you have! I’m currently the ‘learning and assessment partner’ of …

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Judy Woods on Presenting Evaluation Findings as Developmental Questions Oriented Toward Program Improvement

6 Comments / Graduate Student and New Evaluators, Health Evaluation, Independent Consulting / May 20, 2011 May 9, 2011

My name is Judy Woods and I am a Doctoral student at Queen’s University in Kingston, Ontario, Canada. As a member of the graduate Assessment and Evaluation group, my first project as a novice evaluator involved the evaluation of an innovative medical education program. Being a Registered Nurse with extensive clinical experience in a university …

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EdEval Week: Tiffany Berry on Using Developmental Psychology to Promote the Whole Child in Educational Evaluations

1 Comment / Prek-12 Educational Evaluation / May 1, 2011 April 30, 2011

Hi! I’m Tiffany Berry, a Research Associate Professor in developmental psychology and practicing program evaluator at Claremont Graduate University’s Institute of Organizational and Program Evaluation Research (IOPER). I evaluate a variety of educational institutions, including schools, after school programs, districts, county offices of education, and textbook publishers, among others. Throughout my evaluations, I have consistently …

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YFE TIG Week: Practical Tips for Honoring Youth Voice in Evaluation and Program Design Activities by Heather Worker

Leave a Comment / Youth Focused Evaluation / April 28, 2024 April 14, 2024

Hello! My name is Heather Worker, and I am the Program Data Manager for a Food for Thought in northern California. My former evaluation roles advanced outcomes for youth and young adults, where evaluation and program design activities involved youth voice to varying degrees. Lessons Learned Rad Resources Do you have questions, concerns, kudos, or …

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