Hi, I’m Susan Eriksson, a geologist and science educator reformed as an evaluator for science-related programs. I write from my experience as a scientist turned evaluator with many years of working with evaluators, doing my own internal evaluation, and now doing evaluation for others. Lesson Learned: It seems that many people really ‘don’t get’ evaluation. …
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Hello, I am Ayesha Tillman, a fifth year Ph.D candidate in Educational Psychology at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Advice for new evaluators is something that my colleagues Holly Downs, Lorna Rivera, Maria Jimenez, Gabriela Juarez and I have been thinking and presenting about for quite some time now. Lessons Learned: Decide what type …
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Hello! It’s Sheila B Robinson, aea365 Lead Curator and sometimes Saturday contributor with a fabulous and tool for polishing your presentations! Great presentations are complemented by great visuals. Using icons on your slides are one way to organize information visually, and direct your audience’s attention to the topic at hand. There is no shortage …
Sheila B Robinson on Being an “Iconic” Presenter! 😉 Read More »
Hi, my name is Nicole Vicinanza and I’m a Senior Research Associate with JBS International, a consulting firm. In my consulting work, one of my roles is to provide technical assistance in evaluation to community based organizations, government programs and service providers whose primary job is not evaluation. Hot Tip: How do you explain random sampling to folks …
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Hello evaluators, my name is Dan McDonnell and I am a Community Manager for the American Evaluation Association (AEA). AEA365 recently had a small technological blip, which resulted in about a dozen posts not being emailed out to subscribers in early January. On behalf of AEA365, I want to offer our readers an apology for …
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Hi, my name is Pei-Pei Lei. I’m a survey research analyst in the Center for Health Policy and Research’s Office of Survey Research at the University of Massachusetts Medical School. As colleagues Michelle Landry and Judy Savageau pointed out in their earlier AEA365 blog on Project Management, Microsoft Office provides some options for no/low cost …
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Greetings! My name is Trina Willard and I am the Principal of Knowledge Advisory Group, a small consulting firm in Central Virginia that provides research and evaluation services to nonprofits, government agencies and small businesses. In addition to client work, I teach evaluation to nonprofit professionals and blog whenever I can. Rad Resource – For …
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Season’s Greetings! I’m Sheila B. Robinson, educator and educational evaluator. I work for Greece Central School District by day, and University of Rochester by night. I’m also Lead Curator for aea365. Not surprisingly, I already got a great holiday gift – some time off from two of the three jobs (guess which two?)! I love …
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Hi! I’m Sheila B. Robinson, aea365 Lead Curator and sometimes Saturday contributor. We all know (I hope!) the four basic Program Evaluation Standards – utility feasibility, propriety, and accuracy. Not familiar? You may want to start by reading this. These standards sound simple enough, right? Wrong! Turns out, there is a lot to know in …
My name is Dan McDonnell, and I am a Community Manager at the American Evaluation Association.
If you couldn’t already tell, I am a huge fan of Twitter, both personally and professionally. Whether I’m analyzing the latest set of #eval tweets, seeking new craft beer releases, or making connections with new people who share my similar interests, I am logged into Twitter 365 days a year. I am constantly learning new, interesting ways to get great data out of Twitter, and to better engage with my fellow Tweeters. In this post, I’ll outline five short tips you can add to your bag of Twitter tricks, and help you on your road towards becoming a Twitter Power User.
