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CPE Week: Liliana Rodriguez-Campos on Collaborative Evaluation

3 Comments / Collaborative, Participatory and Empowerment Evaluation / February 18, 2011

I am Liliana Rodríguez-Campos, Co-Chair of the Collaborative, Participatory, and Empowerment Evaluation TIG. I am also an evaluation professor and the director of the Center for Research, Evaluation, Assessment and Measurement at the University of South Florida. Among other achievements, I received the American Evaluation Association’s Marcia Guttentag Award. During my evaluation career I have …

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Systems Week: Susan Wolfe on Adding an Ecological Perspective to Evaluation

Leave a Comment / Systems in Evaluation / October 5, 2010

My name is Susan Wolfe and I am the owner of Susan Wolfe and Associates, LLC, an independent consulting firm that applies Community Psychology principles to strengthening organizations and communities. Our services include program evaluation. We have found an ecological perspective useful for thinking through evaluation designs and analyzing the results. One ecological framework I …

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Systems Week: Glenda Eoyang on Complexity Demands Simplicity

Leave a Comment / Systems in Evaluation / October 5, 2010

I’m Glenda Eoyang, Executive Director of the Human Systems Dynamics (HSD) Institute. We help people thrive in the middle of chaotic environments. Our associates draw lessons from complexity sciences to help their clients and colleagues adapt to unpredictable change. We believe that the most complex challenges require the simplest solutions. If you’re already drowning, the …

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Michelle Jay on Lessons Learned in Acquiring Stakeholder Feedback

2 Comments / Collaborative, Participatory and Empowerment Evaluation, College Access Programs, Evaluation Managers and Supervisors / August 25, 2010

My name is Michelle Jay and I am an Assistant Professor at the University of South Carolina. I am an independent evaluator and also an evaluation consultant with Evaluation, Assessment and Policy Connections (EvAP) in the School of Education at UNC-Chapel Hill. Currently I serve with Rita O’Sullivan as Directors of AEA’s Graduate Education Diversity Internship …

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CAP Week: Kirsten Rewey on Developing a Research Design With College Access Programs

Leave a Comment / Collaborative, Participatory and Empowerment Evaluation, College Access Programs / July 27, 2010

My name is Kirsten Rewey and I am a Senior Research and Evaluation Associate at ACET, Inc. Two years ago ACET was selected to provide evaluation services for a federally-funded Gaining Early Awareness and Readiness for Undergraduate Programs (GEAR UP) implemented by the Minnesota Office of Higher Education (OHE). As part of the services, OHE …

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McQuiston, Lippin, and Bradley-Bull on Participatory Analysis

2 Comments / Business, Leadership, and Performance, Collaborative, Participatory and Empowerment Evaluation / October 16, 2010

Greetings!  We are Tom McQuiston (USW Tony Mazzocchi Center) and Tobi Mae Lippin and Kristin Bradley-Bull (New Perspectives Consulting Group).  We have collaborated for over a decade on participatory evaluation and assessment projects for the United Steelworkers (labor union).  And we have grappled mightily with how to complete high-quality data analysis and interpretation in participatory …

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