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ICT4D for MEAL Week: Or Dashevsky on Sierra Leone Malaria Indicator Survey

Leave a Comment / Research, Technology and Development Evaluation / November 19, 2013

Hi, my name is Or Dashevsky, Chief Solution Architect for Catholic Relief Services based in Baltimore. I’m responsible for providing technical leadership to a team who develop CRS’ enterprise architecture. Malaria is endemic in Sierra Leone, with stable and perennial transmission in all parts of the country. As such, the entire population is at risk …

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ICT4D for MEAL Week: Mike Matarasso on Some Lessons Learned While Building and Rolling Out a Global M&E/ICT Platform

4 Comments / Research, Technology and Development Evaluation / November 16, 2013

Hi! My name is Mike Matarasso and I’m responsible for leading the design, testing and global roll out of a Monitoring and Evaluation / Information Communication Technology (M&E/ICT) platform for Catholic Relief Services (CRS). The platform will help us gather timely and high quality data to track performance across the agency, to inform change at …

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ICT4D for MEAL week: Guy Sharrock on Transforming the Way we Work

Leave a Comment / Research, Technology and Development Evaluation / November 16, 2013

Hi, my name is Guy Sharrock. I work in a small team of advisors working for Catholic Relief Services (CRS) responsible for improving the quality of the agency’s Monitoring, Evaluation, Accountability and Learning (MEAL) activities. CRS is working to improve the lives of individuals in over 90 countries. CRS views the rapid expansion of cellular …

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Linda Cabral and Judy Savageau on Improve Your Surveys by Conducting Cognitive Interviews

1 Comment / Qualitative Methods / November 2, 2013

We are Linda Cabral and Judy Savageau from the University of Massachusetts Medical School’s Center for Health Policy and Research. All of our projects involve some type of data collection, sometimes in the form of a survey.  In order to get high quality survey data, you need to ensure that your respondents are interpreting questions …

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Courtney Heppner and Sarah Rand on Producing Online Evaluation Reports

Leave a Comment / Data Visualization and Reporting, Distance Education and Other Educational Technologies / October 8, 2013

Greetings from the University of Chicago! We are Courtney Heppner and Sarah Rand, Associate Project Directors for Research and Evaluation at the Center for Elementary Mathematics and Science Education (CEMSE) at the University of Chicago. We will be presenting at AEA’s Annual Conference in DC about producing online evaluation reports. Sarah has blogged about online …

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LAWG Week: Jeff Williams on Pre-Pilot Language Testing

Leave a Comment / Disabilities and Underrepresented Populations / September 24, 2013

Hello! I am Jeff Williams, PhD Candidate in Public Policy and Public Administration at the George Washington University, member of the evaluation team at CRDF Global, and member of the Washington Evaluators. Today I’ll be sharing tips and tricks about writing surveys for communities that have English as a second language, or which don’t use …

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Carla Hillerns on Thoughtful Tokens of Appreciation to Encourage Study Participation

3 Comments / Uncategorized / September 19, 2013

Hello, fellow aea365ers! My name is Carla Hillerns and I manage research projects in the Center for Health Policy & Research’s Office of Survey Research at the University of Massachusetts Medical School. Evaluation pumps me up because it offers the opportunity to discover ways to improve processes and results. To get there, my work relies …

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BLP TIG Week: Carla Forrest on Using Appreciative Approaches to Drive Workplace Performance

Leave a Comment / Business, Leadership, and Performance / September 3, 2013

Greetings! I am Carla Forrest, a staff member and Lean Six Sigma Black Belt at Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, New Mexico. My professional work involves configuration management of scientific and engineering knowledge and information. My passion, however, lies in using appreciative approaches to improve workplace performance. Rad Resource Recently I read “The 5 Languages of …

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Sheila B. Robinson on “Ancora Imparo Valutazione” (I am still learning evaluation)!

Leave a Comment / Teaching of Evaluation / August 31, 2013

Hello! I’m Sheila B. Robinson, aea365’s Leader Volunteer Curator. I teach Program Evaluation Methods at University of Rochester’s Warner School of Education, and am a grant coordinator for Greece Central School District in Rochester, NY. In my spare time, I read, learn and blog about evaluation, and it’s no exaggeration to say I never come …

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DVR Week: Ann Emery on the Dataviz Hall of Fame for Evaluation

7 Comments / Data Visualization and Reporting / January 12, 2014

Greetings, I’m Ann Emery from Innovation Network in Washington, DC. A few years ago, I discovered Hans Rosling’s 200 Countries, 200 Years, 4 Minutes video. I’d never seen anyone share data in a way that simply made so much sense. Since then, I’ve been hooked on dataviz. Thankfully, I’m not alone! As the demand for …

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