My name is Melissa Cater, and I am an assistant professor and evaluation specialist at Louisiana State University AgCenter. The purpose of the Evaluation CoP is to support people within the Cooperative Extension system who are interested in evaluating Extension programs. While the focus of our group is supporting Extension evaluation efforts, the information is …
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My name is Susan Kistler. I am the American Evaluation Association’s Executive Director and aea365’s regular Saturday contributor. Back in May of 2011, Alex da Silva wrote a great aea365 post on Expanding Your Capacity With Microsoft Excel, suggesting resources for beginner, intermediate, and advanced Excel users. Today, I have something new to add to …
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Hello! We’re Judy Savageau and Laura Sefton from the Center for Health Policy and Research (CHPR) at the University of Massachusetts Medical School. We evaluators have in our minds all the steps required to complete each project, yet we must also consider quality improvement in our work as we think about our methodologies internally and …
Greetings, I’m Ann Emery from Innovation Network in Washington, DC. I also tweet and blog about evaluation. If you recently completed your graduate or undergraduate degree, congratulations! You’ve already learned some of the key elements of evaluation. However, evaluation involves more than theory, methods, and statistical formulas. Hot Tips: Here are 10 things you probably …
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My name is Susan Kistler. I am the American Evaluation Association’s Executive and aea365’s regular Saturday contributor. We’ve been writing a lot lately about AEA’s upcoming conference, Evaluation 2012. Today, I wanted to provide an update on our fourth quarter eStudy workshops – three foundational offerings for filling your evaluation toolbox, even if you can’t …
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My name is Elizabeth (AKA: Bessa) Whitmore. Now a retired Professor from the School of Social Work, Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada, I have been a member of the Feminist TIG since its inception. The following entry draws on a chapter I am writing entitled “Researcher/evaluator roles and social justice” in a forthcoming Handbook on Feminist …
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I am Susan Kistler, the American Evaluation Association’s Executive Director and aea365’s Saturday contributor. Although it cleared 80 degrees today, Labor Day is nearly upon us and with it the return to school. This means the return of 30 teenage boys to the dorm in which we have lived for the past 10 years, high …
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My name is Susan Kistler, the American Evaluation Association’s Executive Director and aea365 Saturday contributor. I went to graduate school at the University of Minnesota and thus am especially pleased to be able to share with you information about this year’s AEA annual conference in Minneapolis. Hot Tip – Evaluation 2012: Registration is now open …
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Greetings aea365 community! I’m Ann Emery and I’ve been both an external evaluator and an internal evaluator. Today I’d like to share a few of the reasons why I absolutely love internal evaluation. Lessons Learned: Internal evaluation is a great career option for fans of utilization-focused evaluation. It gives me opportunities to: Meet regularly with Chief Operating Officers and Executive …
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I’m Sarah Gill, membership chair for the Atlanta-area Evaluation Association (AaEA). Recently AaEA hosted a spring social. The event was inspired by the recent AEA 365 posts making predictions for the future of evaluation. Maureen Wilce, AaEA’s chair for professional development, and I thought the posts would inspire great conversation among our fellow evaluators – …
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