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CLEAR Week: Claudia Maldonado Trujillo and Oliver Manuel Peña Advancing Evaluation of Climate Change in Latin America by Bringing Together Diverse Stakeholders

Leave a Comment / Uncategorized / May 19, 2015 May 17, 2015

We are Claudia Maldonado Trujillo and Oliver Manuel Peña, from CLEAR for Spanish-speaking Latin America. We’re located in Mexico City at CIDE (Center for Research and Teaching in Economics), a leading institution in social sciences. We’re sharing our work in advancing knowledge in evaluating climate change and how we’re addressing it through the upcoming International …

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CLEAR Week: Neha Sharma on What can behavioral science tell us about learning through evaluations?

3 Comments / Assessment in Higher Education / May 18, 2015 May 17, 2015

I’m Neha Sharma from the CLEAR Global Hub at the World Bank’s Independent Evaluation Group. A key Hub role involves facilitating learning and sharing knowledge about evaluation capacity development. So I often think about how people learn. In this context, I’ve been reading a lot of behavioral science literature, and reflecting on what makes people learn …

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CLEAR Week: Zhao Min and Ningquin Wu on Experience of Establishing a Performance-based Budgeting System: The Case of Shanghai

Leave a Comment / Uncategorized / May 17, 2015 May 17, 2015

We are Zhao Min, Deputy Director of the Asia-Pacific Finance and Development Institute (AFDI) in Shanghai, China, and Ningquin Wu, Coordinator at AFDI. AFDI is a member of the CLEAR Initiative (Centers for Learning on Evaluation and Results) and hosts the East Asia CLEAR Center. CLEAR promotes evaluation capacity building in regional centers across the …

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NA TIG Week: Ryan Watkins Words Matter: As is the case with needs

1 Comment / Needs Assessment / May 15, 2015 May 10, 2015

I am Ryan Watkins from George Washington University. Needs have been described and defined in many different ways of the years (see the December issue of New Directions in Evaluation for elaboration). One consequence of this often perplexing medley of definitions is that the word need has lost much of its meaning. Here I will …

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NA TIG Week: Lisle Hites Using GIS in Your Needs Assessment

Leave a Comment / Data Visualization and Reporting, Needs Assessment / May 14, 2015 May 10, 2015

I’m Lisle Hites, Chair of the Needs Assessment TIG and Director of the Evaluation and Assessment Unit (EAU) at the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB). Today’s posting is about the use of data visualization to enhance your needs assessment. Recently, my team worked with a state agency to help them identify potential sites for …

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NA TIG Week: Maurya West Meiers on Facilitation Tips When Working With Groups

Leave a Comment / Needs Assessment / May 13, 2015 May 10, 2015

I’m Maurya West Meiers, Senior Evaluation Officer at the World Bank and coauthor of A Guide to Assessing Needs: Essential Tools for Collecting Information, Making Decisions, and Achieving Development Results. I often work with groups in carrying out needs assessments, collecting data, training, facilitating retreats, etc. So I’m always looking for facilitation tips and resources. Today I’m …

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NA TIG Week: Sue Hamann on How to Improve a Needs Assessment Proposal

Leave a Comment / Needs Assessment / May 12, 2015 May 10, 2015

Hello, my name is Sue Hamann, and I work at the National Institutes of Health. One part of my job is to solicit and review proposals from evaluation contractors for various types of evaluation projects, including needs assessment and program planning. Today I will share some tips about improving your proposed needs assessment. Hot Tips: …

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NA TIG Week: Ryan Watkins on Research Paradigms for Needs Assessment (or Evaluation)

Leave a Comment / Needs Assessment / May 11, 2015 May 10, 2015

Ever thought about doing research on needs assessment (or evaluation for that matter)? My name is Ryan Watkins and what follows is a short description of a basic framework that can help you consider the types of research that could be useful. Based on Briggs (1982) and Driscoll (1995), the following research paradigms can offer …

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NA TIG Week: James W. Altschuld The 10 Commandments of Needs Assessors

Leave a Comment / Needs Assessment / May 10, 2015 May 10, 2015

I’m James W. Altschuld. When Ryan Watkins asked me to write a NA entry for this year’s aea365 sponsored week, he playfully dubbed me the ‘Patron Saint’ of Needs Assessment. While his perception is not accurate, allow me in that spirit to offer some commandments for Needs Assessors. Thou: art a facilitator of a process …

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