My name is Slavica Stevanovic, and I am the Managing Partner of Qatalyst Research Group. This blog is about the importance of storytelling that captures our imagination for the field of social finance.
Hi AEA! We are Courtney Bolinson, Morgan Buras-Finlay, Heather Esper and Lala Kasimova and we are members of the Social Impact Measurement TIG. This year at the AEA conference, we brought together Indianpolis’ impact investing and social enterprise community and AEA evaluators for a conversation about creating and telling the story of community-level change. This …
To close out this week of AEA365 dedicated to the American Journal of Evaluation, we are introducing the journal’s Associate Editors! We are Stephanie A. Dopson, Melissa Rae Goodnight, Leanne Kallemeyn, John LaVelle, and Dana Linnell. Here we are going to each share our vision for the journal. Stephanie: I am thrilled to be part …
Hello! We are Cherie Avent (Assistant Professor at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign) and Aileen Reid (Assistant Professor at the University of North Carolina Greensboro), co-section editors of Book Reviews for AJE. We are thrilled to serve in this capacity! When was the last time you read a book review that inspired you to purchase …
Hi Everyone, this is Tarek Azzam (director of the Center for Evaluation and Assessment at the University of California, Santa Barbara) and Ralph Renger (Just Evaluation Services, LLC, Vail, AZ). We are the co-editors of the Method Note Section of AJE, and we’d love to share our thoughts on the vision for this section. The …
Hello! My name is Carl Westine and I am an associate professor of Educational Research, Measurement, and Evaluation at University of North Carolina at Charlotte. I’m also the new Section Editor for Experimental Methodology with the American Journal of Evaluation (AJE). Today I want to call your attention to some scope refreshing regarding this section …
Hello, we are Daniela Schroeter andRebecca Woodland, the co-editors of the T&L section of AJE. We are professors, trainers, and evaluation practitioners, and encourage you to consider submitting an article for publication in the Teaching and Learning section of AJE. Daniela has special expertise in interdisciplinary theory and methodology, and Rebecca’s scholarship has focused on …
Greetings fellow evaluators! My name is Shannon Hitchcock, PhD (she/her/hers) (aje.managingeditor@gmail.com), and I am a quantitative sociologist, public health evaluator, and, since February 2023, the Managing Editor of the American Journal of Evaluation. I am here to discuss the peer review process. The content of this blog post is based on a presentation given by …
Greetings, and welcome to AEA365’s week of posts dedicated to the American Journal of Evaluation (AJE). We are Rodney Hopson & Laura Peck, both long-time AEA members and just installed in October 2023 as AJE’s Co-Editors-in-Chief for 2023-2026, covering what will be AJE volumes 45, 46, and 47. Our vision for the American Journal of …
In 2019, Sharon, Natalie, and I (The ARCHES Evaluation Team) held a series of meetings that focused on developing and implementing the ARCHES Collaborative Diagnostic Tool (ACDT). It was decided that this tool would be used in a multi-year pilot with the Tulare-Kings College and Career Collaborative (TKCCC). The focus of this effort was to implement the ACDT with the goals of testing and refining the language, validating and calibrating outcome indicators, clarifying roles for collaboration, developing data visualizations, and developing protocols that support the collaborative analysis of data.
