Hello. I’m Ehren Reed and I am a Director with Innovation Network. For several years, much of my work has involved the evaluation of advocacy and policy change efforts. During that time, I have witnessed this topic grow from a conversation between a small cadre of evaluators and funders to a full-fledged field with an …
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I’m Susan Eliot, principal of Eliot & Associates, a qualitative research firm in Portland Oregon and I write a qualitative research blog. Rad Resource –The focus of my blog is applying qualitative methods in real life situations. As evaluators, most of us have taken a course or two on the “How To’s” of conducting qualitative …
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If it is Saturday, it must be Susan. I’m Susan Kistler, the American Evaluation Association’s Executive Director, and I contribute each Saturday’s post to aea365. Today’s post is a call to action. Hot Tip – aea365 is seeking contributors: Yes! We’re looking for aea365 authors to fill the new year with great content spanning the …
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Hello, I’m Linda Cabral, a Senior Project Director from the Center for Health Policy and Research at the University of Massachusetts Medical School. In an effort to more fully engage people from different cultural backgrounds and their communities in one of our recently-completed qualitative evaluation projects for our State’s Department of Mental Health, we employed …
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My name is Käri Greene and I’m a Senior Research Analyst at Program Design & Evaluation Services, an intergovernmental agency for the Oregon Public Health Division and Multnomah County Health Department. I first started using software with qualitative data analysis back when the main QSR product was called NUD*IST. And I’ll admit – I got …
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I am Susan Kistler, AEA’s Executive Director, and the aea365 contributor for each Saturday. Today, I want to share with you items in the AEA Public eLibrary from a selection of sessions at the 2011 AEA/CDC Summer Evaluation Institute. These are handouts and slides from the 40+ workshops, pre-Institute day-long trainings, and keynotes offered this …
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I am Lisanne Brown, Director of Evaluation and Research at the Louisiana Public Health Institute (LPHI). I lead a staff of 10 evaluators who evaluate LPHI’s programs. Increasingly we are also providing evaluation services to external organizations and programs throughout Louisiana. As part of an evaluation of a peer led HIV and AIDS prevention program …
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Hello, I’m Michelle Baron. I am the Associate Director at The Evaluators’ Institute (an evaluation training organization), and the Chair of the aea365 Tip-a-Day Team. Today I’d like to share with you some strategies for involving stakeholders in the evaluation process. In today’s fast-paced, information rich world, one of the most helpful pieces of guidance …
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My name is Manolya Tanyu and I am a researcher at American Institutes for Research (AIR), a behavioral and social science research organization to support education, educational assessment, health, international development, and work and training. My former organization, Learning Point Associates recently merged with AIR. Our world is a nested one where individuals are influenced …
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Good Morning! Susan Kistler here, AEA’s Executive Director. We’ve had a number of posts talking about creating and using word clouds, primarily in terms of creating them through wordle. Word clouds take a set of text and create a cloud of the most frequent words in that text with word size within the cloud based …
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