My name is Bonnie Richards, an analyst from Foresee and Chair of the Organizational Learning and Evaluation Capacity Building TIG. Welcome to the OL-ECB sponsored AEA365 week! This week our blog posts will cover a range of experiences discussing challenges and successes we have had sustaining learning or evaluation in our work with organizations or …
Hello fellow evaluators! I’m Sheila B Robinson, aea365’s Lead Curator and sometimes Saturday contributor, and I have to admit, I get lonely sometimes. After all, I’m the only program evaluator in my organization. Sure, there are other people who collect and analyze data, but no one who can sit down with me over lunch and …
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Kirk Knestis, CEO of Hezel Associates, back again, following up on a previous post about how evaluators’ work in STEM education settings is being influenced by the Common Guidelines for Education Research and Development introduced by the National Science Foundation (NSF) and U.S. Department of Education. Hezel Associates studies education innovations so regularly supports organizations …
Hello everyone, I’m Brad Rose of Brad Rose Consulting, Inc. a Massachusetts-based consulting firm that provides program evaluation, applied social research, and organization development consulting services to national and local non-profits, community-based organizations, educational institutions, philanthropies, corporations, and state and federal agencies. I’d like to share my views about the importance of interpersonal skills to successful …
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I am Vardhani Ratnala, a monitoring and evaluation professional. In this post, I would like to share my views on the importance of CONTEXT in evaluations. Recently, at a high tea event, a friend pointed to a dress made from an Indian sari worn by an expat and suggested that we should get similar dresses …
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Hi there! My name is Leigh M. Tolley, and I’m a Research Assistant at Hezel Associates, LLC in Syracuse, NY. As an advanced doctoral student in Instructional Design, Development and Evaluation at Syracuse University, I have been fortunate to present at two annual conferences of the Eastern Evaluation Research Society (EERS), my AEA local affiliate. …
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Hello, we are William Faulkner (i2i Institute) and João Martinho (PlanPP), writing here on our own poster design process, which apparently worked well enough to impress some of the judges at AEA 2014. We were guided by a simple principle: understand what the target audience considers relevant and where this overlaps with that which we …
Kia Ora! I’m Bob Williams. In our book Systems Concepts in Action : A Practitioner’s Toolkit, Richard Hummelbrunner and I distinguished between describing situations, thinking systemically, and being systemic. I’ve see these notions describing three stages of a journey. As you read these three scenario, pose yourself the following questions. How well do the scenario …
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Hello, my name is Dan McDonnell and I am a Community Manager at the American Evaluation Association (AEA). Facebook recently announced a couple of key changes to its user experience – one that has already taken place, and another on the horizon – and I wanted to share how that may impact how you use the …
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We are Leah Christina Neubauer and Annelise Noelle Smith. Neubauer is based in DePaul’s MPH Program and is President of the Chicagoland Evaluation Association (CEA). Smith works for the Washington State Department of Social and Health Services. We are both interested in Critical Race Theory (CRT) as a theoretical and methodological orientation to promote racial, …
