Happy Saturday all! Liz Zadnik here, your trusty Outreach Coordinator, with some design fun to kick off the weekend. In addition to being an evaluation enthusiast, I also delight in design (see what I did there?!). I’d like to share a free and accessible tool you can try to create graphics for reports, social media, …
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Hi! We are Meg Hargreaves (principal associate) and David Chavis, (principal associate and CEO) at Community Science, an evaluation and consulting firm that works with governments, foundations, and non-profit organizations on solutions to social problems through community and other systems change. As part of our goal to strengthen the science and practice of building healthy, …
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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Happy November loyal readers! I’m Sheila B Robinson, aea365’s Lead Curator and sometimes Saturday contributor. A daily blog is a daily job, and I’m here to tell you that it takes a vill um, a team of enthusiastic volunteers along with our SmithBucklin* partners to make it happen. Today, I’m pleased to introduce two new members of …
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Evaluation 2014 was my first experience attending AEA’s annual conference, and the event introduced me to many outstanding evaluation professionals and organizations on twitter. Today I want to give a shout out to a few individuals and organizations that were very active throughout the conference, and are truly must-follows when it comes to finding the …
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Hi everyone! I’m Beverly Parsons, 2014 AEA president. I’m also executive director of InSites, a research, evaluation, and planning organization. Evaluation 2014 is finally here! I’d like to kick off this week of conference-focused AEA365 posts by highlighting the conference theme, Visionary Evaluation for a Sustainable, Equitable Future. The graphic summarizes the key message. It …
I’m Tamara Young and I am an associate professor in Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis at North Carolina State University. I teach evaluation theory and practice to school principals, superintendents, and college and university administrators. Today, I am sharing a few hot tips I have surmised about future directions in evaluation based on trends in education. …
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Hi, We are Sean Owen and Teresa Doksum from the Abt Associates Institutional Review Board (IRB). Sean is an information security expert and Director of Abt’s Client Cybersecurity Center. Teresa is a health services researcher and chair of the IRB. We review large-scale evaluations of government programs in the fields of health, education, social welfare, …
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Hi, We are Teresa Doksum and Sean Owen, from the Abt Associates Institutional Review Board (IRB). Teresa is a health services researcher and IRB Chair. Sean is an information security expert and Director of Abt’s Client Cybersecurity Center. We review large-scale evaluations of government programs in the fields of health, education, social policy, housing, and …
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Greetings! I am Nidal Karim, Gender and Empowerment Impact Measurement Sr. Advisor at CARE, a leading humanitarian organization fighting global poverty. The promotion of gender equality and women’s empowerment defines CARE’s programs worldwide. This means, on a daily basis, I have to think about how to pursue meaning and justice in monitoring & evaluation (M&E) …
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