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Elizabeth Tully on the Measuring Success Toolkit

I am Elizabeth Tully the Online Toolkit Manager at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health’s Center for Communication Programs (JHU?CCP). One of the toolkits that I work on regularly is the Measurement, Learning & Evaluation (MLE) Project‘s Measuring Success Toolkit. This toolkit provides guidance on how to use data to plan a health …

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Angela Fitzgerald on Engaging the Community – an Evaluator’s Perspective

Hello! My name is Angela Fitzgerald and I am a Senior Researcher with the National Council on Crime and Delinquency (NCCD: www.nccdglobal.org) – a nonprofit that works to promote just and humane social systems. I have been involved in and have witnessed evaluation work from a number of vantage points, and a challenge that seems …

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Lisa R. Holliday on Creating a List of Unique Values with Power Query

My name is Lisa R. Holliday, and I am an Evaluation Associate with The Evaluation Group in Columbia, SC. I was recently cleaning survey data and preparing it to be uploaded into a database. The survey had been offered multiple times, and I wanted to track the responses of participants who had completed the survey …

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John Murphy on Ode to the Annotation

Greetings, fellow evaluation enthusiasts! My name is John Murphy and I am an Evaluation Associate on the Education Research and Measurement team at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center. We provide evaluative support to various forms of learning and career development, ranging from clinical orientation to leadership and management training. One of our clients does extensive …

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Sherry Campanelli and Laura Newhall on The Best Laid Plans: Navigating the Potholes and Pitfalls of Group Facilitation

Hi. We’re Sherry Campanelli, Program Compliance Manager and Laura Newhall, Clinical Training Coordinator, from the University of Massachusetts Medical School’s Disability Evaluation Services. As an organization, we are committed to ongoing quality improvement efforts to enhance our services for people with disabilities. Earlier, we wrote about common techniques that help a quality improvement (QI) team …

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Jayne Corso on Evaluation Professionals and Organizations to Follow on Twitter

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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AaEA Affiliate Week: Karen Anderson on Hot Tips for Successful Affiliate Events

Hi there! I’m Karen Anderson and I’m the programming Co-chair for the Atlanta-area Evaluation Association. After wrapping up my experience as the AEA Diversity Coordinator Intern last year I wanted to stay active and connected to the AEA community. During my short time working on the programming team I’ve learned a few tricks of the …

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AaEA Affiliate Week: Ayana Perkins on the Development of an Opportunity Role Structure in the Local Affiliate

Hi, my name is Ayana Perkins, the programming Co-Chair of the Atlanta-area Evaluation Association as well as Senior Research Analyst and Evaluator at Infinite Services and Solutions. Lesson Learned: When evaluating organizations for empowerment one of the characteristics to explore is whether the agency is set up to be an opportunity role structure. Organizations structured …

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AaEA Affiliate Week: Ayana Perkins on Setting Yourself Up For Success in Qualitative Data Collection

Hi, my name is Ayana Perkins, the programming Co-Chair of the Atlanta-area Evaluation Association as well as Senior Research Analyst and Evaluator at Infinite Services and Solutions. I am a qualitative enthusiast and often train other evaluators and researchers in these methods. What I have noticed is that participants are more likely to right to …

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AaEA Affiliate Week: Lindsey Stillman on Creating a System of Care for Vulnerable Populations

Hello, my name is Lindsey Stillman and I work at Cloudburst Consulting Group, a small business that provides technical assistance and support for a number of different Federal Agencies. My background is in Clinical-Community Psychology and so providing technical assistance around evaluation and planning is my ideal job! Currently I am working with several communities …

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