AEA365 – Page 351 – A Tip-a-Day by and for Evaluators

PD Presenters Week: Mary Crave, Kerry Zaleski and Tererai Trent on Do your participatory methods contribute to an equitable future?

Leave a Comment / Collaborative, Participatory and Empowerment Evaluation / July 31, 2014 July 26, 2014

Greetings from Mary Crave and Kerry Zaleski, of the University of Wisconsin – Extension and Tererai Trent of Tinogona Foundation and Drexel University. For the past few years we’ve teamed up to teach participatory methods for engaging vulnerable and historically under-represented persons in monitoring and evaluation. We’ve taught hands-on professional development workshops at AEA conferences, …

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PD Presenters Week: Brian Yates on Doing Cost-Inclusive Evaluation. Part III: Cost-Benefit Analysis

1 Comment / Uncategorized / July 30, 2014 July 26, 2014

“But wait — there’s more!” Hi! I’m Brian Yates. Yes, this is the third piece in a series of “AEA365’s” on using cost data in evaluation … and not entirely inappropriate for your former AEA Treasurer to author. (I’m also Professor in the Department of Psychology at American University in Washington, DC.) My past two …

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PD Presenters Week: Mindy Hightower King and Courtney Brown on A Framework for Developing High Quality Performance Measurement Systems of Evaluation

2 Comments / Uncategorized / July 29, 2014 July 26, 2014

Hello. We are Mindy Hightower King, Research Scientist at Indiana University and Courtney Brown, Director of Organizational Performance and Evaluation at Lumina Foundation. We have been working to strengthen and enhance performance management systems for the last decade and hope to provide some tips to help you create your own. Lesson Learned: Why is this …

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PD Presenters Week: Osman Özturgut and Cindy Crusto on Remembering the “Self” in Culturally Competent Evaluation

Leave a Comment / Uncategorized / July 28, 2014 July 26, 2014

Hi, we’re Osman Özturgut, assistant professor, University of the Incarnate Word and Cindy Crusto, associate professor, Yale University School of Medicine. We are members of the AEA Public Statement on Cultural Competence in Evaluation Dissemination Working Group. We are writing to inform you of our forthcoming professional development workshop at Evaluation 2014 in Denver. Since …

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PD Presenters Week: M. H. Clark and Haiyan Bai on Using Propensity Score Adjustments

Leave a Comment / Quantitative Methods: Theory and Design / July 27, 2014 July 26, 2014

Hi! We are M. H. Clark and Haiyan Bai from the University of Central Florida in Orlando, Florida. Over the last several years propensity score adjustments (PSAs) have become increasingly popular; however, many evaluators are unsure of when to use them. A propensity score is the predicted probability of a participant selecting into a treatment …

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Dan McDonnell on Learning More About Your Twitter Community with FollowerWonk

1 Comment / Uncategorized / July 26, 2014 July 26, 2014

Hello, my name is Dan McDonnell and I am a Community Manager at the American Evaluation Association (AEA). If you’re a frequent Twitter user, you’re probably familiar with Twitter’s ‘Who to Follow’ feature – a widget in the right sidebar that ‘suggests’ Twitter users for you to follow, based on your profile and following list. If …

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GSNE Week: Alice Walters on Stakeholder Engagement

Leave a Comment / Graduate Student and New Evaluators / July 25, 2014 July 20, 2014

I’m Alice Walters, a member of AEA’s Graduate Student and New Evaluator TIG. I am a doctoral student in human services and work as a non-profit consultant in fund development, marketing, and evaluation. Here, I explore potential pitfalls and recommendations based on experience with stakeholders for new evaluators. Hot Tip 1: Stakeholders are central to …

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GSNE Week: Laura Pryor on Considerations for Teacher Evaluations with Multiple Measures

Leave a Comment / Graduate Student and New Evaluators, Prek-12 Educational Evaluation / July 24, 2014 July 20, 2014

Greetings, I am Laura Pryor. In addition to being a GEDI alumna, I am a student at UC Berkeley’s Graduate School of Education in the Quantitative Methods and Evaluation program. As part of my graduate evaluation work, I have been exploring the recent trend of using multiple measures to evaluate teachers. As part of this …

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GSNE Week: Jenna LaChenaye on Re-Socializing Yourself from Practitioner to Academic

Leave a Comment / Graduate Student and New Evaluators / July 23, 2014 July 20, 2014

Hello, evalusphere! I am Jenna LaChenaye from the University of Alabama at Birmingham. As an evaluation practitioner transitioning into the world of academia, I have found myself positioned at the epicenter of tackling the learning curve that separates these two vital yet divergent arenas of evaluation. As an evaluator and lover of social research inquiry, …

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GSNE Week: Kate Westaby and Valerie Moody on How to Hit the Ground Running in your New Evaluation Position!

Leave a Comment / Graduate Student and New Evaluators / July 22, 2014 July 20, 2014

Greetings! We are Kate Westaby and Valerie Moody, new evaluators from two Clinical and Translational Science Award (CTSA) institutes. Kate is an Evaluation Research Specialist at the University of Wisconsin-Madison Institute for Clinical and Translational Research and Valerie is the Evaluation Coordinator at the University of Iowa Institute for Clinical and Translational Science. At the …

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