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WE Week: David J. Bernstein on Sustaining an Evaluation Community of Practice

1 Comment / Uncategorized / June 2, 2014 May 26, 2014

I am David J. Bernstein, a Senior Study Director with Westat, an employee-owned research and evaluation company. I am the President-elect of Washington Evaluators (WE), the Washington, DC/Virginia/Maryland area affiliate of the American Evaluation Association (AEA). This year marks the 30th anniversary of the WE. As WE founder Michael Hendricks has noted, affiliates help develop …

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WE Week: Brian Yoder on Evaluators Visit Capitol Hill

1 Comment / Uncategorized / June 1, 2014 May 26, 2014

I’m Brian Yoder. I live in Washington, D.C., and I serve as president of the local AEA affiliate, the Washington Evaluators. I’m writing about an initiative I spearheaded called Evaluators Visit Capitol Hill which took place during the AEA conference in Washington, D.C. last year. (Share Clip) EVCH is a collaboration between AEA’s Evaluation Policy …

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Dan McDonnell on Even More Ways to Analyze Tweets with Twitonomy

Leave a Comment / Uncategorized / May 31, 2014 May 31, 2014

Hello, my name is Dan McDonnell and I am a Community Manager for the American Evaluation Association. In my last Saturday post, I introduced a Twitter measurement and analytics tool called Twitonomy and a few of the basic features available. While you can certainly pull some great data and interesting stats with the free version, the …

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NA TIG Week: Lisle Hites on Conducting a Needs Assessment on HIV/AIDS Issues in the South

1 Comment / Health Evaluation, Needs Assessment / May 30, 2014 May 24, 2014

I’m Lisle Hites, Director of the Evaluation and Assessment Unit (EAU) at the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB). I’m writing to share my team’s experiences in conducting needs assessments. We frequently have opportunities to work with our colleagues on campus to conduct needs assessments for grant-funded projects. One such example was a training grant …

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NA TIG Week: James Altschuld on Hybrid Vigor – It’s not just Needs Assessment or Asset/Capacity Building

Leave a Comment / Needs Assessment / May 29, 2014 May 24, 2014

I’m James Altschuld, Professor Emeritus of Ohio State University. I’ve written a lot over the years about needs assessment. Today’s posting is about having hybrid vigor in how we approach our work. It’s not just needs assessment or asset/capacity building, it’s both! My premise is that there are two contrasting stances. One is building from …

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NA TIG Week: Hsin-Ling (Sonya) Hung on Needs Assessment and Decision-making

Leave a Comment / Needs Assessment / May 28, 2014 May 24, 2014

My name is Hsin-Ling (Sonya) Hung, an assistant professor in the Department of Educational Foundations and Research at the University of North Dakota and Program Co-chair for the Needs Assessment (NA) TIG. The main concern I want to share in this blog is that we need to pay more attention to the influence of decision-making …

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NA TIG Week: Sue Hamann on Tips for Novice Needs Assessors

Leave a Comment / Needs Assessment / May 27, 2014 May 24, 2014

Hello, my name is Sue Hamann. I work at the National Institutes of Health as a Science Evaluation Officer, and I teach program evaluation to graduate students. Today I’m providing tips to novices in needs assessment (NA). Hot Tips: Use the original definition of needs. The original definition of NA is the measurement of the …

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NA TIG Week: Ryan Watkins on Planning to Measure Needs

Leave a Comment / Needs Assessment / May 26, 2014 May 30, 2014

I’m Ryan Watkins, Associate Professor at George Washington University and manager of two websites, www.WeShareScience.com and www.NeedsAssessment.org. Needs assessments require planning. You must plan for the “who, what, why, where, when, and how” of each step – from soliciting participation of stakeholder groups to the iterative development of grounded recommendations. An overlooked planning task involves …

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NA TIG Week: Maurya West Meiers on Introducing Needs Assessment TIG Week and Identifying and Staying in Touch with Your Needs Assessment Stakeholders and Informants

1 Comment / Needs Assessment / May 25, 2014 May 24, 2014

My name is Maurya West Meiers. I work at the World Bank as a Senior Evaluation Officer and am coauthor of A Guide to Assessing Needs: Essential Tools for Collecting Information, Making Decisions, and Achieving Development Results (available free here). This week’s blog postings are from members of the Needs Assessment TIG. Check out our …

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Sheila B Robinson on Playing “Trivial Pursuit” – AEA Style!

Leave a Comment / Uncategorized / May 24, 2014 May 24, 2014

Hello! I’m Sheila B Robinson, aea365’s Lead Curator and sometimes Saturday contributor, and I have some questions for you today! Hot Tip: Poke around AEA’s website (or go directly to this link under the “Learning” tab) and you’ll find some fabulous trivia about the annual conference. For instance… 1.) Who was president of AEA in …

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