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ACA TIG Week: Don Glass on Seeing the System Using Root Cause Analysis

Hi. I am Don Glass, an independent consultant who is a visual artist, learning designer, and developmental evaluator. Hot Tips: One of the things that I love about attending the AEA annual conference is getting the opportunity to better understand how my work can relate to and be informed by recent debates and developments in the …

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Veronica Olazabal and Linda Raftree on 5 Non-technical Tips on Data Dashboards for Decision-Making

Veronica Olazabal (Rockefeller Foundation) and Linda Raftree (Kurante) here on considerations for data dashboards. Linda recently organized a Tech Salon on this at The Rockefeller Foundation. A session around dashboards had to include Stephanie Evergreen. We also wanted to hear from others, so we included Shawna Hoffman (MasterCard Foundation) and John DeRiggi (DAI). Dashboards might …

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Liz Zadnik on The Logic of The Magic of Tidying Up

Hello all!  Liz Zadnik here with another Saturday post.  I can’t believe it’s already November – I don’t know about you, but time is really flying!  Today’s post is an update on my reading list post.  My first book was Marie Kondo’s The Life-changing Magic of Tidying Up, partly because I am an unabashed organizer and …

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Gov’t Eval TIG Week: Diana Harbison on Using Evaluation to Enhance Employee Engagement

My name is Diana Harbison and I’m the Director of the Program Monitoring and Evaluation Office at the U.S. Trade and Development Agency, which links U.S. businesses to global infrastructure opportunities. According to a recent survey, USTDA has some of the most engaged employees in the United States government. There are countless articles – and …

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STEM TIG Week: Taylor Martin on Evaluating Learning and Engagement in Active Learning Environments

Hi! My name is Taylor Martin and I’m a Professor in Instructional Technology and Learning Sciences at Utah State University. I also run the Active Learning Lab (activelearninglab.org) where I work with a great bunch of colleagues and students researching and evaluating active and fun learning experiences for kids of all ages around programming, computational …

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Liz Zadnik with her Fall Evaluation Reading List

Greetings! Liz Zadnik here, your trusty Outreach Coordinator and Saturday contributor.  This post celebrates some of my favorite things: reading, autumn, and…lists!    Rad Resources: A personal goal of mine as I strive to be more confident and comfortable with my evaluation skills, is to develop a reading list each season (or every few months). …

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Feminist TIG Week: Rituu Nanda and The story of gender and evaluation in an online community

Hi, I am Rituu B Nanda and I work on M&E, community engagement, participatory action research and knowledge management. I work with multiple organisations like Institute of Social Studies Trust (ISST), Anti-Slavery International, and Constellation. I moderate an international online community of practice (CoP) – Gender and Evaluation – under ISST’s project “Engendering Policy through …

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NPF TIG Week: Laura Beals on the Importance of High Quality Data

Hello Evaluation Colleagues! I am Laura Beals, Director of Evaluation at Jewish Family & Children’s Service (JF&CS) in Boston. Kathryn Hill and I are the business co-chairs of the Nonprofit and Foundations Nonprofit TIG (NPFTIG). We are excited to be kicking off the NPFTIG week on AEA365—our theme this year matches that of the conference: …

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Sheila B Robinson on Evaluation…Better Evaluation!

Hello All! I’m Sheila B Robinson, aea365’s Lead Curator and sometimes Saturday contributor. I’m a collector and connector. I love shopping the internet and collecting resources for evaluation, and I love connecting people to resources. I’m not alone in this endeavor, as many others are doing similar work with their websites as well. Today, I …

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Liz Zadnik on Not Having Anything Radical to Say, Just a Desire to Show People How to Evaluate and Have Fun Doing It

Hey there!  Liz Zadnik here, Outreach Coordinator for the tip-a-day blog and sometimes Saturday poster.  As you may know from some of my previous posts, my primary job is not as an evaluator.  I like to consider myself an Evaluation Enthusiast – bringing my love of evaluation to others in the anti-sexual violence movement.   …

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