AEA365 – Page 367 – A Tip-a-Day by and for Evaluators

Dan McDonnell on 3 Tools to Make Reading and Sharing On Twitter Even Easier

Leave a Comment / Uncategorized / February 22, 2014 February 22, 2014

Hello, my name is Dan McDonnell and I am a Community Manager for the American Evaluation Association. As someone who uses Twitter extensively both in a personal and professional capacity, I have found that, while powerful, the basic client is occasionally lacking in functionality. In this post, I intend to provide a brief overview of a …

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Veena Pankaj and Kat Athanasiades on Coalition Assessment: Approaches for Measuring Capacity and Impact

Leave a Comment / Data Visualization and Reporting / February 21, 2014 February 21, 2014

Greetings fellow evaluators! We are Veena Pankaj and Kat Athanasiades from Innovation Network. Over the past few years we’ve been evaluating coalition capacity and we are excited to share our learnings with you. Building and activating coalitions is an increasingly common strategy in the social sector, especially when working towards advocacy and policy change. Research …

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Molly Hamm on Translation in Cross-Cultural Research

Leave a Comment / Multiethnic Issues in Evaluation / February 20, 2014 February 21, 2014

Greetings! I’m Molly Hamm, the Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning Coordinator at The DREAM Project, an educational non-profit organization in the Dominican Republic. Working in a multilingual environment, I must continuously switch back and forth between languages as I complete my daily tasks. From elaborating evaluation plans and designing research instruments to facilitating focus groups and …

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Audrey Roerrer on Google Tools for Multi-site Evaluation

1 Comment / Integrating Technology into Evaluation / February 19, 2014 February 21, 2014

Hi, I’m Audrey Rorrer and I’m an evaluator for the Center for Education Innovation in the College of Computing and Informatics at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte, where several projects I evaluate operate at multiple locations across the country. Multisite evaluations are loaded with challenges, such as data collection integrity, evaluation training for …

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Alexey Kuzmin on Locating Evaluation Consultants Outside Your Home Country

1 Comment / International and Cross-cultural Evaluation / February 18, 2014 February 17, 2014

My name is Alexey Kuzmin and I am the President of the Process Consulting Company based in Moscow, Russia. Lesson Learned: I often work internationally and believe that the best (if not the only) way to conduct a quality evaluation outside your home country is to involve local (national) consultants. Local specialists have an in-depth …

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Monika Mitra and Lauren Smith on Conducting a Health Needs Assessment of People with Disabilities

Leave a Comment / Disabilities and Underrepresented Populations, Health Evaluation, Needs Assessment / February 17, 2014 February 16, 2014

Hi, we are Monika Mitra and Lauren Smith from the Disability, Health, and Employment Policy unit in the Center for Health Policy and Research at the University of Massachusetts Medical School. Our research is focused on health disparities between people with and without disabilities. Evaluating a Population of People with Disabilities In collaboration with the …

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Caren Oberg on Using Tablets for Data Collection

2 Comments / Integrating Technology into Evaluation / February 16, 2014 February 17, 2014

My name is Caren Oberg and I am the Principal and Owner of Oberg Research. I am a proud late adopter. Proof? I still use a paper calendar and have Moleskin notebooks dating back years. But I have joyfully embraced tablet applications for data collection. The applications below, not to mention many others, have made …

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Dan McDonnell on Keyboard Shortcuts and Other Advanced Twitter Features

Leave a Comment / Uncategorized / February 15, 2014 February 15, 2014

My name is Dan McDonnell and I am a Community Manager at the American Evaluation Association (AEA). For today’s Saturday post, we’ll be covering a few advanced Twitter tips for evaluators: features that fly under the radar enough to be considered ‘secret!’ Rad Resource: Hidden Keyboard Shortcuts Find yourself without a computer mouse or working …

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STEM TIG Week: Susan Eriksson on the Education of Stakeholders

3 Comments / STEM Education and Training / February 13, 2014 February 9, 2014

Hi, I’m Susan Eriksson, a geologist and science educator reformed as an evaluator for science-related programs. I write from my experience as a scientist turned evaluator with many years of working with evaluators, doing my own internal evaluation, and now doing evaluation for others. Lesson Learned: It seems that many people really ‘don’t get’ evaluation. …

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