Hi! I’m Sheila B. Robinson, aea365 Lead Curator and sometimes Saturday contributor. We all know (I hope!) the four basic Program Evaluation Standards – utility feasibility, propriety, and accuracy. Not familiar? You may want to start by reading this. These standards sound simple enough, right? Wrong! Turns out, there is a lot to know in …
Hi, this is Kat Athanasiades from Innovation Network. Our team is especially engaged in improving how evaluation information is communicated, and to that end we thought we would do some graphic recording at Evaluation 13! That’s me, working on the graphic recording of an Evaluation 13 session about advocacy evaluation. What is graphic recording? Graphic …
Hi! I’m Mallory Johnson, an Evaluation Specialist with the UC Davis Schools of Health Evaluation Unit. Have you been frustrated by webpages that allow you to view data in a browser, but don’t have export or download functions? Government websites in particular often post useful evaluation information in useless formats. After all, that table is …
Hello! I am Laura Beals and I am an internal evaluator at Jewish Family and Children’s Service (JF&CS). JF&CS is a large nonprofit social service agency located just outside of Boston, MA. As we are surrounded by 58 institutions of higher learning, we have many opportunities to leverage students and faculty in order to increase …
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Hi, my name is Jason Ravitz, an Independent Research and Evaluation Professional and former Director of Research for the Buck Institute for Education, where my job included evaluating project-based learning (PBL) impacts.Here is a district-level approach developed with Melissa “Missy” Rowe, Executive Director of Assessment and Research at Grand Prairie ISD in Grand Prairie, TX. …
Hi I’m Pat Campbell, president of Campbell-Kibler Associates, Inc. A couple of years ago, Eric Jolly, president of the Science Museum of Minnesota and I were wondering why, with so many evaluations of so many programs, we didn’t know more about “what works, for whom in what context”. Our conclusion—rigor is not enough. Even the …
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I’m Nicole Vicinanza, a Senior Research Associate at JBS International, and a member of the AEA Board. As part of our work on the board, we seek input from AEA members and other stakeholders so that we can establish policies that help AEA as an association better succeed in our mission, attain our vision and …
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I’m Sheila B. Robinson, aea365’s Lead Curator and sometimes Saturday contributor. You’ve probably read about AEA’s LinkedIn page for fabulous free discussion about anything evaluation. Today, I want to highlight one particular discussion that has sparked a good deal of participation from a diverse group of evaluators. Terminology has always been a sticky point for …
Sheila B. Robinson on Theory of Change vs Logic Model – A LinkedIn Discussion Read More »
Greetings from Washington, D.C.! My name is Kwamé A. McIntosh, member of the American Evaluation Association’s Graduate Education Diversity Internship (GEDI) 2012-2013 cohort. Today, I am eager to share with you my experience that I had as an Assistant Education Evaluator for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Association’s (NOAA) Office of Education (OED). As a …
Hello! I am Michelle Corbett, alumna of the AEA Graduate Education Diversity Internship (GEDI) program’s 2012-2013 cohort. For my internship, I worked at the Planning Council for Health & Human Services in Milwaukee, WI. A non-profit, community-based organization, the Planning Council offers planning, research, and program evaluation services to a wide range of organizations and …
