We are Marty Henry and Keith Murray, lead evaluators for M.A. Henry Consulting, LLC in Fairfax, Virginia, and St. Louis, Missouri. The issues noted here stem largely from math and science education program evaluations we have done, but they apply to many evaluation contexts. The federal funding programs supporting these projects aim at improving teacher …
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Hello, I’m Norma Martinez-Rubin, an independent program evaluator, public health practitioner, and occasional trainer and lecturer. This post is about working solo vs. on subcontracts. Lessons Learned: As an independent consultant, working solo presents challenging opportunities to apply experiences and formal training that meet client expectations. Doing so affords you additional experience for even greater …
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Hello, I am Matt Feldmann, the principal researcher and owner of Goshen Education Consulting, Inc. (http://www.goshenedu.com). My company focuses on educational evaluation and data support for clients in Southern Illinois. As a company of one I have to do a lot of balancing (aka “hat wearing”) to support the many activities that go with coordinating …
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Hello! I’m Carlisle Levine, an independent evaluator specializing in organizational and advocacy evaluation, evaluation systems and evaluation capacity building. Having worked for international non-governmental organizations and the U.S. government, I am relatively new to consulting. One of my biggest concerns in making the shift was finding community. Lessons Learned: The Importance of Community Very quickly …
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Hi there! My name is Gail Barrington from the Barrington Research Group, Inc. I’m an independent evaluation consultant and I have a perspective to share with you. The first time I attended an AEA conference, I had one burning question in mind. Should I take the risk and go out on my own? I attended …
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Hi! I’m Sheila B. Robinson, aea365’s Lead Curator and once monthly Saturday contributor. With Evaluation 2013 a mere one week in the past, evaluation bloggers are all over it recounting, recapturing, reliving, and reflecting on conference courses and confabulations. Whether you made it to Washington, DC to experience the conference live, or watched your #eval13 …
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Hi, I’m Rob Horowitz. I do research, evaluation and consulting, primarily in arts education. Maybe it’s because I’m a musician, but I often think of dissonance and consonance in my work. You can hear the beats of dissonance, if you carefully listen to the overtones of any group of tones. Dissonance in music provides tension …
My name is Steven Holochwost, and for the last 8 years I have worked for WolfBrown, an arts and cultural research and management consultancy. In my role as Senior Researcher, I help design and implement evaluations of arts education programs for children. Lessons Learned: I imagine that the circumstances of my work are similar to …
Hi, I am Timothy S. Brophy, professor of music education and Director of Institutional Assessment at the University of Florida in Gainesville, where I manage the assessment of over 500 assessment units at the university. As a music educator and an evaluator, I am interested in exploring the fundamental measurement issues related to the assessment …
Hi. I am Don Glass, the Co-Chair of the Arts, Culture, and Audiences TIG, and curator of ACA week on AEA365. In several of my recent arts education evaluations, building assessment capacity through the design of local tasks, rubrics, and scoring procedures have been at the center of my technical assistance and program recommendations. Good …
