We are David J. Bernstein, Senior Study Director with Westat, an employee-owned research and evaluation company and Valerie Caracelli, Senior Social Science Analyst at the U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO). We are honored to be the Local Arrangements Working Group (LAWG) Co-Chairs for the upcoming 2013 AEA Conference. The LAWG is a group of 74 …
I am Brian Yoder, Director of Assessment, Evaluation and Institutional Research at the American Society for Engineering Education, a professional association located in Washington, D.C. I also serve as President Elect for the Washington Evaluators, a local affiliate of AEA. I’ve lived and worked in D.C. for the past seven years working as a contractor, …
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We are Bernadette Wright and Ladel Lewis. As evaluators, we often get into the habit of noticing the merit and worth of others’ activities everywhere we go. We may question the effectiveness of marketing materials we see, customer service processes we experience at local stores, surveys we’re asked to complete, and so on. Yet sometimes …
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Hello! I am Jeff Williams, PhD Candidate in Public Policy and Public Administration at the George Washington University, member of the evaluation team at CRDF Global, and member of the Washington Evaluators. Today I’ll be sharing tips and tricks about writing surveys for communities that have English as a second language, or which don’t use …
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Greetings, I’m Ann Emery from Innovation Network in Washington, DC. I also blog at www.emeryevaluation.com and tweet from @annkemery. DC is a great hub for evaluation! We’re home to the Washington Evaluators, an AEA affiliate, and we’re also close to the Baltimore Area Evaluators and the Eastern Evaluation Research Society. I’m thrilled that the #Eval13 …
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I am Herb Baum, Senior Director of Program Evaluation at the Data Recognition Corporation in the Washington DC office and looking forward to welcoming you here in October. For the past decade I have attended the AEA conference, attended some of the workshops and presented at many of them. Here is my advice to both …
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Happy Saturday aea365 readers! My name is Susan Kistler and I am the Executive Director Emeritus at the American Evaluation Association (AEA) and a regular contributor to aea365. We try not to write very often about programs that are for AEA members-only but today I hoped to tell you about one that might entice some …
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I am Vardhani Ratnala and work as a freelance consultant in Monitoring and Evaluation. In this post, I would like share my experience of presenting evaluation findings. Following an evaluation field visit, the findings are shared with the project management/implementing team. Quite often, when the findings are negative, it ruffles egos and leads to a …
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Hello, fellow aea365ers! My name is Carla Hillerns and I manage research projects in the Center for Health Policy & Research’s Office of Survey Research at the University of Massachusetts Medical School. Evaluation pumps me up because it offers the opportunity to discover ways to improve processes and results. To get there, my work relies …
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Shirah Hecht here again, with a second method to move qualitative data efficiently from analysis to presentation using common desktop software. Outline mode in Microsoft Word allows you to place text under headers and sub-headers that can be expanded, collapsed, and re-ordered – taking all of the text, when you move a header. With this …
