DOVP Week: Jennifer Sullivan Sulewski on Data Sources for Tracking Outcomes of People with and without Disabilities

My name is Jennifer Sullivan Sulewski and I am a Research Associate at the Institute for Community Inclusion (ICI), University of Massachusetts Boston and past co-chair of AEA’s Disabilities and Other Vulnerable Populations (DOVP) TIG. At ICI, we do a lot of work involving analysis of publicly available datasets to determine outcomes and trends for …

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DOVP Week: Pat Campbell on Diversity, Evaluation, and Better Data

I’m Pat Campbell, president of Campbell-Kibler Associates, Inc.  Under NSF funding, Eric Jolly, president of the Science Museum of  Minnesota and I, with the help of a lot of friends, have been generating research-based tips, such as those below, to improve the accuracy of data collection, the quality of the analysis and the appropriateness of …

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DOVP Week: Linda Thurston on Evaluating Teacher Performance Must Include Students from Vulnerable Populations

Hello from Kansas, the nation’s breadbasket!  I am Linda Thurston, Associate Dean of the College of Education at Kansas State University and long-time member of AEA. I am the 2013 co-chair of AEA’s Disabilities and Other Vulnerable Populations (DOVP) TIG.  DOVP welcomes you to a week of aea365 articles focused on information and resources to help …

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Susan Kistler on Three Free (+1) Resources for Communications Quality

I am Susan Kistler, the American Evaluation Association’s Executive Director Emeritus and monthly aea365 Saturday contributor. Today we’re talking presentation excellence. If you are a regular reader, you’ve already heard about AEA’s Potent Presentation Initiative (p2i). Aimed at improving presentation quality at its annual conference and beyond, p2i is the homebase for all things presentation …

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Donna Fujimoto-Saka on Evaluation Capacity Building: Top Five Lessons Learned From Technical Assistance Efforts

My name is Donna Fujimoto-Saka, an evaluation specialist with the System Planning and Improvement Section (SPIS) within the Hawaii State Department of Education since 2007. In 2011, the internal evaluators were asked to support the evaluation needs of the Hawaii’s Race to the Top (RTTT) grant.  This post summarizes some of the lessons that I …

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Lisa R. Holliday on Using Microsoft Access to Code Qualitative Data

I am Lisa R. Holliday, an Evaluation Associate at The Evaluation Group in Columbia, SC.  I was on an evaluation team that recently completed a needs assessment in a large rural school district.  On one survey, there were 3,277 student responses to two open-ended questions. Initially, I planned to take a sample, rather than analyze …

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Linda Cabral and Laura Sefton on So many to choose from: How to Select Organizations for a Site Visit

Greetings. We are Linda Cabral and Laura Sefton from the University of Massachusetts Medical School, Center for Health Policy and Research. We are part of a multi-disciplinary team evaluating the Massachusetts Patient Centered Medical Home Initiative (MA PCMHI), a 3-year, statewide, multi-site demonstration project engaging 46 primary care practices in organizational transformation to adopt this …

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James Coyle on Use of the Potent Presentations Initiative (p2i) in Evaluation Contexts Outside of the AEA Conference

My name is James Coyle and I am the Director of Performance and Evaluation at the Interior Health Authority; I’m also involved in the Evaluation Mentoring Canada initiative and an active evaluation podcaster. Even though the AEA annual conference is right around the corner, I want to tell you how I’ve used AEA resources outside …

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PD Presenters: Michele Tarsilla on a new Framework for Evaluation Capacity Development

Hi All, my name is Michele Tarsilla and I am an Independent Evaluation Advisor and Capacity Development Specialist with extensive experience in designing, conducting and teaching evaluation in nearly thirty countries. I also serve as Program Chair of the International and Cross-Cultural Evaluation TIG at AEA. Having worked on Evaluation Capacity Development (ECD) and having …

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PD Presenters: Bob Kahle on Digital Qualitative Methods

Hello! I am Bob Kahle and I have operated Kahle Research Solutions for nearly 20 years. I am a program evaluator and specialist in employing qualitative methods. I have written and trained extensively on managing difficult behaviors in groups (see Dominators, Cynics, and Wallflowers: Practical Strategies to Moderate Meaningful Focus Groups), but more recently have …

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