AEA365 – Page 389 – A Tip-a-Day by and for Evaluators

Kerry Bruce on Taking Your Data Collection to the Field with Mobile Phone Technology

Leave a Comment / Integrating Technology into Evaluation / July 18, 2013 July 27, 2013

Hello, I am Kerry Bruce, Director of Results and Measurement at Pact and I’m currently based in Madagascar and support Pact programs in Africa, Asia and Eastern Europe. In 2012 we started to roll out the use of mobile technology in our programs including evaluation. This third post in the series on how to get started with mobile phone technology …

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Anna Jo Perry and Jens J. Hansen on Computer Aided Evaluation Reports

Leave a Comment / Data Visualization and Reporting / July 17, 2013 July 25, 2013

We are Anna Jo Perry a senior lecturer in Early Childhood Education at the Manukau Institute of Technology in Auckland New Zealand and Jens Hansen, Director of the Woodhill Park Research Retreat, a place that helps postgraduate thesis candidates to successfully complete their research. Although AEA365 contributions often focus on conducting evaluations across a range …

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Bryon Welch and Rakesh Mohan on Interactive Presentation of Evaluation Reports

4 Comments / Data Visualization and Reporting / July 16, 2013 July 16, 2013

Greetings from beautiful Boise, Idaho! We are Bryon Welch (principal evaluator) and Rakesh Mohan (director) at the Idaho Legislature’s Office of Performance Evaluations. Working for a state legislature, we are always trying to come up with different ideas on how to effectively present our analysis. Because our reports are used by policymakers whose attention is …

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Michelle Baron on Building a Culture of Assessment

14 Comments / Assessment in Higher Education / July 15, 2013 July 15, 2013

Well, hello there! I’m Michelle Baron, Academic Assessment Specialist at Utah Valley University, and an Independent Evaluation Strategist. I’d like to share some tricks of the trade with you in building a culture of assessment in higher education. As an evaluator, the main idea for me is helping people understand what works, why it works, …

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June Gothberg on How Potent Presentations Changed my Presentation Worldview

3 Comments / Data Visualization and Reporting, Disabilities and Underrepresented Populations / July 14, 2013 July 14, 2013

Greetings this is June Gothberg, Senior Researcher at Western Michigan University. A few years ago, I became involved with AEA’s Potent Presentations Initiative and worked with Stephanie Evergreen to include universal design principles. I currently hold a position on the p2i advisory board. What I didn’t anticipate when I started working with the group is …

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p2i: Stephanie Evergreen on David Fetterman’s Fab Five Reboot

2 Comments / Collaborative, Participatory and Empowerment Evaluation, Data Visualization and Reporting / July 13, 2013 January 16, 2016

Hey all, I’m Stephanie Evergreen and I run AEA’s Potent Presentations Initiative and eLearning Initiatives. In a marriage of those two programs, we launched a new project called the Fab Five Reboot. I took five slides each from five of our best eStudy webinar presenters and revised them to better connect the content to a …

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Cultural Competence Week: Leah Neubauer on Resources and Updates from the Practice Committee

Leave a Comment / International and Cross-cultural Evaluation, Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgender Issues, Multiethnic Issues in Evaluation / July 12, 2013 July 12, 2013

My name is Leah Christina Neubauer. I am the President of the Chicagoland Evaluation Association and the Program Manager and an Instructor in the MPH Program at DePaul University. Today, I am writing to extend three updates from the Practice committee of the AEA Public Statement on Cultural Competence in Evaluation Dissemination Working Group. We …

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Cultural Competence Week: Melanie Hwalek on Cultural Competence Dissemination in Policy

Leave a Comment / International and Cross-cultural Evaluation, Multiethnic Issues in Evaluation / July 11, 2013 July 11, 2013

I am Melanie Hwalek, CEO of SPEC Associates and the LGBT TIG’s representative to the AEA Public Statement on Cultural Competence in Evaluation Dissemination Working Group. I accepted responsibility for spearheading the Policy Subgroup of the Workgroup. In this role, I’m responsible for coordinating our Workgroup’s efforts to infuse the Cultural Competency Statement into policy …

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Cultural Competence Week: Tamara Bertrand Jones on Essential Tools for Training Culturally Responsive Evaluators

1 Comment / International and Cross-cultural Evaluation, Multiethnic Issues in Evaluation / July 10, 2013 July 10, 2013

I’m Tamara Bertrand Jones, an Assistant Professor of Higher Education at Florida State University, and on the Training Committee of the AEA Public Statement on Cultural Competence in Evaluation Dissemination Working Group. We are working on disseminating some critical lessons, such as the following. Emphasis on developing not only evaluation competency, but the skills to …

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Cultural Competence Week: Karen Anderson on Cultural Competence in Evaluation Resources

Leave a Comment / International and Cross-cultural Evaluation, Multiethnic Issues in Evaluation / July 9, 2013 July 9, 2013

Hello! My name is Karen Anderson, AEA’s former Diversity Coordinator intern. After supporting the Cultural Competence in Evaluation Dissemination Working Group for over a year I became pretty invested in learning more about cultural competence in evaluation. I wish I magically received culturally competent evaluation resources by default, but I had to find them the …

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