My name is Ariana Weld and I am slowly but surely writing my doctoral thesis. I want to tell you about Scrivener. Rad Resource – Scrivener http://www.literatureandlatte.com/scrivener.php: According to its website “Scrivener is a powerful content-generation tool for writers that allows you to concentrate on composing and structuring long and difficult documents. While it gives …
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Chad Green here on the utility of Costa and Garmston’s maturing outcomes map from yesterday’s post. If you revisit this colorful framework, you will notice that the nested concepts form a learning continuum, ranging from concrete to abstract, similar to the outcomes in a logic model. However, if you dabble in cognitive neuroscience like myself, …
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Hello! We are Sheila Robinson Kohn from Greece Central School District and University of Rochester in NY, and Chad Green, from Loudoun County Public Schools in northern VA. We’re program co-chairs for the PreK-12 Educational Evaluation TIG and we welcome you to our sponsored AEA365 week, in honor of Teacher Appreciation Week. We’d like to …
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My name is Manolya Tanyu and I am a researcher at American Institutes for Research (AIR), a behavioral and social science research organization to support education, educational assessment, health, international development, and work and training. My former organization, Learning Point Associates recently merged with AIR. Lessons Learned: In evaluating afterschool programs, primarily 21st Century Community …
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Good afternoon! Susan Kistler here, AEA’s Executive Director and regular Saturday contributor. I’m posting a little later in the day than usual for those who receive aea365 in real time. Why? On Friday, my husband and I finally completed the purchase of a small cottage in Provincetown on Cape Cod. We’ve been looking for a …
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I’m Annelise Carleton-Hug, principal evaluator of Trillium Associates, a small evaluation company with a focus on environmental program evaluation. I’m also the Chair of the Environmental Program Evaluation TIG and I invite you to learn more about our TIG by visiting the EPE TIG website. Hot Tip: Consider this aea365 post a conversation starter that …
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I am Arlene Hopkins, an educator and architect, and I provide consulting services in evaluation. Extending my work beyond education, libraries, land use and facilities, I am interested in standards, metrics and tools applied to environmental sustainability programs and projects. Recently I have been focusing on evaluation standards, metrics and practices within the emerging subfield …
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Hi, I am Amy Germuth, President and Founder of EvalWorks, LLC and blogger at EvalThought. So you are an evaluation consultant. You evaluate programs/projects as part of an evaluation consultancy you own, co-own, or work for. But how often do you evaluate your own business? Hot Tip #1: Think logic model. Do you have a …
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Hello AEA! This is Tamara Williams and Ciara Zachary, and we are members of the seventh cohort for the Graduate Education Diversity Internship (GEDI) Program. Tamara is a doctoral student at the University of Colorado-Boulder in the department of Sociology. Ciara is doctoral candidate at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health in the department …
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I am Stuart Henderson, Associate Director of Evaluation for the Clinical and Translational Science Center at the University of California, Davis. I have found that incorporating visual representations of concepts and data has helped me become a better evaluator and communicator. A software program that allows me to efficiently create visuals is SmartDraw. Although you …
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