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

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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Cultural Competence Week: Dominica McBride on Cultural Competence and aea365

“Beauty is unity in variety.” (Samuel Coleridge) I am Dominica McBride, CEO of Become, Inc. and member of the AEA Public Statement on Cultural Competence in Evaluation Dissemination Working Group. The above quote is one of the core lessons I have been reminded of through my work on this task force and is quite germane …

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Cultural Competence Week: Cindy Crusto and Osman Ozturgut on the Re-Introduction to AEA Public Statement on Cultural Competence in Evaluation Dissemination Working Group and Reminder to Examine the “Self”

Hi, we’re Cindy Crusto, associate professor, Yale University School of Medicine and Osman Özturgut, assistant professor,University of the Incarnate Word. We are members of the AEA Public Statement on Cultural Competence in Evaluation Dissemination Working Group.  We write to remind you of the purpose of the Working Group and the importance of acknowledging the “self” …

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Dan McDonnell on Evaluating your Social Media Program

My name is Dan McDonnell, and I am a Community Manager at the American Evaluation Association. For me, social media is life, both personally and professionally. I met my wife on Twitter and had a live tweet feed and hashtag at our wedding. But what I love most about social media is the data: I …

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AHE TIG Week: Pat Barlow and Tiffany Smith on Higher Education Assessment in Graduate Medical Education

Hi, this is Pat and Tiffany. We are doctoral candidates in Evaluation, Statistics, and Measurement who work for the Graduate School of Medicine at the University of Tennessee. We completely redesigned a statistics and epidemiology curriculum where none of the previous instructors had formally outlined what they wanted their residents to learn. We not only …

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AHE TIG Week: Tamara Bertrand Jones on Creating an Assessment Culture

Hello, I’m Tamara Bertrand Jones. I’m an Assistant Professor of Higher Education at Florida State University and a former Director of Research and Evaluation in Student Affairs. Assessment in higher education has largely been used for external accountability. Divisions and departments can use these external mandates for internal improvement and make assessment part of daily …

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AHE TIG Week: Nina Potter on Sharing Assessment Data

My name is Nina Potter and I am the Director of Assessment for the College of Education at San Diego State University.  As the Director of Assessment, a large part of my job entails working with faculty and administrators in implementing program assessments plans from start to finish – designing assessments to measure program outcomes, …

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AHE TIG Week: Sean McKitrick on Accountability Demands for Assessment in Higher Education

My name is Sean McKitrick, Vice President with the Middle States Commission on Higher Education. In higher education settings, “assessment” is a term that can mean both institutional research and student learning assessment and usually refers to institutional efforts to provide accurate data and reports to oversight bodies such as federal and state governments or …

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AHE TIG Week: Mwarumba Mwavita, Katye Perry, and Sarah Wilkey on How Do You Conduct an Evaluation in a Fluid, Ever Changing Ecology Like Higher Education?

Our names are Mwarumba Mwavita, Katye Perry, and Sarah Wilkey. We are faculty and evaluators in the Center for Educational Research and Evaluation at Oklahoma State University. Higher education has constantly been engaged in the development, revamping, and implementation of programs. Often these changes result in reorganizations of existing programs and contribute to a dynamic …

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AHE TIG Week: Mende Davis on Measuring Progress in Higher Education: Combining Binary Outcomes

I am Mende Davis, co-chair of the Assessment in Higher Education TIG and research assistant professor in psychology at the University of Arizona.  I’ve been involved in a variety of higher education evaluations in Minnesota and Arizona. Student progress in college is usually measured by a series of dichotomous variables; completing 12 credits a semester, …

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