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AKEN Week: Amelia Ruerup on Understanding Indigenous Evaluation in an Alaskan Context

4 Comments / Indigenous Peoples in Evaluation / May 13, 2013 May 13, 2013

Hello! My name is Amelia Ruerup, I am Tlingit, originally from Hoonah, Alaska although I currently reside in Fairbanks, Alaska. I have been working part-time in evaluation for over a year at Evaluation Research Associates and have spent approximately five years developing my understanding of Indigenous Evaluation through the mentorship and guidance of Sandy Kerr, …

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AKEN Week: Corrie Whitmore Introducing the Alaska Evaluation Network

1 Comment / Uncategorized / May 12, 2013 May 12, 2013

I’m Corrie Whitmore, president of the Alaska Evaluation Network (AKEN) and an internal evaluator working for Southcentral Foundation (SCF). SCF is an Alaska Native owned and operated health care organization serving approximately 60,000 Alaska Native and American Indian people living in Anchorage, the Matanuska-Susitna Valley, and 60 rural villages in the Anchorage Service Unit. SCF …

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Susan Kistler on the AEA/BetterEvaluation Webinar Series and Making the Most of YouTube

I am Susan Kistler, the American Evaluation Association’s Executive Director and aea365’s regular Saturday contributor. Guess what just moved into the #1 spot for the most read aea365 article of all time? The April 6, 2013 post announcing the collaboration with BetterEvaluation to produce a series of publicly available Coffee Break Webinars! We’re well under …

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Ed Eval Week: Anne Marshall on Gearing up to Evaluate in the Age of the Common Core

Leave a Comment / Prek-12 Educational Evaluation / May 10, 2013 May 10, 2013

My name is Anne Marshall, Director of Research and Evaluation for the Center for Collaborative Education. PreK-12 education and educational evaluation are a-buzz with phrases like “21st century skills,” “college and career ready,” and, of course, “Common Core State Standards (CCSS).” With these new changes, evaluators may be feeling the same initiative fatigue that many …

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Ed Eval Week: Silvana Bialosiewicz on Tips for Collecting Valid and Reliable Data from Children

3 Comments / Prek-12 Educational Evaluation / May 9, 2013 May 9, 2013

Hi! I’m Silvana Bialosiewicz, an advanced doctoral student at Claremont Graduate University (CGU) and Senior Research Associate at the Claremont Evaluation Center. My goal as an applied researcher is to help develop and disseminate “best-practices” for high-quality evaluation of programs that serve children. Today I’d like to share some strategies for collecting valid and reliable …

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Ed Eval Week: Susan Shebby and Sheila Arens on Using Evaluation to Support the Sustainability of District Grant Initiatives

Leave a Comment / Prek-12 Educational Evaluation / May 8, 2013 May 11, 2013

Hello. We are Susan Shebby and Sheila Arens, evaluators from Mid-continent Research for Education and Learning (McREL). In this post, we want to share our experience with a district working to implement a federal grant in two schools. When the grant was awarded, it received a great deal of attention throughout the district and community. …

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Ed Eval Week: Kelly Murphy on Sensitively Measuring Program Impact

Leave a Comment / Prek-12 Educational Evaluation / May 7, 2013 May 7, 2013

Hi! I am Kelly Murphy, a Doctoral Candidate in Applied Developmental Psychology at Claremont Graduate University and a new Member-At-Large in the PreK-12 Educational Evaluation TIG. Over the past five years I have had the pleasure of working on an evaluation of a large multi-site out-of-school time (OST) program that serves over 15,000 K-12 students. …

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Ed Eval Week: Shelly Engelman and Brandi Campbell on The Advantages of Using Retrospective Surveys

4 Comments / Prek-12 Educational Evaluation / May 6, 2013 May 6, 2013

Hi! This is Shelly Engelman and Brandi Campbell with The Findings Group, LLC, a private evaluation firm in Atlanta, GA. Evaluators typically implement pre/post surveys to assess programmatic impact on participants. However, pre/post surveys are plagued by challenges: 1. Participants have difficulty responding to the “pre” survey items because they have little knowledge of the …

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Ed Eval Week: Tiffany Berry on Resources for Educational Evaluators

Leave a Comment / Prek-12 Educational Evaluation / May 5, 2013 May 5, 2013

Hello! My name is Tiffany Berry and I am a research associate professor at Claremont Graduate University, associate director of the Claremont Evaluation Center, and the chair for the PreK-12 Educational Evaluation TIG. Welcome to our 3rd annual sponsored AEA365 week, in honor of Teacher Appreciation Week. For those who are unfamiliar with our TIG, …

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Sheila B. Robinson on Being an AEA365 Sponsored Weeks Archaeologist!

Leave a Comment / Uncategorized / May 4, 2013 June 20, 2014

Hello! Sheila B. Robinson here, guest posting for Susan Kistler, our regular Saturday contributor. I work in PK12 education at Greece Central School District, and in higher education at the University of Rochester’s Warner School of Education. As aea365’s current Lead Volunteer Curator, I’ve had the pleasure of working with a number of groups – …

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