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Bryon Welch and Rakesh Mohan on Interactive Presentation of Evaluation Reports

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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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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Nichole Stewart on Data Science for Little Data and Big Data in Program Evaluation

Greetings! I’m Nichole Stewart, a doctoral student in UMBC’s Public Policy program in the evaluation and analytical methods track. I currently work as an analyst, data manager, and evaluator across a few different sites including Baltimore Integration Partnership, Baltimore Workforce Funders Collaborative, and Carson Research Consulting Inc. Lessons Learned: The Growing Role of Data Science …

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Susan Kistler on Derived Variables and AEA Member Density by State

I am Susan Kistler, the American Evaluation Association’s Executive Director and aea365’s regular Saturday contributor. Last week, at the Minnesota Evaluation Studies Institute, we had a discussion about when to use derived variables. Lessons Learned – What is a derived variable? Derived variables are variables that are computed based on other variables. We began by …

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Susan Kistler on the Top 10 aea365 Articles of 2012

I’m Susan Kistler, the American Evaluation Association’s Executive Director and regular aea365 Saturday contributor. Last year, about this time we looked back on the top aea365 posts of 2011, a year where the most read list reflected a number of tech tools. I ended the list with “I can’t wait to see what 2012 brings!” …

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Susan Kistler on Fiverr and Free Coffee Break Webinars and an Amazing Cup of Cappuccino

I am Susan Kistler, the American Evaluation Association’s Executive Director and aea365’s regular Saturday contributor. Last week, I wrote about 25 low-cost/no-cost tech tools for Data Visualization and Reporting. Here’s a bit more about one of them. Rad Resource – Fiverr: On fiverr, people list things that they will do for $5. Lots of it …

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Susan Kistler on 25 Low-cost/no-cost Tech Tools for Data Visualization and Reporting

I am Susan Kistler, the Executive Director of the American Evaluation Association and the owner of iMeasureMedia. I usually don’t mention the latter on aea365, but today I want to be clear that I’m wearing my iMeasureMedia hat since AEA does not endorse particular products or services. Last week, at Evaluation 2012, I gave a …

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Susan Kistler on The Future of Evaluation: 5 Predictions (building on 10 others!)

I’m Susan Kistler, AEA’s Executive Director, and this week John Gargani reflected on what evaluation might look like in 10 years (go ahead, click away – it’s worth a read – but come back!). Lessons [to be] Learned looking into a hazy crystal ball for what evaluation might look like 10 years hence, I wanted …

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Marion O’Reilly-Stanhauer on NWEA’s Data Gallery and Standardized Educational Testing

My name is Marion O’Reilly-Stanhauer. I am an independent evaluation consultant focusing on out-of-school time (OST) programs such as after-school enrichment, tutoring, and summer success. The programs I work with are impacted by standardized testing in their states, often due to calls for additional OST support when standardized tests indicate low proficiency levels or the …

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Susan Kistler on Training and Data Visualization

Susan Kistler here, the American Evaluation Association’s Executive Director. Excited to connect after a long, but very productive, week. I spent the last week in Philadelphia training with Stephen McDaniel, author of Rapid Graphs with Tableau and SAS for Dummies, striving to up my game around data visualization and reporting. Lesson Learned: The question you …

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