I am Jenny Jones, member of AEA’s Public Statement on Cultural Competence in Evaluation (the Statement) Dissemination Working Group. Over the past five years, AEA has honored Asa G. Hilliard’s legacy through an annual Think Tank. The Fifth Annual Asa G. Hilliard III Think Tank on Relational Ecosystems explored how professional roles and relationships can …
I am Melanie Hwalek, CEO of SPEC Associates and a member of AEA’s Cultural Competence Statement Dissemination Core Workgroup. My focus within the Workgroup is to help identify ways to disseminate the Statement and integrate its contents into evaluation policy. AEA’s Think Tank: Adoption of the AEA Public Statement on Cultural Competence in Evaluation: Moving …
My name is Cindy Crusto, and I am an associate professor at Yale University School of Medicine and chair of the AEA Public Statement on Cultural Competence in Evaluation Dissemination Working Group. Today, I summarize and reflect on the Hindsight is 20/20: Reflecting on Missed Opportunities, Missteps, and Successes in Attending to Culture and Context …
Hi, I’m Dominica McBride, President of The HELP Institute, and member of the AEA Public Statement on Cultural Competence Dissemination Working Group. The Working Group has been hard at work spreading the word about the Statement and its contents. One of the ways we did this was through conference presentations on various areas that the …
My name is Susan Kistler. I am the American Evaluation Association’s Executive Director and aea365’s regular Saturday Contributor. Today, we’re talking all things LinkedIn! Rad Resource – AEA’s LinkedIn Group: AEA’s LinkedIn Community has over 9000 subscribers from around the world and is open to anyone with an interest in evaluation. It’s free (always worth …
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Jean King and Laura Pejsa, Minnesota Evaluation Studies Institute (MESI), here, with broad smiles on our faces. We are the proud coaches who are wrapping up this week of posts written by our creative student consultants about ways to evaluate a conference (using exit surveys of Ignite sessions, network visualizing, Twitter, and video clips). Progressive …
Hi, we’re Anne Schwalbe, Keith Miller, and Michelle Gensinger, graduate students in the Evaluation Studies Program at the University of Minnesota. We chose Twitter as a platform for exploring creative evaluation methods at the AEA Annual Conference. These are the questions we hope to answer with our analysis: How was Twitter used during the conference? …
Hi! Our names are Kirsten Anderson, Anika Taylor, and Tatyana Venegas Swanson. We are students from the University of Minnesota who were tasked with designing an innovative method of evaluating the AEA Conference. Originally we wanted to display the connections that formed between individuals over the course of the conference. However, due to time constraints …
Hello! We are Hanife Cakici, Christopher Pleasants, and Shipi Kankane from the Minnesota Evaluation Studies Institute (MESI) at the University of Minnesota. We were a part of the team of conference evaluators for Evaluation 2012 in Minneapolis. We asked conference participants to select a question from a menu, and videoed their responses to be shared …
Hello, this is Hannah Appelbaum, Brittany Edwards, Andy Grewell, and Jessamay Thompson. We are the team of graduate students that evaluated the Ignite talks (http://igniteshow.com/) at this year’s AEA conference. Because they were a new feature this year, we chose to evaluate these talks in order to assess their effectiveness for inclusion in future conferences. …
