Stella SiWan Zimmerman on Making Evaluation Not So Scary

My name is Stella SiWan Zimmerman and I am the President of ACET Inc., an evaluation firm located in Minneapolis, Minnesota. I’ve been asked to contribute to a blog on Halloween. What a great opportunity to focus on techniques evaluators can use to take the fear out of the evaluation process. The following tips can …

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Greg Lestikow and Fatima Frank on Three Basic Evaluation Presentations

Hello, we are Greg Lestikow, CEO and Fatima Frank, Project Manager of evalû, a small consulting firm that focuses exclusively on rigorous evaluations of social and economic development initiatives.  We champion impact evaluation that maintains academic rigor but is based entirely on our clients’ need to improve strategic and operational effectiveness and increase profitability. We …

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Ann Emery on 10 Things You Didn’t Learn in School

Greetings, I’m Ann Emery from Innovation Network in Washington, DC. I also tweet and blog about evaluation. If you recently completed your graduate or undergraduate degree, congratulations! You’ve already learned some of the key elements of evaluation. However, evaluation involves more than theory, methods, and statistical formulas. Hot Tips: Here are 10 things you probably …

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Laura Sefton on Getting Started with Atlas.ti Qualitative Analysis Software

Hi! My name is Laura Sefton, Research Coordinator at the University of Massachusetts Medical School’s Center for Health Policy and Research. My colleagues and I use Atlas.ti qualitative data analysis software to facilitate our program evaluation work. Atlas is one of several software packages available to evaluators. The Center chose to purchase Atlas (1) to …

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Susan Kistler on Storify and Words of Wisdom From Evaluation 2012 Attendees

I am Susan Kistler, the American Evaluation Association’s Executive Director, and I am writing today as we wind down Evaluation 2012. Today, I wanted to let the attendees speak a bit for themselves, sharing via Twitter a bit of the buzz around the conference. Hot Tip: Storify is a free tool that allows you to …

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Sheila Robinson Kohn on Igniting the Morning!

I’m Sheila Robinson Kohn from Greece Central School District and the University of Rochester, both in Rochester, NY. I’m here in Minneapolis at AEA2012 and while most of my mornings are ignited with oatmeal and coffee, THIS morning I had the pleasure of attending and presenting at my first Ignite session. Chris Lysy, our session …

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Susan Kistler on Getting Inolved With Evaluation 2012

My name is Susan Kistler. I am the American Evaluation Association’s Executive Director, and today I am writing from the AEA annual conference in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Get Involved: The Presidential Strand kicked off with a great panel on the future of evaluation. You can get involved by posting your own prediction for evaluation’s future on …

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Stephanie Evergreen on p2i at Eval12

I’m Stephanie Evergreen and, among other things, I lead the Potent Presentations Initiative (p2i), which is a program sponsored by AEA to help you make awesome presentations. Naturally, my sweet spot is the annual conference. You have probably noticed, in the last few months, we’ve been sending you all sorts of advice about how to make your …

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Susan Kistler on Subscribing to the eLibrary

Hello! I am Susan Kistler, AEA’s Executive Director, writing to you live from Evaluation 2012 in Minneapolis. Conference week brings a flurry of additions to the AEA public eLibrary. We want to make it a little easier to know about new contributions. Rad Resource: The AEA Public eLibrary has over 1000 materials, shared peer-to-peer from …

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