I’m Jean Eells and I’ve operated E Resources Group, my evaluation and consulting business, for 14 years. My clients are small non-profits and small local or state governmental departments and I run from 8 – 12 contracts at a time and up to 15 in a year mostly by myself, or with subcontractors. My tip …
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My name is Susan Wolfe, the owner of Susan Wolfe and Associates, LLC, a consulting firm that applies Community Psychology principles and evaluation skills to strengthening organizations and communities. Being a “Jack of All Trades” is one way to combine the skills and core competencies of evaluation and community psychology to be successful as a …
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Hello, I am Matt Feldmann, the principal researcher and owner of Goshen Education Consulting, Inc. We focus on educational evaluation for clients in Southern Illinois. Establishing a service or content niche is one way to be successful as a small independent evaluation firm. I define a niche as a clearly delineated specific opportunity for your …
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Hello, I am Leah Goldstein Moses, founder and CEO of the Improve Group and 2012 President of the Minnesota Evaluation Association. When I founded the Improve Group in 2000, I was learning to be a consultant at the same time I was refining my evaluation skills. My practice has grown from myself and a loose …
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I’m Norma Martinez-Rubin, an independent evaluation consultant with a practice focused on evaluating disease prevention and health promotion projects. Small-sized independent evaluation consultancies can offer clients the accessibility and nimbleness absent in larger organizations mired in their own bureaucracies. Our multiple roles as Chief Executive Officer, Chief Operations Officer, Chief Informational Officer, and Chief Creative …
My name is Susan Kistler, I am the American Evaluation Association’s Executive Director and regular aea365 contributor. Have you ever had a Microsoft Word document and wanted it to be online and readable – not just downloadable, but to appear as an online webpage? Twice this week, colleagues have needed a quick way to get …
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Hi. My name is A. Rae Clementz and in addition to being the co-chair of the Graduate Student and New Evaluator TIG, I am also a techie. I believe technology is of value when it helps us accomplish our goals in ways that are better, easier, and/or cheaper. I have evaluated several educational technology integration …
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My name is Lindsay Demers. I am an evaluator and quantitative methodologist at TERC in Cambridge, MA. I have worked as the lead data analyst on several projects at TERC, Lesley University, Boston College and Brandeis University. Hot Tip: You must calculate inter-rater reliability! Calculating inter-rater reliability (IRR) is of the utmost importance when using …
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My name is Melissa Cater, and I am an assistant professor and evaluation specialist at Louisiana State University AgCenter. “At its most fundamental, visual research draws on our basic capacity to interpret the world through our sense of sight.” Christopher J. Pole Visual evaluation methods leverage the power of art, photography and video as …
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Greetings! We are Manuel Voelkle from the Max Planck Institute for Human Development in Berlin (Germany) and Han Oud from Radboud University in Nijmegen (The Netherlands). We are both interested in longitudinal data analysis and are trying to advance statistical methods for the analysis of change, as well as to improve their use and communication. …
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