Susan Kistler on Four Free Coffee Break Demonstration Recordings on International Monitoring and Evaluation

I’m Susan Kistler, the American Evaluation Association’s Executive Director, and aea365 regular Saturday contributor. Earlier this year, I announced that AEA would be hosting a public series of our normally members-only coffee break webinars. The four video series, held in July, focused on different aspects of International Monitoring and Evaluation. First, thanks to everyone who …

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BLP Week: Tom Ward on Providing Project Leadership

Howdy!  I’m Tom Ward, and I am a faculty member of the U.S. Army Command and General Staff College at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas.  In that capacity, I teach critical thinking, ethics, contracting, logistics, and “writing to persuade.” My passion, however, is knowledge management, and using KM to improve decision making.  My tip today is about …

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BLP Week: Timothy Guetterman and Delwyn Harnisch on International Collaboration for Evaluation

We are from the College of Education and Human Sciences, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, with Timothy Guetterman, the doctoral student, and Delwyn Harnisch, the Professor. Mixed methods approaches can be useful in assessing needs and readiness to learn among professional workshop participants.  Combining qualitative and quantitative methods can enhance triangulation and completeness of findings.  We recently …

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BLP Week: A. Sidiq (Sid) Ali on Managing Evaluation and Evaluation Capacity in Corporate Settings

Hello evaluators, my name is Sid Ali and I am Principal Consultant at Research and Evaluation Consulting.  I do much of my work in education and training settings, and this often takes me into the corporate, environment. I have found that there is great benefit to both the evaluator and the client in using tried …

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BLP Week: Robin Kelly on Organizational Diagnosis and Mapping

Hi, I am Robin T. Kelley and am an internal evaluator at a national nonprofit health organization that is funded by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to provide free capacity building assistance to HIV prevention organizations, health departments and their HIV planning groups. In the HIV/AIDS field, there are a number of changes …

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BLP Week: Ellen Steiner on Energy Efficient Evaluation

My name is Ellen Steiner, Director of Market Research and Evaluation at Energy Market Innovations, a research-based consultancy focused on strategic program design and evaluation for the energy efficiency industry – we work to create an energy future that is sustainable for coming generations. Lessons Learned: An increasingly common practice… In energy efficiency program evaluations, …

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BLP Week: Kate Rohrbaugh on Useful Topical Interest Group (TIG) Tools

My name is Kate Rohrbaugh and I am Co-Chair of the Business, Leadership, and Performance TIG along with Michelle Baron.  I’m a Research Team Leader at a consulting firm in Virginia leading a group studying capital project organizations and teams in the process industries.  Today I’d like to talk about the renaming of our TIG …

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Susan Kistler on an Amazing, Free, Lifelong Learning Opportunity

I am Susan Kistler, the American Evaluation Association’s Executive Director and aea365’s Saturday contributor. Although it cleared 80 degrees today, Labor Day is nearly upon us and with it the return to school. This means the return of 30 teenage boys to the dorm in which we have lived for the past 10 years, high …

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DOVP Week: Don Glass on Applying Universal Design for Learning (UDL) to Evaluation

Hi! I am Don Glass an independent education and evaluation consultant, and a former UDL Fellow at Boston College and CAST. Over the past several years I have been interested in how we can be as inclusive as possible in the gathering and analysis of data, as well as in the sharing and use of …

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DOVP Week: Bob Hughes on Evaluating Universal Design for Learning

My name is Bob Hughes, and I’m an Associate Professor of adult education at Seattle University.  I’ve been researching and evaluating Universal Design for Learning since 1995.  I find UDL to form a critical framework with which to frame my other research interests in preparation of instructors, professional development, providing equitable learning for diverse populations, …

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