Craig Wiles on Using Tableau for Data Exploration

Hi, I’m Craig Wiles, Senior Consultant at Public Sector Consultants in Lansing, Michigan. I provide research and evaluation services for clients in health and human services, education and the environment. I am sharing a tip on how to use Tableau as part of a data exploration process with a group of stakeholders. To begin, I …

Craig Wiles on Using Tableau for Data Exploration Read More »

Kelly Hannum on Leadership Development for Evaluators

I’m Kelly Hannum. I’ve been evaluating leadership development programs for almost two decades. I am convinced that effective leaders and effective evaluators have similar mindsets and employ similar skills.  I encourage leaders to think like evaluators, and via this post I’m encouraging evaluators to think and develop themselves as leaders. At the Center for Creative …

Kelly Hannum on Leadership Development for Evaluators Read More »

Gary Resnick on Using Social Network Analysis to Describe Inter-Organizational Coordination and Collaboration Networks

My name is Gary Resnick and I am the Director of Research at Harder+Company Community Research, a California-based consulting firm. My background combines program evaluation with child development research, and I have an interest in system theory and networks. Harder+Company has been involved evaluating First 5 programs in a number of California counties. First 5 …

Gary Resnick on Using Social Network Analysis to Describe Inter-Organizational Coordination and Collaboration Networks Read More »

Susan Kistler on a Must-have Free Tool for the Evaluation Detective

I’m Susan Kistler, the American Evaluation Association’s Executive Director, and ongoing aea365 Saturday Contributor. Sometimes, you use a tool so much, you forget it’s there. Hence, my poor explanation for why I have not yet written about the tool I am sharing with you today. Rad Resource – OutWit Docs: OutWit Docs describes itself as …

Susan Kistler on a Must-have Free Tool for the Evaluation Detective Read More »

Robin Kelly on A Tip on Activating Your Cultural Intelligence

Hi, I am Robin Kelly; I work as an internal evaluator for the National Minority AIDS Council, which is a federally funded nongovernmental organization that provides capacity building assistance to community based organizations and health departments that have programs or interventions to address the HIV/AIDS epidemic. I mention it because we work in communities of …

Robin Kelly on A Tip on Activating Your Cultural Intelligence Read More »

Aimee White on Engaging Stakeholders More Effectively

Hi, I’m Aimee White and I am a Strategic Learning and Evaluation Consultant at FSG in the Seattle office and I have been a practicing evaluator for nearly 10 years. Lessons learned – In my world, evaluation is only good if it is informative for the client and produces actionable learning. This means having a …

Aimee White on Engaging Stakeholders More Effectively Read More »

Melanie Kawano-Chiu and Andrew Blum on Peacebuilding Evaluation Project: A Forum for Donors and Implementers

We are Melanie Kawano-Chiu, Program Director at the Alliance for Peacebuilding (AfP) and Andrew Blum, Director of Evaluation and Learning at the United States Institute of Peace.  More than two years ago I teamed up with Andrew Blum, Director of Learning and Evaluation at the United States Institute of Peace (USIP) to launch an initiative …

Melanie Kawano-Chiu and Andrew Blum on Peacebuilding Evaluation Project: A Forum for Donors and Implementers Read More »

Shelly Engelman and Tom McKlin on ‘Grit’ as a Measure of Academic Success

Hello all! This is Shelly Engelman and Tom McKlin, evaluators at The Findings Groups, LLC, a privately-owned applied research and evaluation firm with a focus on STEM education. The primary objective of many programs that we evaluate is to empower a broad range of elementary, middle and high school students to learn STEM content and …

Shelly Engelman and Tom McKlin on ‘Grit’ as a Measure of Academic Success Read More »

Silvia Salinas-Mulder and Fabiola Amariles on Gender, Rights and Cultural Awareness in Development Evaluation

We are Silvia Salinas-Mulder, Bolivian anthropologist, feminist activist and independent consultant, and Fabiola Amariles, Colombian economist, founder and director of Learning for Impact. We have worked for several years as external evaluators for development programs in Latin America. The following ideas may help to operationalize the principles of gender- and human rights (HR)-responsive evaluation in …

Silvia Salinas-Mulder and Fabiola Amariles on Gender, Rights and Cultural Awareness in Development Evaluation Read More »

Corrie Whitmore on Framing an Evaluation Conversation for Programs with Fuzzy Goals

I’m Corrie Whitmore, an internal evaluator working for Southcentral Foundation. SCF is an Alaska Native Owned and Operated healthcare organization serving approximately 60,000 Alaska Native and American Indian people living in Anchorage, Matanuska-Susitna Valley, and 60 rural villages in the Anchorage Service Unit. Our organization has had program evaluation in-house since 2009, so our small …

Corrie Whitmore on Framing an Evaluation Conversation for Programs with Fuzzy Goals Read More »