AEA365 – Page 428 – A Tip-a-Day by and for Evaluators

AZENet Week: Sarah Griffiths on The Sustainability Formula

Leave a Comment / Organizational Learning and Evaluation Capacity Building / June 11, 2012 May 25, 2012

I’m Sarah Griffiths, Senior Partner, Wholonomy Consulting, in Tucson, AZ. I’m going to share some highlights of the recent AZENet conference which focused on Building Capacity for Organizational Effectiveness. The learning goals for participants were to: Understand what research shows about organizational effectiveness in three key areas: Adaptive Capacity, Leadership, and Management Practices. Explore the …

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AZENet Week: Cassandra O’Neill and Amy Ashley on Local Collaboration for Big Impact

Leave a Comment / Uncategorized / June 10, 2012 May 25, 2012

Hi, we’re Cassandra O’Neill, Senior Partner, Wholonomy Consulting, in Tucson AZ, and Amy Ashley, Policy and Research Technical Writer at the Center for Applied Behavioral Health Policy, Arizona State University. Together, we make up the co-president elect position of the Arizona Evaluation Network (AZENet). Welcome to Arizona evaluation week, where we highlight local collaboration for …

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CPE Week: Abraham Wandersman on Empowerment Evaluation and Getting to Outcomes

Leave a Comment / Collaborative, Participatory and Empowerment Evaluation / June 8, 2012 June 8, 2012

I am Abraham Wandersman, past-president of the American Psychological Association Division 27 – Community Psychology. I am also a professor of psychology at the University of South Carolina at Columbia. David Fetterman and I have worked together on empowerment evaluation issues, articles, and books for over 17 years. We would like to share a few …

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CPE Week: Linda Delaney on Empowerment Evaluation – Evaluative and Non-evaluative Feedback

Leave a Comment / Collaborative, Participatory and Empowerment Evaluation / June 7, 2012 June 7, 2012

My name is Linda Delaney and I am a Learning Coordinator for the City of Memphis Office of Talent Development. I have been a consultant in evaluation for over 10 years. I work with Dr. David Fetterman as an evaluator for the Minority Sub-recipient Grant Office in Arkansas – a State-wide tobacco prevention evaluation. In …

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CPE Week: Beverly Tremain Empowerment Evaluation: Useful Tools and Resources

4 Comments / Collaborative, Participatory and Empowerment Evaluation / June 6, 2012 June 5, 2012

I am Beverly Tremain, President and Owner of Public Health Consulting, a research, evaluation, and quality improvement service organization. David Fetterman and I use an empowerment evaluation approach in tobacco prevention programs, specifically helping the Minority Initiative Grant Office (MISGRO) and tobacco prevention non-profits in counties throughout the State of Arkansas. In all of my …

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CPE Week: Liliana Rodríguez-Campos on Collaborative Evaluation

2 Comments / Collaborative, Participatory and Empowerment Evaluation / June 5, 2012 June 5, 2012

I am Liliana Rodríguez-Campos, Co-Chair of the Collaborative, Participatory, and Empowerment Evaluation Topical Interest Group (TIG) of the American Evaluation Association. I am also an evaluation professor and the director of the Center for Research, Evaluation, Assessment and Measurement at the University of South Florida. Among other achievements, I received the American Evaluation Association’s Marcia …

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CPE Week: Wayne Miller on Radargrams and Empowerment Evaluation

4 Comments / Collaborative, Participatory and Empowerment Evaluation / June 4, 2012 June 4, 2012

I’m Wayne Miller, senior lecturer in the School of Education at Avondale College of Higher Education at Lake Macquarie, New South Wales, where I have worked in teacher education for 25 years. In 2005 I stumbled on empowerment evaluation when reading the ‘vision for the new millennium’ Claremont papers (Donaldson & Scriven, 2003). I then …

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CPE Week: David Fetterman on Empowerment Evaluation: From Ignite Lectures to Wikipedia Postings

3 Comments / Collaborative, Participatory and Empowerment Evaluation, Community Psychology / June 3, 2012 June 4, 2012

Welcome to the CP&E TIG sponsored week of tips and rad resources. I am David Fetterman, past-president of the American Evaluation Association and co-chair of the Collaborative, Participatory and Empowerment Evaluation TIG. I have 25 years of experience at Stanford University. I am the President & CEO of Fetterman & Associates, an international evaluation consulting …

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Susan Kistler on the Community Toolbox

1 Comment / Advocacy and Policy Change, Collaborative, Participatory and Empowerment Evaluation, Community Psychology, Nonprofits and Foundations Evaluation, Teaching of Evaluation / June 2, 2012 June 3, 2012

I’m Susan Kistler, the American Evaluation Association’s Executive Director and aea365 Saturday contributor. Today I’m writing from Atlanta and the AEA/CDC Summer Evaluation Institute. I wanted to share a bit more about a great resource originally mentioned by Susan Wolfe in her August 2010 post. Rad Resource – The Community Toolbox: The Community Toolbox provided …

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Carolyn Cohen and Davis Patterson on Interview Design Process

5 Comments / Independent Consulting / June 1, 2012 May 21, 2012

Hello, we are Carolyn Cohen (Manager, Cohen Research & Evaluation, LLC) and Davis Patterson (Research Scientist, University of Washington Department of Family Medicine). We have partnered on several evaluations over the years, and are always excited to try out new facilitation strategies. We sometimes find ourselves challenged by access to, and time constraints of, potential …

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