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Debi Lang and Kathy Muhr on Identifying Hidden or Hard to Reach Populations

1 Comment / Disabilities and Underrepresented Populations / June 1, 2012

We are Debi Lang and Kathy Muhr, members of the Research and Evaluation Unit at the University of Massachusetts Medical School Center for Health Policy and Research. Populations considered hidden or hard to reach for participation in qualitative evaluation studies may be small in size, their members difficult to locate, or hard to distinguish from …

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Judy Savageau on The IRB Process in Human Subject Research

Leave a Comment / Health Evaluation / May 21, 2012

Hello! I’m Judy Savageau, faculty, researcher, and IRB representative for the University of Massachusetts Center for Health Policy and Research. I want to bring attention to the need for us to be mindful that our stakeholder groups are often ‘subjects’ in our evaluation research. Why are there ethical concerns? Like research, evaluation involves human subjects. …

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Craig Wiles on Using Tableau for Data Exploration

3 Comments / Data Visualization and Reporting / May 21, 2012

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 …

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Kelly Hannum on Leadership Development for Evaluators

Leave a Comment / Organizational Learning and Evaluation Capacity Building / April 23, 2012

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 …

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

Leave a Comment / Cluster, Multi-site and Multi-level Evaluation, Data Visualization and Reporting, Human Services Evaluation, Prek-12 Educational Evaluation, Social Network Analysis / May 21, 2012

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 …

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

Leave a Comment / Uncategorized / May 26, 2012

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 …

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Robin Kelly on A Tip on Activating Your Cultural Intelligence

2 Comments / Disabilities and Underrepresented Populations, Health Evaluation, Internal Evaluation / April 23, 2012

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 …

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Aimee White on Engaging Stakeholders More Effectively

2 Comments / Organizational Learning and Evaluation Capacity Building / April 23, 2012

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 …

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

Leave a Comment / Disabilities and Underrepresented Populations, International and Cross-cultural Evaluation, Mixed Methods Evaluation / May 21, 2012

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 …

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

1 Comment / Prek-12 Educational Evaluation, STEM Education and Training / November 7, 2012

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 …

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