I’m James Altschuld, Professor Emeritus of Ohio State University. So you have to conduct a needs assessment! You are an evaluator in an organization or expert consultant, you know what to do. You have a sense of what needs assessment is but you really haven’t been involved in one before and now you are concerned. …
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I’m Ryan Watkins, an Associate Professor at George Washington University. Lessons Learned: Get familiar with needs assessment literature Even if you only occasionally conduct needs assessments, it is important to be aware of the research literature that supports your theories, processes, and tools. I’ve summarized five “classic” articles on needs assessment that should be on …
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I’m Susan Kistler and I am the American Evaluation Association’s Executive Director and aea365’s regular Saturday contributor. Spring has finally sprung in North American – I’m once again awakened by the birds in the morning and shuttling around between crew, track, and softball – the spring sports for my small family. For many, spring will …
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Greetings, I am June Gothberg, Lead Curator for aea365 and Research Associate at Western Michigan University. As Lead Curator, I am always looking for ways to expand the knowledge of evaluators through hot tips, cool tricks, lessons learned, and rad resources. While working on my dissertation, I made a great find and thought I would …
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Hi, I’m Mary Arnold, a professor and youth development specialist at Oregon State University. In a previous AEA365 post I presented three tips for successfully engaging youth in participatory evaluation (YPE) projects. Here are a few more tips that can help ensure the success of your YPE endeavors. Hot Tips: Teach the Cycle. As trained …
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I’m Sarah Gill, membership chair for the Atlanta-area Evaluation Association (AaEA). Recently AaEA hosted a spring social. The event was inspired by the recent AEA 365 posts making predictions for the future of evaluation. Maureen Wilce, AaEA’s chair for professional development, and I thought the posts would inspire great conversation among our fellow evaluators – …
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Hello! We are Linda Cabral, Laura Sefton and Kathy Muhr from the Center for Health Policy and Research at the University of Massachusetts Medical School. We recently completed an evaluation project that involved recruiting people with mental health conditions to participate in individual interviews, focus groups, and surveys regarding their experiences with a mental health …
I’m Dominica McBride, President of The HELP Institute, Inc. Recently, I wrote an article for New Directions for Evaluation on Sociocultural Theory (ST) and its applicability to evaluation. Joke: There were a few young fish swimming near an older, wise fish and the old, wise fish says, “My, isn’t the water wonderful today?” and the …
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We are Stacy Johnson, Jill Lipski Cain, and Liz Radel Freeman from the Improve Group in Saint Paul, MN. The Improve Group works with organizations to make the most of information, navigate complexity and ensure their investments of time and money lead to meaningful, sustained impact. Last November at Evaluation 2011, we presented on a …
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I am Susan Kistler, the American Evaluation Association’s Executive Director and regular aea365 Saturday contributor. I wanted to take today and build on Marc Smith’s post from yesterday regarding NodeXL. Marc has been kind enough to do a bit of coaching to help get us up to speed on the use of this free tool, …
