Bloggers Series: Rick Davies on Rick on the Road

Hi, my name is Rick Davies, I am an independent evaluation consultant, based in Cambridge, UK. I have been working with international development aid programs in Africa and Asia, in various roles since 1980. I run the Rick on the Road blog. Rad Resource – The Rick on the Road blog started in 2004, and …

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Bloggers Series: Kathleen Tinworth on expose.your.museum

Hey there. It’s me, Kathleen Tinworth—program chair for AEA’s Evaluating Arts & Culture TIG and Director of Visitor Research & Program Evaluation at the Denver Museum of Nature & Science. I blog about the intersection of consumer trends and the visitor experience. Rad Resource – expose.your.museum: There’s always something interesting going on in consumer trends. …

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Bloggers Series: Susan Eliot on a Qualitative Research Blog

I’m Susan Eliot, principal of Eliot & Associates, a qualitative research firm in Portland Oregon and I write a qualitative research blog. Rad Resource –The focus of my blog is applying qualitative methods in real life situations. As evaluators, most of us have taken a course or two on the “How To’s” of conducting qualitative …

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Bloggers Series: Amy Germuth on EvalThoughts

Hi, I’m Amy Germuth, owner of EvalWorks, LLC,  an evaluation and survey company in Chapel Hill-Durham, NC. Rad Resource – EvalThoughts.com:  EvalThoughts focuses on four main areas: Evaluation, Surveying, Methodology, and Consulting. Content is usually posted monthly or more frequently (although sometimes life intervenes instead!).  Where possible I try to examine my own practices and …

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Kylie Hutchinson on an Evaluation Christmas Carol

I’m Kylie Huthinson, AEA Member, Community Solutions consulting firm owner, occasional aea365 contributor, and annual Christmas caroler. Each year, I adapt a carol to share with my clients, and this year – encouraged by a recent discussion of evaluation songs, I made a special one just for aea365. Hot Tip: Let your clients and stakeholders …

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Bloggers Series: Susan Kistler on Writing Weekly for aea365

Hello world! I’m Susan Kistler, the Executive Director of the American Evaluation Association. This winter, we’ll be running an ongoing series on evaluators who blog. I’m kicking it off by writing about contributing each Saturday’s post to aea365. Rad Resource – aea365: The AEA blog, aea365, posts a contribution a day by and for evaluators. …

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Lev Penny on ProfHacker for the Academically Inclined (and even those who aren’t!)

My name is Lev Penny and I am an itinerant instructor. In November, I read John VanDyke’s piece where he recommended Lifehacker, Zenhabits, and MakeUseOf for self-improvement reading. The first week in December, Shelby First chimed in to suggest HackCollege for aea365’s student readers in particular. I’m going to build on their contributions, but suggest …

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Elizabeth Autio on Recruiting Participants for Your Study: Practical Strategies and Advice

My name is Elizabeth Autio and I am an associate at Education Northwest, a non-profit organization serving educators through research, evaluation, and technical assistance. Lesson Learned for Recruiting Study Participants: Recruiting study participants is challenging. Success has ramifications for continued funding, buy-in and attrition. Based on my experience recruiting for a federally-funded randomized controlled trial, …

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Melissa Biel on the Uniform Data System (UDS) Mapper

My name is Melissa Biel and I am an independent consultant. I frequently work with hospitals, clinics and community organizations to conduct community health needs assessments. A common component of a community needs assessment is identifying access to primary health care. I have found the Uniform Data System (UDS) and the associated UDS Mapper to …

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