AEA365 – Page 445 – A Tip-a-Day by and for Evaluators

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

4 Comments / Prek-12 Educational Evaluation / December 21, 2011 December 14, 2011

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

Leave a Comment / Community Psychology, Data Visualization and Reporting, Health Evaluation, Integrating Technology into Evaluation, Needs Assessment / December 20, 2011 December 21, 2011

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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Terri Anderson on Using Collaboration Theory for Formative Assessment

Leave a Comment / Collaborative, Participatory and Empowerment Evaluation, Health Evaluation / December 19, 2011 December 13, 2011

My name is Terri Anderson and I serve as a Director for Evaluation with the University of Massachusetts Medical School’s Center for Health Policy and Research. Recently, Michael Hutton-Woodland and I worked with a 15 member coalition of regulatory agencies and long term care providers convened to address safe medication administration in Massachusetts nursing homes. …

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Rakesh Mohan and Amy Lorenzo on the Usefulness of Paper Surveys

Leave a Comment / Uncategorized / December 18, 2011 December 12, 2011

Greetings from beautiful Boise! We are Rakesh Mohan and Amy Lorenzo of Idaho’s legislative Office of Performance Evaluations. For the past six years, our office has been conducting surveys solely in an electronic environment. This approach has worked so well that we have all but abandoned the use of paper surveys. When we looked at …

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WMU Week: Kelly Robertson on the Depths of Culture and What it Looks Like in Practice

Leave a Comment / Uncategorized / December 16, 2011 December 11, 2011

My name is Kelly Robertson and I am a project manager at The Evaluation Center and a student in the Interdisciplinary Ph.D. in Evaluation program at Western Michigan University. This fall I was fortunate enough to have been able to attend several lectures and discussions led by visiting scholar Dr. Rodney Hopson which left me …

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WMU Week: Lori Wingate on Questions of Culture and Power in Evaluation and the OK-ness of Not Getting to “The Answer”

2 Comments / Uncategorized / December 15, 2011 December 11, 2011

My name is Lori Wingate, and I work at The Evaluation Center at Western Michigan University. I’ve been involved in a number of discussions around the issues of culture, color, and gender in evaluation. I value the premise from which these conversations start. Being hyper-pragmatic, I tend to get frustrated with where they end—that, is, …

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WMU Week: Tammi Phillippe on Personal Lenses and Bias

Leave a Comment / Uncategorized / December 14, 2011 December 11, 2011

Hello from beautiful Kalamazoo, Michigan. My name is Tammi Phillippe. I am a student in my first official evaluation course. Western Michigan University in Kalamazoo is home to the Evaluation Café where Dr. Rodney Hopson, AEA President Elect, recently gave a talk titled, Evaluation and the Public Good: Toward Whose Good, Whose Benefit and to …

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WMU Week: Corey Smith on Alternative Logic Models

2 Comments / Uncategorized / December 13, 2011 December 11, 2011

Hi, my name is Corey Smith and I am a brand new student in the interdisciplinary Ph.D. program in evaluation at Western Michigan University. Recently we were fortunate to have Dr. Rodney Hopson of Duquesne University in Pittsburgh, PA visit us. Dr. Hopson gave a presentation titled “Evaluation and the Public Good.” Below I discuss …

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WMU Week: Diane Rogers on AEA’s Statement of Cultural Competence and the Program Evaluation Standards

1 Comment / Uncategorized / December 12, 2011 December 12, 2011

Hello, my name is Diane Rogers and I am a doctoral student in the Interdisciplinary Doctoral Program in Evaluation at Western Michigan University (WMU) and a secondary mathematics teacher. My work in evaluation focuses on education and social justice, so naturally I was excited to have the opportunity to work with and learn from Dr. …

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