SCEA Week: Connie Hoskins on Managing a Project Remotely

I am Connie Hoskins, a Research Associate at Vital Research, a research and evaluation consulting firm in the education, health, social services, aging services, and corporate sectors. Although we are based in Los Angeles, we conduct a great deal of our work in other states and nationwide. In one biennial project, we conduct interviews with …

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SCEA Week: Bill Shennum & Kate LaVelle on the Multiple Uses of Multiple Data Sources

Greetings. We are Bill Shennum and Kate LaVelle, staff members in the Research Department at Five Acres, a nonprofit child and family services agency located in Altadena, CA and serving the greater Los Angeles area. We work as internal evaluators to support outcome measurement and continuous quality improvement within the organization. In our roles as …

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SCEA Week: Leslie Fierro & Deanna Rossi on Evaluating State Asthma Programs

We are Leslie Fierro, former CDC ETA and Deanna Rossi, California Breathing asthma program evaluator, and we’d like to share some of the issues that make California’s asthma program unique and some of the resources we’ve used to facilitate evaluation in this context. California is one of 36 states receiving funds from CDC to implement …

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SCEA Week: Bonnie Richards on Valuing in the Social Services

My name is Bonnie Richards, and I am a Research Associate with Vital Research, an evaluation and consulting company located in Los Angeles, California. The Social Services sector is among the industries we serve when designing and implementing evaluation projects. Lessons Learned: So, what frames a Social Services evaluation project? Consider how values and valuing …

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SCEA Week: Anne Vo & John LaVelle on the Landscape of Evaluation Practice in Greater Los Angeles

Hi! This is Anne Vo from the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) and John LaVelle from Claremont Graduate University (CGU). We are the Co-directors of the Southern California Evaluation Association (SCEA), a local affiliate of the American Evaluation Association (AEA). Today marks the launch of the SCEA-themed week on aea365 so we will be …

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Susan Kistler on the AEA Public eLibrary

My name is Susan Kistler and I am the Executive Director for the American Evaluation Association. You likely know that AEA’s annual conference is coming up the week beginning October 30. What you may not know is that conference presenters are strongly encouraged to share handouts and supplementary materials via the AEA public eLibrary. Rad …

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John Nash on the Ignite Event and Slide Clinic at the AEA Conference

I’m John Nash and I’m the program co-chair, with Stuart Henderson, for the American Evaluation Association’s new Topical Interest Group, Data Visualization and Reporting (DVR TIG). I’m here to tell you about some innovative events taking place in Anaheim during the 2011 AEA Conference. Hot Tip: Ignite Yourself at the Conference You don’t need matches …

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Scott Chaplowe on Fun and Games in M&E Trainings

Hello, my name is Scott Chaplowe, and I am a Senior Monitoring and Evaluation (M&E) Officer with the International Federation Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC). The IFRC has a lot of stakeholders –communities, 186 National Societies, local governments, partners, donors, etc. One part of my job is to lead M&E trainings that empower …

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Christine Paulsen on Usability Testing

My name is Christine Paulsen and I own Concord Evaluation Group.  We evaluate media and technology-based initiatives. We regularly integrate usability testing with program evaluation to provide our clients with a more comprehensive picture of how their technologies and initiatives are performing. As evaluators, you know that many of the programs that we evaluate today …

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Corey Newhouse on Using Video in Evaluation

My name is Corey Newhouse and I’m the Founder and Principal of Public Profit. We help youth service and educational organizations measure and manage what matters. I’m a self-taught user of video in evaluation, and am writing to share some of my lessons learned. We have incorporated video into our evaluation studies for the last …

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