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ACM TIG Week: Evaluating our Impact: Priorities and Instruments by Kari Ross Nelson

Leave a Comment / Arts, Culture, and Museums / May 11, 2022

My name is Kari Ross Nelson. I am the Research and Evaluation Associate at Thanksgiving Point Institute and an independent consultant to museums and other informal learning organizations in the greater Salt Lake City area. My team at Thanksgiving Point is the research partner on an IMLS-funded project, Measurement of Museum Social Impact (MOMSI). This …

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PreK-12 Ed Eval TIG Week: Multi-method Evaluation: The Benefits of Qualitative Insight by Haley Johnson and Natasha Saelua

Leave a Comment / Prek-12 Educational Evaluation / April 29, 2022

Hello, we are Haley Johnson and Natasha Saelua, Researchers at McREL International. This spring we were tasked with evaluating a school-wide, comprehensive, rigorous academic K-12 program. We were asked to include a cost analysis of the program compared to similar programs. A clear-cut quantitative analysis would have sufficed but our team conducted a mixed methods …

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PreK-12 Ed Eval TIG Week: Evaluation with Aloha in Work With Schools and Teachers by Mark Yu, Darienne Dey, and Natasha Saelua

Leave a Comment / Prek-12 Educational Evaluation / May 2, 2022

Aloha kakou. We are Mark Yu, Darienne Dey and Natasha Saelua, researchers with McREL International based in Honolulu, Hawai‘i. We are honored to share our lessons learned using the Evaluation with Aloha framework in our work with schools and teachers. We learned about Evaluation with Aloha from the Culturally Responsive Evaluation and Assessment-Hawai‘i (CREA-HI). The …

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STEM Education & Training TIG Week: Piecing Together a STEM Shared Measurement System Through Community Collaboration by Tracy McMahon and Gary Silverstein

Leave a Comment / STEM Education and Training / April 11, 2022

We are Tracy McMahon (Education Development Center) and Gary Silverstein (Westat) on behalf of the NSF INCLUDES (Inclusion Across the Nation of Communities of Learners of Underrepresented Discoverers in Engineering and Science) Coordination Hub. The Hub supports NSF INCLUDES and its National Network, which brings together the power of many in a shared vision to …

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STEM Education & Training TIG Week: Which One? Evaluator, Researcher, or Both? It’s a Matter of Perspective by Angelicque Tucker Blackmon

1 Comment / STEM Education and Training / April 11, 2022

“I can remember stories …,” Anita Baker, my favorite singer-songwriter, reflects on her experiences in the soulful ballad “Fairy Tales”. The lyrics strike a reflective chord. I hear how she was snapped out of happy fairy tales into the snares of reality. But before I tell you about the realities of being an external program …

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EPE TIG Week: Modern Environmental Program Evaluation by Allison Van

Leave a Comment / Environmental Program Evaluation / April 11, 2022

Hi, I’m Allison Van, Chair of the Environmental Program Evaluation (EPE) Topical Interest Group (TIG) and Executive Director of Spark: a centre for social research innovation at McMaster University. The EPE TIG has spent the last year thinking and having conversations about what environmental program evaluation is and should be in the midst of our …

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EPE TIG Week: Thinking Globally: How to evaluate the effectiveness of aid to the environment on a global level by Sara El Choufi

Leave a Comment / Environmental Program Evaluation / April 11, 2022

Greetings, AEA365! Liz DiLuzio here, lead curator of the blog. Those of you long time, loyal readers may recognize today’s post by Sara El Choufi. It was originally posted to the site back in 2014. Forgive the pun, but the EPE TIG’s curation team thought that its evergreen content made it worth the repost. We …

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NPF TIG Week: Building Equity into Internal Evaluation Infrastructure by Courtney Bolinson

Leave a Comment / Nonprofits and Foundations Evaluation / March 26, 2022

This AEA365 week is sponsored by the Nonprofit and Foundations (NPF) TIG. The posts are centered around the theme of “Equity focused evaluation in small nonprofits and foundations: Innovations, learnings, and challenges.” Hi! I’m Courtney Bolinson, an independent evaluation consultant. I’m currently helping a new organization set-up their internal evaluation infrastructure and philosophy. To get …

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AKEN Affiliate Week: Evaluation in Alaska’s Rural, Remote Communities by Patricia Moore Shaffer

Leave a Comment / Uncategorized / March 28, 2022

I’m Patricia Moore Shaffer of the Shaffer Evaluation Group, a small, woman-owned evaluation firm that works with education partners — school districts, colleges and universities, government agencies, and nonprofits — to develop programs that address and correct long-standing inequities in education. I’ve been leading external evaluations of educational initiatives in the beautiful State of Alaska …

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