Hi, my name is Nicole Vicinanza and I’m a Senior Research Associate with JBS International, a consulting firm. In my consulting work, one of my roles is to provide technical assistance in evaluation to community based organizations, government programs and service providers whose primary job is not evaluation. Hot Tip: How do you explain random …
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My name is LaMarcus Bolton, and I am the American Evaluation Association’s Technology Director, as well as a doctoral student in Industrial-Organizational Psychology. Today, I wanted to let you know of a few good resources when surmounting barriers when working with colleagues and/or clients. Rad Resource: When you’re working with multicultural colleagues or clients, the …
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Hi, my name is Dreolin Fleischer. I am a doctoral student at Claremont Graduate University. I would like to share resources, at different price points, I have used to capture and organize qualitative and quantitative telephone interview data. One resource I have used in the past is Microsoft Office Access. You can create a form …
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My name is Susan Kistler, and I am the American Evaluation Association’s Executive Director. It is my pleasure to contribute each Saturday’s post to the aea365 blog. On Friday, I had a wonderful meeting with AEA’s eLibrarians – volunteers committed to increasing the use of, and adding value to, AEA’s online library. Their enthusiasm was …
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Hi my name is Catherine Jahnes. I am the Research and Evaluation Associate at the Virginia G. Piper Charitable Trust. Over the last three years, the Trust has attempted to develop a learning community around evaluation capacity and use. I would like to share with you some of the lessons learned from my experience with …
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My name is Jean Eells and I am an independent evaluator in central Iowa. I am drawn to projects that are complex and have seemingly intractable problems, due in part, because we always look at them in the same way. Being able to see clearly is sometimes half the challenge of designing an evaluation. Hot …
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My name is Cassandra O’Neill and I’ve been a consultant for the past 10 years. I’m a member of a network of consultants and coaches called Wholonomy Consulting. I’m also the President-Elect for the Arizona Evaluation Network and a member of the AEA Local Affiliate Council. A theme in my work is using effective engagement …
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My name is Kathleen Dowell and I am President of Partners in Evaluation & Planning. As a full-time evaluation consultant, and lead in a consulting firm, I continually strive to improve our practice and service to clients. Hot Tip: Want to assess the quality of the services you provide to evaluation clients? Then the Client …
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My name is Charles Gasper and I am the Director of Evaluation for the Missouri Foundation for Health. One of my major jobs is working with our internal staff and grantees in the development of theory-based logic models. Hot Tip: Have Digital Camera and Post-it© Notes, will Travel! Getting a large group of people to …
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My name is John LaVelle, I’m a doctoral student at Claremont Graduate University. I’ve been in a lot of evaluation courses, and these are some of the resources I’ve learned about from my faculty and other students. Rad Resource: One of the sites I learned about in class is called the Online Evaluation Resource Library. …
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