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Rakesh Mohan and Lance McCleve on Why Evaluators Should Respond to the Interests of Sponsors and Stakeholders

2 Comments / Government Evaluation / August 17, 2011

Greetings from beautiful Boise, Idaho! We are Rakesh Mohan and Lance McCleve from the Idaho State Legislature’s Office of Performance Evaluations. This post discusses our office’s approach to addressing two seemingly conflicting expectations—responsiveness to and independence from sponsors and stakeholders. Instead of worrying about finding the right balance between the two, our mantra is to …

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Oksana Barley on the Evaluation Emergency Preparedness Toolkit

2 Comments / Independent Consulting / August 15, 2011

I am Oksana Barley. I am a home-based evaluation practitioner and I meet my clients in their chosen space. I always set out with what I think of as my Evaluation Emergency Preparedness Toolkit. Rad Resource – Toolkit: Here are the items in my Toolkit. Graph Paper Notepad: I find it easier to explain things …

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Carlo Amillo on Resources for Impact Evaluators

Leave a Comment / International and Cross-cultural Evaluation / August 14, 2011

Cheers aea365 readers. I am Carlo Amillo and I want to share resources for evaluators from around the world who evaluate development projects using impact evaluations. The following resources are for M&E practitioners in particular but useful to anyone who is a professional evaluator. Rad Resource – The International Initiative for Impact Evaluation (3ie): 3ie …

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Susan Kistler on Handouts from the 2011 AEA/CDC Summer Evaluation Institute

4 Comments / Uncategorized / August 16, 2011

I am Susan Kistler, AEA’s Executive Director, and the aea365 contributor for each Saturday. Today, I want to share with you items in the AEA Public eLibrary from a selection of sessions at the 2011 AEA/CDC Summer Evaluation Institute. These are handouts and slides from the 40+ workshops, pre-Institute day-long trainings, and keynotes offered this …

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Chris Camillo on Improving Monitoring Systems from an Auditor’s Perspective

1 Comment / Government Evaluation, International and Cross-cultural Evaluation / August 10, 2011

Hi. My name is Chris Camillo, and I am an auditor and consultant on international child labor and education issues. As part of my auditing work, I visit rural development projects in Africa and Latin America to assess the quality of their GPRA performance data, their compliance with program requirements and their learning environments for …

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Celina Chao & Patricia Quinones on Maintaining Organizational Memory

Leave a Comment / Graduate Student and New Evaluators, Organizational Learning and Evaluation Capacity Building / August 10, 2011

Hi. We are Celina Chao and Patricia Quinones, second-year doctoral students in the Social Research Methodology (SRM) Division in the Department of Education at UCLA. We are part of UCLA’s SRM Evaluation Group, composed of evaluation graduate students and faculty who work on a variety of education-related projects. Lesson Learned: A challenge that university-based evaluation …

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Philippe Buteau on Using Google Refine for Data Cleaning

1 Comment / Integrating Technology into Evaluation, Quantitative Methods: Theory and Design / August 10, 2011

My name is Philippe Buteau and I am an analyst at my own small co-owned firm, Buteau and Lindley. Back in May, Susan Kistler briefly wrote about Google Refine on aea365 and prompted me to take a look. Since then, I have used Refine in a number of ways and thought that I would submit …

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Marion O’Reilly-Stanhauer on NWEA’s Data Gallery and Standardized Educational Testing

2 Comments / Data Visualization and Reporting, Government Evaluation, Integrating Technology into Evaluation, Prek-12 Educational Evaluation / September 1, 2011

My name is Marion O’Reilly-Stanhauer. I am an independent evaluation consultant focusing on out-of-school time (OST) programs such as after-school enrichment, tutoring, and summer success. The programs I work with are impacted by standardized testing in their states, often due to calls for additional OST support when standardized tests indicate low proficiency levels or the …

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