Humberto Reynoso-Vallejo on Cultural Competence and Cultural Humility in Evaluation

I am Humberto Reynoso-Vallejo, Director for Program Evaluation with the Center for Health Policy and Research at the University of Massachusetts Medical School.  Using culturally appropriate approaches when conducting research and evaluation in multicultural settings, is widely accepted and essential. The cultural competence approach serves as the specific framework when conducting evaluations. This approach alone, […]

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Lori Peterson on Conducting Focus Groups with High School Students with Disabilities

I am Lori Peterson an Assistant Professor at the University of Northern Colorado. Recently, I worked on a project conducting a series of focus groups with high school students with disabilities. I wanted to share tips and lessons learned from this experience. Hot Tips: Feed them and they will come! High school students love food.

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Dawn Henderson on Consider Telling a Story

Hello, I am Dawn Henderson, a doctoral student pursuing a community psychology concentration in the Psychology in the Public Interest program at North Carolina State University. In a faraway land, and maybe for some, right in the backyard we are involved in evaluation work with non-profit organizations. If you are like me, then this experience

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Tom Archibald and Jane Buckley on Evaluative Thinking: The ‘Je Ne Sais Quoi’ of Evaluation Capacity Building and Evaluation Practice

Hi, we are Tom Archibald and Jane Buckley with the Cornell Office for Research on Evaluation. Among other initiatives, we work in partnership with non-formal educators to build evaluation capacity. We have been exploring the idea of evaluative thinking, which we believe is an essential, yet elusive, ingredient in evaluation capacity building (ECB). Below, we

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Susan Kistler on Inspiration and Education for Data Visualization

I’m Susan Kistler, the American Evaluation Association’s Executive Director and aesa365’s regular Saturday contributor. For those who read regularly, you know of my love of data visualization (DV) – I view it as a key to conveying evaluation information in ways that promote understanding and use. Here are two new items to feed your inner

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Bloggers Series: Catherine (Brehm) Rain on The Evaluation Forum

My name is Catherine (Brehm) Rain, Vice President of Rain & Brehm Consulting Group, Inc., an independent evaluation and consulting firm located in Rockledge, Florida.  I blog at The Evaluation Forum. Rad Resource – The Evaluation Forum: New to our website, The Evaluation Forum focuses on the why and wherefore of evaluation of health promotion

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Bloggers Series: Priya Small on the Nonprofit Capacity Building Blog

Hi! I’m Priya Small, an independent evaluation consultant/subcontractor. I am also an evaluation writer and blogger for the Free Management Library’s Nonprofit Capacity Building blog, hosted by Authenticity Consulting, Inc. Rad Resource – Blog: Nonprofit Capacity Building: True to its title, this blog focuses on building capacity for nonprofits! All my posts focus on evaluation,

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Bloggers Series: David Fetterman on the Empowerment Evaluation Blog

Hi. I am David Fetterman, president and CEO of Fetterman & Associates, an international evaluation consulting firm. I have been at Stanford University for 25 years, serving on the faculty and in administration. Concurrently, I am a professor of education at the University of Arkansas at Pine Bluff and co-director of the Arkansas Evaluation Center.

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Bloggers Series: Pablo Rodríguez-Bilella on Al Borde Del Caos

My name is Pablo Rodríguez-Bilella, and I am a social researcher at the Argentine Research Council and a professor of Social Anthropology at the UNSJ (Argentina).  I have been involved for the past few years in different uses of Web 2.0, and below I will share with you some lessons of my blogging experience at Al Borde Del Caos. Rad

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