Stacy Johnson, Jill Lipski Cain and Liz Radel Freeman on Community Mapping

Leave a Comment / Community Psychology, Health Evaluation /

We are Stacy Johnson, Jill Lipski Cain, and Liz Radel Freeman from the Improve Group in Saint Paul, MN. The Improve Group works with organizations to make the most of information, navigate complexity and ensure their investments of time and money lead to meaningful, sustained impact. Last November at Evaluation 2011, we presented on a […]

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Susan Kistler on Low-cost/No-cost Tools for Evaluators and Winning a Copy of NodeXL Guide

1 Comment / Graduate Student and New Evaluators, Social Network Analysis, Teaching of Evaluation /

I am Susan Kistler, the American Evaluation Association’s Executive Director and regular aea365 Saturday contributor. I wanted to take today and build on Marc Smith’s post from yesterday regarding NodeXL. Marc has been kind enough to do a bit of coaching to help get us up to speed on the use of this free tool,

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Frank Meintjies on How Evaluation and Strategic Planning Go Together

3 Comments / Evaluation Managers and Supervisors /

My name is Frank Meintjies and I work as a consultant in South Africa. While most of my evaluation work has related to poverty reduction initiatives, I have also undertaken evaluation work on HIV and AIDS programmes. Evaluation and strategic planning are so closely linked. Some organisations want to dive in to strategic planning without doing a

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Priya Small on “What I Wish I Had Known in My Beginner Evaluator Days”

4 Comments / Graduate Student and New Evaluators, Independent Consulting /

I am Priya Small, an independent public health evaluation consultant, and today I will talk about lessons I have learned from riding the steep learning curve. Many times we may tend to devalue our early learning experiences as evaluators. But as this is a time of rapid growth, sharing these lessons is profitable. Lesson Learned:

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Sara Plachta Elliott on Sparking Collective Learning

Leave a Comment / Collaborative, Participatory and Empowerment Evaluation, Community Psychology, Data Visualization and Reporting, Nonprofits and Foundations Evaluation, Youth Focused Evaluation /

Hi, I’m Sara Plachta Elliott, Evaluation Fellow at the Skillman Foundation in Detroit, Michigan, through a grant to Brandeis University’s Center for Youth and Communities. As an Evaluation Fellow, I work with Foundation staff to create learning opportunities that inform the work of improving school and neighborhood conditions for Detroit’s kids.In 2010, Brandeis conducted a

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Regan Grandy on Newly Amended FERPA Regulation Helps Educational Evaluation

4 Comments / Government Evaluation, Prek-12 Educational Evaluation, Research on Evaluation, Uncategorized, Youth Focused Evaluation /

I’m Regan Grandy, and I’ve worked as an evaluator for Spectrum Research Evaluation and Development for six years. My work is primarily evaluating U.S. Department of Education-funded grant projects with school districts across the nation. Lessons Learned – Like some of you, I’ve found it difficult, at times, gaining access to extant data from school

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Lija Greenseid on Conducting Mixed-Mode Surveys

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I’m Lija Greenseid, a senior evaluator with Professional Data Analysts, Inc. in Minneapolis, Minnesota. A mixed-mode survey is a survey that collects data by more than one mode, such as telephone, mail, or web. PDA has conducted many mixed-mode surveys as components of our evaluations of state stop-smoking programs, such as tobacco quitlines and in-person

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Stephanie Evergreen on the Potent Presentations Initiative and Winning a Copy of Presentation Zen

32 Comments / Data Visualization and Reporting /

Hi folks. Susan Kistler normally contributes the Saturday post on aea365, but she’s busy cleaning and updating your awesome proposals. I’m Stephanie Evergreen, AEA’s eLearning Initiatives Director and the lead of a new AEA project initiated by the AEA Board of Directors – the Potent Presentations Initiative. We’ll be identifying and sharing research-based strategies to

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Bloggers Series: John Nash on Contributing to Multiple Blogs

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I’m John Nash and I’m an associate professor at the University of Kentucky in the department of educational leadership studies. I’m also co-founder of the OpenEye Group, a consultancy working in Europe and the States to enhance program impact in the social sector. Currently I’m blogging in several places in different capacities. I have a

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