Hello from Oregon! My name is Tanya Ostrogorsky. I am the Assistant Dean for Evaluation Science at the Oregon Health & Science University School of Nursing where I am responsible for the evaluation of 13 academic programs across 6 campuses. Although I am sure that sounds just thrilling to many of you, I writing to …
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Hello, my name is Scott Cody and I’m Deputy Director of the What Works Clearinghouse (WWC). I’m also the Associate Director of Human Services Research at Mathematica Policy Research. I’d like to share with you an important resource for researchers, educators, and policy makers. Evaluators know how important study design is to the validity of …
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My name is Emily Warn and I’m a senior partner at SocialQuarry, a social media consulting group that plans and analyzes online networks and social media for non-profits, foundations, and public agencies. Today I’m going to be sharing a hot tip about using social media in evaluations. This past week Facebook surpassed Google in US …
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I’m Susan Kistler, AEA’s Executive Director, and I contribute each Saturday’s post. Since we started aea365 on January 1, I’ve received questions about how we monitor readership. Rad Resource: Feedburner is a free tool from Google through which you can ‘feed’ the content from your blog to track subscribers. It takes 2 minutes to set …
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Hi, my name is Dreolin Fleischer. I am a doctoral student at Claremont Graduate University. Today I’ll be sharing a tip about running PC programs on Mac Computers. Hot Tip: I have used a Mac for the last five years and I am very happy using a Mac; however, there are those times that you …
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Hi, my name is Nancy Aguirre. I am a research associate for an independent evaluation consultant and a Professional Expert at Mt. San Antonio College in California. One thing that’s been tricky for me is developing scales, and it seems like so many people have a preference for 5, 7, and even 10 point scales! …
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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 great resources for managing your local computer files. Rad Resource: Everyday, we deal with tens (some of us, hundreds) of computer files …
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Hi. My name is Betty Apt, and I am a recent retiree from the Division of STD Prevention at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). The 65 project areas (all states, the large cities, and the American territories) that the Division funds collect morbidity, performance measures, and other data, but they do not …
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Greetings! I am Leslie McConnell, a grants and evaluation specialist at the Allegheny Intermediate Unit, a regional education service agency in Pittsburgh, PA. My team and I conduct external evaluations of state, regional, and local educational initiatives for the purposes of accountability and program improvement. If you work with student and program data, it’s critical …
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Hello, I’m Tom Kelly and I have been supporting and managing evaluation investments and capacity-building since 1999 at The Annie E. Casey Foundation, a national philanthropy focused on achieving better outcomes for America’s most vulnerable children and families. Although I began my evaluation career 10 years before that working on evaluations of federal and state …
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