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Summer Evaluation Institute Attendees on Low-cost No-cost Tools for Evaluators Part III

At the AEA/CDC Summer Evaluation Institute, over 150 attendees went to a session on Low-cost/No-cost Tools for Evaluators. Here are some of the great ideas on collaborative tools recommended from the audience. Microsoft SharePoint: SharePoint is a web application platform that provides a centralized collaborative hub for web content management. This includes management of documents, …

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Summer Evaluation Institute Attendees on Low-cost No-cost Tools for Evaluators Part II

Leave a Comment / Collaborative, Participatory and Empowerment Evaluation / June 15, 2011 June 15, 2011

At the AEA/CDC Summer Evaluation Institute, over 150 attendees went to a session on Low-cost/No-cost Tools for Evaluators. Here are some of the great ideas recommended from the audience, Day 2! EasyBib: Create your bibliography in MLA Style, add APA style and other added functionality for $20 for the year. Search the database for existing …

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Summer Evaluation Institute Attendees on Low-cost No-cost Tools for Evaluators Part I

2 Comments / Uncategorized / June 14, 2011 June 14, 2011

At the AEA/CDC Summer Evaluation Institute, over 150 attendees went to a session on Low-cost/No-cost Tools for Evaluators. Here are some of the great ideas recommended from the audience: Prezi: Prezi is presentation software that zooms around your presentation content (yes – truly zooms, you sort of have to see it to get it, go …

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John Fallowsmith on Loving Firefox and Foxy Add-ons

1 Comment / Uncategorized / June 13, 2011 June 13, 2011

My name is John Fallowsmith and I’m a Firefox lover. I’ve tried not to be so attached to my foxy little friend, but I can’t help it. Each time I stray elsewhere, I come back to her open arms, her many talents making any other browser seem limited and limiting. Lesson Learned: Firefox is a …

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Amir Fallah on Resources for International Evaluators

1 Comment / International and Cross-cultural Evaluation / June 12, 2011 June 15, 2011

My name is Amir Fallah and I will be sharing resources for those practicing M&E (Monitoring and Evaluation) in the international sector. Rad Resource – My M&E: My M&E (Monitoring and Evaluation) MY M&E is an online collaboratively-developed home for M&E practitioners around the world. The list of partners includes the International Organization for Cooperation …

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Susan Kistler on Evaluation Job Banks

2 Comments / Uncategorized / June 11, 2011 June 10, 2011

My name is Susan Kistler. I’m the Executive Director of the American Evaluation Association, and I contribute each Saturday’s post to aea365. It’s spring – time for graduation and new beginnings. Are you searching for positions in evaluation? Here are three places to begin the hunt. Rad Resource – AEA Career Center: This is your …

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Natalia Kosheleva on Measuring The Extent of Program Intervention into Targeted Systems

Leave a Comment / Evaluation Use, Qualitative Methods, Quantitative Methods: Theory and Design / June 10, 2011 June 6, 2011

Hi! My name is Natalia Kosheleva. I’m a consultant at Process Consulting Company, Moscow, Russia. Here I would like to share my ideas about measuring the extent of program intervention into targeted systems. I base my work on two systems thinking principles. The Hierarchy principle says that any system is an element of some larger …

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Gita Upreti and Carl Liaupsin on Developing Efficient Measures with Educational Data

Leave a Comment / Assessment in Higher Education, Evaluation Use, Organizational Learning and Evaluation Capacity Building / June 9, 2011 September 1, 2011

Hi, we are Gita Upreti, Assistant Professor at the University of Texas at El Paso and Carl Liaupsin, Associate Professor at the University of Arizona in Tucson. Much of our work involves implementing broad academic and behavioral changes in educational systems. As such, we’ve had a front row seat to observe the explosion of educational …

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Laura Plybon on the Value of Evidence-Based Academic Assessment Tools

4 Comments / Assessment in Higher Education, Crime and Justice / June 8, 2011 June 6, 2011

My name is Laura Plybon. I am currently the Director of Assessment and Instructional Design for Drury University College of Graduate and Continuing Studies in Springfield, Missouri. In addition to conducting academic assessments for the graduate programs at Drury, I also develop and implement assessment initiatives to improve instructional practices for those adult students who …

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Veena Pankaj and Myia Welsh on Participatory Analysis: Expanding Stakeholder Involvement in Evaluation

3 Comments / Collaborative, Participatory and Empowerment Evaluation, Nonprofits and Foundations Evaluation / June 6, 2011 June 2, 2011

Greetings fellow evaluators! Our names are Veena Pankaj and Myia Welsh and we work for Innovation Network, a Washington DC-based evaluation firm. While Innovation Network has always used a participatory approach to evaluation, we recently came to the realization that much of the ‘participatory-ness’ of our evaluation projects was limited to evaluation planning and data …

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