My name is Holly Lewandowski and I started my independent consulting business, Evaluation for Change, Inc. three and a half years ago. Being a program evaluator for twelve years prior to starting my business helped me learn and refine some valuable skills such as juggling multiple projects, working with diverse stakeholders, and applying social research […]
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I’m Andrew Hawkins from ARTD Consultants in Australia. We all know the internet is increasingly used by governments to support or deliver social policy and programs but if someone asked you to evaluate a website or online service, what would you need to know? Building a successful website is no less complicated than providing a
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My name is Pam Larson Nippolt and I am a University of Minnesota Extension Youth Development faculty member who works on a team of program evaluators in youth development. I also have consulted with and evaluated programs for over 15 years. I have found a recently-released resource for those of us who evaluate and study
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I am Gregory D. Greenman II, the Evaluation and Assessment Coordinator at the Center for Community and Learning Partnerships at Wentworth Institute of Technology (WIT). I am also the Massachusetts Campus Compact AmeriCorps*VISTA at WIT. For the past six months, I have been working on evaluating and assessing the Center’s civic engagement programs and the
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Hi! My name is Laura Sefton. I’m a Research Coordinator in the University of Massachusetts Medical School’s Center for Health Policy and Research. Funding for many of our research and evaluation projects comes from many sources, including state, federal, and foundation grants and contracts. Part of my role is to assist staff in finding the
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My name is Susan Kistler and I am the American Evaluation Association’s Executive Director and aea365 ongoing Saturday contributor. This has been a great week, highlighting posts from AEA’s Data Visualization and Reporting Topical Interest Group. The DVR TIG’s willingness to lead the way in exploring reporting alternatives has lead to a change in the
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Greetings from Boise, the city of trees! We are Rakesh Mohan (director) and Margaret Campbell (administrative coordinator) of Idaho’s legislative Office of Performance Evaluations (OPE). Margaret reviews drafts of our reports from a nonevaluator’s perspective, as well as copyedits and desktop publishes each report. In this post, we share our thoughts on the importance of
My name is Julie Lo and I’m a research assistant at Public Profit. We help youth service agencies and educational organizations manage what matters. I want to share with you a way of presenting survey data through an embedded interactive interface created using the program Tableau Desktop and later shared online using Tableau Public. We process
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We are Veronica Smith and Chris Metzner. Veronica is principal of data2insight, an evaluation and research firm with data visualization expertise and Chris Metzner is a freelance graphic designer. Matt Keene and Chris created the popular fuzzy logic model for the Oregon Paint Stewardship Pilot Program. The fuzzy logic model concept (FLM) evolved out of
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I’m Johanna Morariu, a Director at Innovation Network, an evaluation consulting firm that works with nonprofit organizations and foundations. Rad Resources: I want to share two extremely useful network analysis and mapping tools: Gephi and NodeXL. I use NodeXL for collecting, organizing, and analyzing network data and Gephi for attractively presenting sociograms or network maps.
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