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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 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 / 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 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 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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Michelle Baron on Involving Stakeholders in the Evaluation Process

Leave a Comment / Collaborative, Participatory and Empowerment Evaluation, Organizational Learning and Evaluation Capacity Building / June 4, 2011

Hello, I’m Michelle Baron. I am the Associate Director at The Evaluators’ Institute (an evaluation training organization), and the Chair of the aea365 Tip-a-Day Team. Today I’d like to share with you some strategies for involving stakeholders in the evaluation process. In today’s fast-paced, information rich world, one of the most helpful pieces of guidance …

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Susan Kistler on the AEA Graduate Education Diversity Internship

Leave a Comment / Graduate Student and New Evaluators, Indigenous Peoples in Evaluation, Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgender Issues, Multiethnic Issues in Evaluation / June 3, 2011

Susan Kistler here, AEA’s Executive Director and Saturday contributor for aea365. I’m excited to be able to share this week that AEA is now taking applications for the AEA Graduate Education Diversity Internship (GEDI) Program. The goals of GEDI are to: Expand the pool of graduate students of color and from other underrepresented groups who …

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John Colon on Nine Tech Tools That Make Life Easier

4 Comments / Data Visualization and Reporting, Independent Consulting, Integrating Technology into Evaluation / June 1, 2011

My name is John Colon and I work for Better Questions Better Answers. I’m amazed by what is available, for free, for my computer. Here are some of my favorite, can’t live without, better than sliced bread tools. Rad Resources: I’d like to share 9 tools that make my life easier. 10: Gantzilla: Free version …

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Laurel Lamb on the Golden Rule for Evaluators

2 Comments / Graduate Student and New Evaluators / June 1, 2011

My name is Laurel Lamb and I’ve been a practicing evaluator (although sometimes under the guise of organizational development) for over twenty years. When I sat down to write, I wanted to contemplate what I would share with someone new coming into the field. What have I learned that you couldn’t find in a textbook …

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