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Dorian Almont on 5 Must-Read Blogs for Those Working in Nonprofits and Foundations

3 Comments / Nonprofits and Foundations Evaluation / September 1, 2011

Hello, I’m Dorian Almont and I am an independent consultant working primarily to develop measurement capacity with nonprofit community organizations. I’d like to share five blogs that I read, after I’m done reading aea365 of course, to keep up to date on issues in the nonprofit sector. Each regularly includes discussions and contributions focusing on …

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Andrew F. Hayes on Modern Mediation Analysis

1 Comment / Quantitative Methods: Theory and Design / April 16, 2011

I am Andrew F. Hayes, an associate professor at Ohio State University, where I serve on the faculty in the School of Communication and the Department of Psychology. Though formally trained as an experimental social psychologist, I am a quantitative psychologist by vocation and at heart and have devoted the last several years thinking and …

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Na’im, Blackmon, Ortiz, Nixon, Van Dyk, and Yanowitz on Positionality Matters: Understanding Culture and Context from the Perspective of Key Stakeholders

Leave a Comment / Collaborative, Participatory and Empowerment Evaluation, Prek-12 Educational Evaluation / April 18, 2011

This post is brought to you by Alyssa Na’im of the National Science Foundation’s ITEST Learning Resource Center at the Education Development Center, and several members of the ITEST Community of Practice: Angelique Tucker Blackmon, Innovative Learning Concepts, LLC; Araceli M. Ortiz, Sustainable Future, Inc.; Carol Nixon, Edvantia, Inc.; Pam Van Dyk, Evaluation Resources, LLC; and Karen …

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Brian Silvey on Grade Points and Evaluation

3 Comments / Assessment in Higher Education, Prek-12 Educational Evaluation / April 4, 2011

My name is Brian Silvey, and I am an Assistant Professor of Music Education and the Director of the Symphonic Band at the University of Missouri. I constantly struggle with how to best assess my students. One thing I do know is that using a point system does not seem to work for me. What …

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Viola, Patterson, Gray, and Boal on Reflecting on Students’ Self-Assessments of Knowledge Gained through a Program Evaluation Graduate Seminar

Leave a Comment / Assessment in Higher Education, Evaluation Use, Graduate Student and New Evaluators, Teaching of Evaluation, Theories of Evaluation / April 18, 2011

Our names are Wendy Viola, Lindsey Patterson, Mary Gray, and Ashley Boal and we are doctoral students in the Applied Social and Community Psychology program at Portland State University.  This winter, we took a course in Program Evaluation from Dr. Katherine McDonald.  We’d like to share three aspects of the seminar that we felt made …

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Susan Kistler on Thinking Evaluatively in Your Everyday Life

1 Comment / Uncategorized / April 23, 2011

Good afternoon! Susan Kistler here, AEA’s Executive Director and regular Saturday contributor.  I’m posting a little later in the day than usual for those who receive aea365 in real time. Why? On Friday, my husband and I finally completed the purchase of a small cottage in Provincetown on Cape Cod. We’ve been looking for a …

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EPE TIG Week: Annelise Carleton-Hug on Greening Your Evaluation Practice

1 Comment / Environmental Program Evaluation, Independent Consulting / September 1, 2011

I’m Annelise Carleton-Hug, principal evaluator of Trillium Associates, a small evaluation company with a focus on environmental program evaluation. I’m also the Chair of the Environmental Program Evaluation TIG and I invite you to learn more about our TIG by visiting the EPE TIG website. Hot Tip: Consider this aea365 post a conversation starter that …

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EPE TIG Week: Marjorie McRae on Tips for Evaluating Energy Efficiency Programs

Leave a Comment / Environmental Program Evaluation / April 19, 2011

Hello. I’m Marjorie McRae, a Principal with Research Into Action ,Inc., a firm that specializes in process evaluation and market research for energy efficiency and renewable energy programs. Repeated process evaluations and market research studies are great tools for supporting continuous improvement of efficiency and renewable programs. Yet some program administrators think, “It’s too early …

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EPE TIG Week: Michel Ehrlich on Monitoring Legislation

Leave a Comment / Advocacy and Policy Change, Environmental Program Evaluation / April 19, 2011

My name is Michel Ehrlich and I am the Publisher of EU Issue Tracker. We provide regulatory monitoring and tracking services, looking at European Union (EU) regulation and policy, and we cover several major policy areas including Environment, Energy, Transport, and others. There are, of course, a large number of people, in a wide variety …

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EPE TIG Week: Johanna Morariu on an Evaluation Approach for an Environmental Think Tank & Advocacy Organization

1 Comment / Advocacy and Policy Change, Environmental Program Evaluation / April 19, 2011

Hi! I’m Johanna Morariu, Senior Associate with Innovation Network. Innovation Network (http://www.innonet.org/) is an evaluation consulting firm that provides evaluation consulting services to nonprofits and funders, and works to build the sector’s evaluation capacity. I lead Innovation Network’s environmental evaluation work, with a strong concentration on environmental advocacy evaluation. A few months ago we began …

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