I am Susan Kistler, The American Evaluation Association’s Executive Director, and aea365’s ongoing Saturday contributor. Hot Tip: We’re looking for an aea365 intern! The aea365 intern is responsible for: Recruiting contributors – send invitations, work with leaders of sponsoring groups Shepherding contributors – send reminders, ask questions, give thanks Providing final copyediting – copyedit and […]
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Hello! We’re Judy Savageau and Linda Cabral from the Center for Health Policy and Research at the University of Massachusetts Medical School. Recently, we developed a journal club which convenes interested evaluators quarterly to discuss selected article(s) on evaluation research principles or methodologies. The journal club also networks parties from across our medical school’s multiple
My name is Joshua Joseph and I’m a Sr. Program Manager at Partnership for Public Service, a non-profit that works to revitalize the federal government by focusing on people and performance. This post is about recruiting study participants – a companion to Elisabeth Autio’s aea365 post from December of 2011. In line with Elisabeth’s good
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I’m Johanna Morariu, co-director at Innovation Network, an evaluation consulting firm that works with nonprofit organizations and foundations. Rad Resource: Every now and then I come across an article or book that makes me fundamentally rethink what I thought I knew. One that I want to share with you all is the book Proofiness: The
Cindy Banyai of the Refocus Institute, a consultancy specializing in participatory evaluation using visual methods, and graduate of Ritsumeikan Asia Pacific University, here to discuss my experience working and researching in Asia. This post was inspired by the AEA365 post from Efrain Gutierrez on interviews with Latinos. Efrain’s perspective on cross-cultural data gathering resonated with
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Hello! I am Sheila Robinson Kohn, and I teach Program Evaluation Methods at the University of Rochester’s Warner School of Education. In June 2010, my post Using the AEA365 Blog as a Teaching Tool appeared here, and since then, my graduate students have continued to read and share aea365 blog entries in class. Last November,
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I’m Kelly Robertson and I am a project manager at The Evaluation Center at Western Michigan University and a student in the Interdisciplinary Ph.D. in Evaluation (IDPE). My co-presenter at AEA’s 2011 conference was fellow IDPE student and teacher, Diane Rogers. The title of our presentation was, “Race or Racism? Value Implications and Practical Solutions.”
I’m Susan Kistler, the American Evaluation Association’s Executive Director, and I post each Saturday to aea365. On January 1, 2010, we started aea365 with three subscribers – myself, John LaVelle our intrepid intern responsible for overseeing aea365 startup, and a relative who shall remain unnamed but wanted to support our efforts. In the first few
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Hello. I’m Ehren Reed and I am a Director with Innovation Network. For several years, much of my work has involved the evaluation of advocacy and policy change efforts. During that time, I have witnessed this topic grow from a conversation between a small cadre of evaluators and funders to a full-fledged field with an
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I’m Tayo Fabusuyi, lead strategist at Numeritics, a Pittsburgh-based research and consulting practice. While advocacy has been around since humans were first able to give voice to different opinions, the evaluation of advocacy efforts is still very much in its infancy. One of the hallmarks of a nascent field is the absence of consensus on
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