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Katrina Brewsaugh and Stephen Brehm on Rational Target Setting Methodology

2 Comments / Quantitative Methods: Theory and Design / December 4, 2011

Hello!  We are Katrina Brewsaugh, and Stephen Brehm.  We are the Data Team at One Hope United, an agency providing a wide range of child and family services in Illinois, Missouri, and Florida. Evaluators are often tasked with measuring how a program is meeting performance measures and making recommendations on whether programs that are not …

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Naomi Walsh on a Must-Have Free Timeline Maker

12 Comments / Data Visualization and Reporting, Independent Consulting / December 4, 2011

I’m Naomi Walsh and I am a novice consultant. One of the challenges of breaking into consulting is presenting yourself as a professional. One way that I do this is to share timelines for projects that I am working on – they show that I am organized and prepared, and provide a visual planning aid …

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Susan Kistler on Seeking Contributors for aea365

Leave a Comment / Uncategorized / December 7, 2011

If it is Saturday, it must be Susan. I’m Susan Kistler, the American Evaluation Association’s Executive Director, and I contribute each Saturday’s post to aea365. Today’s post is a call to action. Hot Tip – aea365 is seeking contributors: Yes! We’re looking for aea365 authors to fill the new year with great content spanning the …

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Shelby First on HackCollege and Making the Most of Google Search

Leave a Comment / Graduate Student and New Evaluators / December 3, 2011

I’m Shelby First, an overworked, underpaid, totally exhausted, happy with my life, graduate student. This is a companion piece to the one written by John VanDyke earlier this week, John wrote about Lifehacker, Zenhabits, and MakeUseOf – three of my favorite  sites for hacking your life by finding those little efficiencies and tools that make …

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Denise Roseland on Building Credibility at a Distance

Leave a Comment / Independent Consulting / December 1, 2011

Greetings everyone! I am Denise Roseland, an independent consultant with Minneapolis-based Social Venture Research & Evaluation. I have moved five times in four years and the benefit of working as a consultant is that my work moves with me.  While many of my clients were once in my backyard, the many moves mean we are …

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Josey Landrieu on Collaborative Evaluation

3 Comments / Collaborative, Participatory and Empowerment Evaluation / November 30, 2011

My name is Josey Landrieu, Assistant Professor in Program Evaluation at the University of Minnesota Extension Center for Youth Development. One of the things I enjoy the most about my work is the opportunity to collaborate with external partners in research and evaluation projects. Liliana Rodriguez-Campos (2005) defines collaborative evaluation as “an evaluation in which there …

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John VanDyke on Resources for Improving Your Everyday Life

3 Comments / Uncategorized / November 30, 2011

I’m John VanDyke and this post is about work/life balance. It applies to everyone, but to evaluators in particular because we are an inquisitive lot – always seeking out how to do things better, more effectively, more efficiently, with improved outcomes and fewer inputs. This post applies to those who turn that same inquisitive outlook …

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Linda Cabral on Using Cultural Brokers on Evaluation Teams

1 Comment / Behavioral Health, Collaborative, Participatory and Empowerment Evaluation, Multiethnic Issues in Evaluation / November 28, 2011

Hello, I’m Linda Cabral, a Senior Project Director from the Center for Health Policy and Research at the University of Massachusetts Medical School. In an effort to more fully engage people from different cultural backgrounds and their communities in one of our recently-completed qualitative evaluation projects for our State’s Department of Mental Health, we employed …

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Rita Overton on Why I’m Thankful to Be an Evaluator

1 Comment / Independent Consulting / December 1, 2011

My name is Rita Overton and I have been an evaluator for 20 years. I’ve called myself an organizational development specialist, an applied researcher, and a strategic consultant, but at the heart of it all, I am an evaluator. When I started working in this field, I found it difficult to explain what I did …

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Susan Kistler on Making Us Laugh to Win a Great Book from SAGE Publications

19 Comments / Data Visualization and Reporting / November 26, 2011

I’m Susan Kistler, AEA’s Executive Director, and I contribute each Saturday’s post to aea365. At the annual conference earlier this month, I had the opportunity to attend the Data Visualization and Reporting group’s innovative business meeting. They filled the meeting with short Ignite presentations interspersed with fun activities (well at least to evaluators!). Lesson Learned: …

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