AEA365 – Page 470 – A Tip-a-Day by and for Evaluators

Cindy Tananis on Being More Efficient and Effective

Leave a Comment / Independent Consulting / November 25, 2011 November 23, 2011

Greetings, Colleagues! I am Cindy Tananis, Director of the Collaborative for Evaluation and Assessment Capacity (CEAC) in the School of Education at the University of Pittsburgh (www.ceac.pitt.edu). Like many evaluation contractors, independent contractors and those in academic settings, the financial crisis looming over many not-for-profit and educational ventures, has hit our client base hard. Evaluation …

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Jennifer Greene on Saying Thank You This Thanksgiving

Leave a Comment / Uncategorized / November 24, 2011 November 22, 2011

My name is Jennifer Greene and I am pleased to be serving as the President of the American Evaluation Association for 2011. Lesson Learned: It takes many volunteers to put on our annual conference – over 800 altogether in various roles. On this day of Thanksgiving, I want to give thanks to all of those …

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Shar McLean and Esteban Colon on Tools for Organizational Assessment

Leave a Comment / Organizational Learning and Evaluation Capacity Building / November 23, 2011 November 23, 2011

We are Shar McLean and Estaeban Colon and today we’re going to tell you about a great resource for tools and tips for assessing organizational effectiveness. Rad Resource – Reflect & Learn: Reflect & Learn is a website filled with tools, case studies, and models focusing on effective use of Organization Assessment (OA). According to …

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Melanie Ann Delano on Online Tutorials for Data Divas

Leave a Comment / Integrating Technology into Evaluation / November 22, 2011 November 26, 2011

My name is Melanie Ann Delano and I am a graduate student, a professional mom, and a part-time consultant. Here is a favorite resource that I wanted to share. Rad Resource – KDMC Tutorials: I recently discovered the Knight Digital Media Center’s (KDMC) Tutorials. KDMC is housed at the UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism. …

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Farah Smith-Bron on AEA’s Topical Interest Groups

Leave a Comment / Uncategorized / November 21, 2011 November 22, 2011

I’m Farah Smith-Bron and I’m learning more about the American Evaluation Association’s Topical Interest Groups. Did you know that AEA has over 40 Topical Interest Groups (TIGs)? These are subgroups of the association (each AEA member can join up to five) that create smaller communities within the larger association. Lesson Learned: TIG stands for Topical …

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Felix Landry on Four Fantastic Open-Access Online Journals for Evaluators and Researchers

1 Comment / Uncategorized / November 20, 2011 November 20, 2011

I am Felix Landry and I work as an independent consultant in North Dakota. I don’t have a large academic library available to me and must rely primarily on online options for my professional reading. AEA members have online access to four journals as part of our membership: The American Journal of Evaluation, New Directions …

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Susan Kistler on 40+ Low-cost/No-cost Tools for Evaluators

4 Comments / Uncategorized / November 19, 2011 November 21, 2011

My name is Susan Kistler. I am the American Evaluation Association’s Executive Director and I contribute each Saturday’s aea365 post. At AEA’s annual conference in Anaheim earlier this month LaMarcus Bolton and I gave a demonstration of low-cost/no-cost tools for evaluators. We shared great tools that we’ve used, ones recommended by colleagues via aea365, and …

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Corinna Souza on Wikis for Collaboration

Leave a Comment / Collaborative, Participatory and Empowerment Evaluation, Evaluation Managers and Supervisors / November 17, 2011 November 17, 2011

I am Corinna Souza and I am an evaluator at evalutechnica. Our small firm works primarily with regional school districts. Lately, I’ve been on the lookout for tools to help my evaluation team work collaboratively. There are four of us, working from two different offices, plus our key liaison to the schools with which we …

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Evaluation 2011 Delegates on Conference Handouts and Materials in the AEA Public eLibrary

Leave a Comment / Uncategorized / November 16, 2011 November 16, 2011

Did you know that there are over 150 new items in the AEA Public eLibrary from the Evaluation 2011 conference held earlier this month in Anaheim with more being added daily? And, did you know that they are all available to the public for free download? Here are just a few of the recent additions …

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