AEA365 – Page 471 – A Tip-a-Day by and for Evaluators

Guili Zhang on Longitudinal Data Management and Analysis

2 Comments / Quantitative Methods: Theory and Design / March 29, 2011 February 14, 2011

My name is Guili Zhang. I am an Assistant Professor of Research and Evaluation Methodology at East Carolina University. During the last ten years, I have evaluated the National Science Foundation’s SUCCEED program, and developed and analyzed the SUCCEED longitudinal database, which includes data from nine universities and spans 20 years. Our research team’s publications …

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John Wedman on Using the Performance Pyramid in Evaluation

Hello. I’m John Wedman, an administrator at the University of Missouri and former business owner. One of our business services was evaluating corporate training programs. Not surprisingly, some programs fell short of producing the desired results. Was the training lacking or was something else going on? Answering that question led us to develop the Performance …

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CPE Week Bonus: Abraham Wandersman on Empowerment Accountability

2 Comments / Collaborative, Participatory and Empowerment Evaluation / March 27, 2011 March 25, 2011

I am Abraham Wandersman, past-president of the American Psychological Association Division 27 – Community Psychology. I am also a professor of psychology at the University of South Carolina at Columbia. I have worked with David Fetterman and a long list of students and colleagues over the years on empowerment evaluation issues, articles, and books for …

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CPE Week: Susan Kistler on Sharing Tools for Collaborative, Participatory, and Empowerment Evaluation to Win a copy of Empowerment Evaluation Principles in Practice

20 Comments / Collaborative, Participatory and Empowerment Evaluation, Integrating Technology into Evaluation / March 26, 2011 March 25, 2011

Hello wonderful evaluators! I’m Susan Kistler, AEA’s Executive Director, and I contribute (almost) each Saturday’s aea365 post. Today, I wanted to thank our CPE colleagues for great posts this week (and – a preview for tomorrow – a bonus post form Abraham Wandersman) and all the work that they have done to bring together the …

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CPE Week: Lyn Shulha on Reinventing Your Identity as a Participatory Evaluator

1 Comment / Collaborative, Participatory and Empowerment Evaluation / March 25, 2011 March 6, 2011

Hi, I am Lyn Shulha, Director of the Assessment and Evaluation Group, Queen’s University, Kingston, Canada. I have found that after 20 years of practice, I am still becoming a participatory evaluator. It is important to continue asking, “Is participatory work right for me?” This question pushes me into an ongoing assessment of my own …

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CPE Week: Beverly Triana-Tremain on Relationship Building

1 Comment / Collaborative, Participatory and Empowerment Evaluation / March 24, 2011 February 18, 2011

My name is Beverly Triana-Tremain and I am the President & Owner of Public Health Consulting, LLC. I want to share with you one of my favorite quotes by Mark Twain, “A habit cannot be tossed out the window…it must be coaxed down the stairs one step at a time.” This quote is never more …

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CPE Week: Linda Delaney on Performance Appraisals

2 Comments / Collaborative, Participatory and Empowerment Evaluation / March 23, 2011 February 18, 2011

My name is Linda F. Delaney and I serve as a program evaluator for my own company, LFD Consulting, LLC, in Cordova, Tennessee. In addition to independent consulting, I am currently employed as the Learning Coordinator for the City of Memphis Academy of Learning and Development. In this role, one of my primary concerns is …

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CPE Week: José M. Díaz–Puente on the Empowerment Evaluator’s Role

1 Comment / Collaborative, Participatory and Empowerment Evaluation / March 22, 2011 February 18, 2011

I am José M. Díaz-Puente, professor of the Technical University of Madrid (Universidad Politécnica de Madrid–UPM) where I am member of the Research Group GESPLAN on Sustainable Planning and Management of Rural/Local Development. I have worked with participatory and empowerment evaluation approaches in rural areas of Europe and Latin America. I would like to share …

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CPE Week: Liliana Rodriguez-Campos on Collaborative Evaluation

3 Comments / Collaborative, Participatory and Empowerment Evaluation / March 21, 2011 February 18, 2011

I am Liliana Rodríguez-Campos, Co-Chair of the Collaborative, Participatory, and Empowerment Evaluation TIG. I am also an evaluation professor and the director of the Center for Research, Evaluation, Assessment and Measurement at the University of South Florida. Among other achievements, I received the American Evaluation Association’s Marcia Guttentag Award. During my evaluation career I have …

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CPE Week: David Fetterman on Empowerment Evaluation

4 Comments / Collaborative, Participatory and Empowerment Evaluation / March 20, 2011 April 20, 2011

I am David Fetterman, past-president of the American Evaluation Association and co-chair of the Collaborative, Participatory and Empowerment Evaluation TIG. I have 25 years of experience at Stanford University. Fetterman & Associates is my international evaluation consulting firm. I am also a professor of education in the School of Education at the University of Arkansas …

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