My name is Theresa Murphrey and I am on the faculty at Texas A&M University. I teach both traditional classroom based student as well as distance-based learners from around the world. I have been working with a new tool that I have found to be extremely useful in facilitating teaching and learning. Rad Resource: Jing …
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My name is Claire Tourmen and I am an assistant professor in education science, in France (AgroSup Dijon). I study evaluators’ practices, skills and training. I’m interested in explaining evaluation to people who don’t know it (people involved in an evaluation for the first time, students etc.) it and I’ll share with you a simple …
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My name is Shanelle Boyle and I am a Research Assistant at EvalCorp Research & Consulting. Evaluation capacity building is not only a major interest of mine, but helping clients learn from and about evaluation is central to my everyday work. I would like to share a couple Websites that I turn to for ideas …
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My name is Susan Kistler and I am the Executive Director of the American Evaluation Association. It is my pleasure to contribute each Saturday’s post to the aea365 blog. One challenge for me is organizing and finding the volumes of files and emails on my computer. Towards that end, I offer one Hot Tip and …
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My name is SaraJoy Pond, and I am a doctoral candidate at Brigham Young University. I’m particularly interested in evaluation capacity-building for social change. Cool Trick: Chances are, if you’ve worked at all with qualitative data sets, you know the feeling of “drowning in data.” The end of an evaluation engagement often leaves me swimming …
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Kia ora koutou! My name is Jane Davidson and I run an evaluation consulting and capacity building business based in New Zealand. My main clients are NZ central government agencies across multiple sectors (health, education, leadership development, corrections, etc), but I also work with various other kinds of organizations and run evaluation training as well. …
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My name is Michael Harnar and I’m an advanced graduate student in Evaluation at Claremont Graduate University. I’ve always been interested in capturing and managing data and my tool of choice is FileMaker Pro because it works on both the Macintosh and Windows platforms. I’ll give you a few tips on how to use it …
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My name is David Fetterman, and I am President and CEO of Fetterman & Associates (with 25 years of experience at Stanford University). I work in many areas of evaluation including, as you may know – empowerment evaluation. One of my primary concerns is fostering collaboration in evaluation. I have presented a few FREE tools …
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My name is Kile Dyer, and I am the Director of Organizational Development and Training at Fox Entertainment Group. One of my interests is pursuing the “holy grail” of the development field, demonstrating the ROI. I’ll be sharing a couple of successful practices and great resources that can help you build a scorecard framework for …
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My name is Stephen J. Gill. I’m author of Developing a Learning Culture in Nonprofit Organizations (SAGE, 2010)*. This might not sound like a book for evaluators, but it is. The book is about how the process of collecting, reflecting on, and learning from evaluative information can help nonprofits become more successful organizations. Nineteen evaluation …
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