Hello! My name is Charles Gasper and I am the Director of Evaluation for the Missouri Foundation for Health. I am also co-chair for the Non-Profit and Foundations TIG. I am pleased to announce that this week the AEA365 blog will be focusing on specific issues on evaluation in support of funders and non-profits. Hot …
NPF Week: Charles Gasper on Getting Involved in the NPF TIG Read More »
My name is Susan Kistler and I am the Executive Director of the American Evaluation Association. I contribute each Saturday’s post to aea365. AEA365 was and is an experiment – it is a work in progress. Since January 1, 2010 when we started, we’ve evolved the format, dropped ‘blog’ from the name (having discovered that …
Susan Kistler on aea365 on your Cell, Bookmarking Keyword Searches, & Eval 2010 Prep Read More »
Hi, my name is Debbie Cohen. I am the Director of Evaluation at Community Mental Health Center, Inc., a community mental health center that serves five rural counties in Southeastern Indiana. One of my roles in the agency is to work with Indiana University to evaluate a Systems of Care collaborative that involves children utilizing …
Internal Evaluation Week: Debbie Cohen on Working with External Evaluators Read More »
Hello Colleagues. My name is Susan Hibbard and I am an Assistant Professor of Research & Evaluation at Florida Gulf Coast University. Through my work conducting research on evaluation, I experienced difficulty in recruiting participants for focus groups due to political sensitivity. I wanted to conduct focus groups with personnel who conduct program evaluations as …
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Hello colleagues! My name is Aubrey W. Perry, a graduate student in the Community Psychology doctorate program at Portland State University. I have had the privilege of working on two evaluation practicum projects before completing my master’s requirements. Through the completion of these projects, I have learned several actions that can be taken to ensure …
Aubrey Perry on Ensuring a Positive Practica Experience Read More »
My name is Judah Viola and I am a Community Psychologist at National-Louis University in Chicago. I also manage an independent consulting practice specializing in program evaluation and collaborative community research. Whether boom or bust economy, it is never a bad time to build your own evaluation skills and capacity to provide value for clients. …
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I’m Mario Lurig, the Technical Training Manager at SurveyGizmo, an online survey software tool. Translation: I help evaluators become survey rockstars for their clients. Hot Tips: There are 3 unique questions that evaluators need to keep in the forefront of their mind when surveying respondents: Is there an easier way to get my data? How …
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My name is Steve Kymes and I am the Director of the Center for Economic Evaluation in Medicine (CEEM) at Washington University in St. Louis. At CEEM, we assist investigators conducting clinical or community based research design, and implement and conduct cost-benefit and cost-effectiveness studies. While it may often seem that conducting valid and credible …
Steve Kymes on Incorporating Economic Evaluation into Program Evaluation Read More »
My name is Susan Kistler and I am AEA’s Executive Director. I contribute each Saturday’s aea365 post. Many years ago I taught survey and instrument design at the University of Minnesota, and survey methodology is an issue near and dear to my heart. Thus, this week, I want to share a few resources from the …
Susan Kistler on Survey Response Rate, Sample Size, Disclosure, from AAPOR Read More »
I am Karen Zannini Bull, the Assistant Director of Distance Learning at Onondaga Community college and doctoral student at Syracuse University in Instructional Design, Development and Evaluation. My interests reside in Evaluation Theory and what comprises a good evaluation decision. With that in mind, I wanted to share lessons learned and a great resource for …
Poster Week: Karen Zannini Bull on Making Good Evaluation Decisions Read More »
