AEA365 – Page 475 – A Tip-a-Day by and for Evaluators

Jenell Holstead and Mindy Hightower King on Evaluating Out-of-School Time Activities

Leave a Comment / Prek-12 Educational Evaluation / October 4, 2011 October 2, 2011

Greetings from the Midwest! We are Jenell Holstead (University of Wisconsin-Green Bay) and Mindy Hightower King (Indiana University). For the past eight years, we have evaluated 21st Century Community Learning after school programs both at the local level, as well as statewide initiatives in Indiana and Kentucky. This post discusses best practices for evaluating out-of-school …

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Susan Eliot on Evaluation Stories

2 Comments / Qualitative Methods / October 3, 2011 September 21, 2011

I’m Susan Eliot, an independent qualitative research and evaluation consultant in Portland Oregon. As an applied researcher, I’m continuously searching for creative yet rigorous qualitative approaches that fit my clients’ budgets and capabilities. I recently employed a method called the evaluation story to elicit feedback from elementary and middle school students enrolled in an AmeriCorps …

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Rakesh Mohan and Maureen Brewer on Successfully Navigating Through the Political Maze

Leave a Comment / Government Evaluation / October 2, 2011 September 21, 2011

Greetings from beautiful Boise! We are Rakesh Mohan and Maureen Brewer from the Idaho legislature’s Office of Performance Evaluations. Our post complements previous posts by Dawn Smart (8-30-11) and Tessie Catsambas (9-18-11). Last year, we were asked to evaluate the governance of EMS agencies in Idaho because there were concerns about the duplication of and …

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Susan Kistler on Unconferences and Open Space Technology

3 Comments / Uncategorized / October 1, 2011 October 1, 2011

My name is Susan Kistler. I’m AEA’s Executive Director and I contribute each Saturday’s aea365 post. Last week, I attended an unconference on Data Visualization hosted by tech@state, a program of the U.S. Department of State’s Office of eDiplomacy. Both the format and the content proved to be transformative. First, let’s talk format – in …

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Ayesha Boyce, Maria Jimenez, and Gabriela Juarez on Presenting Cultural and Other Sensitive Evaluation Findings Through Skits

5 Comments / Graduate Student and New Evaluators, International and Cross-cultural Evaluation / September 30, 2011 September 29, 2011

Greetings from Champaign, IL! We are Ayesha Boyce, Maria Jimenez, and Gabriela Juarez. We are all currently pursuing our Ph.D. in evaluation at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. We have found as a multicultural evaluation team that sometimes sensitive topics such as race, class and gender are best presented through creative means. These types of …

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Teaching Tips Week: Nick Fuhrman on Teaching Evaluation Using a Photography Analogy

Leave a Comment / Graduate Student and New Evaluators, Teaching of Evaluation / September 29, 2011 September 29, 2011

I’m Nick Fuhrman, an assistant professor at the University of Georgia and the evaluation specialist for Georgia Cooperative Extension. Let’s face it, to most students and Extension professionals, evaluation is a term that conjures up a multitude of not so pleasant feelings. In fact, when asked in a pre-class survey what comes to mind when …

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Teaching Tips Week: Helen Holmquist-Johnson on Teaching Evaluability Assessment

Leave a Comment / Teaching of Evaluation / September 28, 2011 September 2, 2011

My name is Helen Holmquist-Johnson and I teach a course in program evaluation to Master’s of Social Work students. This tip is on the facilitation of an evaluability assessment – a pre-evaluation tool. Hot Tip: The evaluability assessment has been likened to grooming the slopes before skiing which is a fitting metaphor to use with …

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Teaching Tips Week: Jill Hendrickson Lohmeier on Using Online Discussions for Teaching

1 Comment / Graduate Student and New Evaluators, Teaching of Evaluation / September 27, 2011 September 2, 2011

I am Jill Hendrickson Lohmeier, an assistant professor in the Graduate School of Education at the University of Massachusetts Lowell. Previously I was the Evaluation Director for the School Program Evaluation and Research group at the University of Kansas. I teach an online graduate level program evaluation course every summer, so I will be providing …

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Teaching Tips Week: Nick Fuhrman on Using Graduate Students as Evaluation Consultants

1 Comment / Graduate Student and New Evaluators, Teaching of Evaluation / September 26, 2011 September 2, 2011

I’m Nick Fuhrman, an assistant professor at the University of Georgia and the evaluation specialist for Georgia Cooperative Extension. Teaching is my passion—I love it! From working with our talented Extension professionals in the field to mentoring undergraduate and graduate students on campus, I can’t see myself ever doing anything else. I teach students on …

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Teaching Tips Week: Bonnie Stabile on Making the Most of the AEA Annual Conference

Leave a Comment / Graduate Student and New Evaluators, Teaching of Evaluation / September 25, 2011 September 6, 2011

My name is Bonnie Stabile, and I teach Program Evaluation in the MPP and MPA programs at George Mason University. This year, I am serving as co-chair of the Topical Interest Group (TIG) on the Teaching of Evaluation. All this week, we’ll be hearing from colleagues who will be presenting as part of a special …

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