My name is Susan Kistler. I serve as the American Evaluation Association’s Executive Director and I provide each Saturday’s post for aea365. Rad Resource: This week, I am reading Atul Gawande’s The Checklist Manifesto: How to Get Things Right. It is a paean to monitoring if not evaluation. Gawande weaves a tale of how checklists …
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Greetings, I am Nicole Lewis, an Assistant Professor in the College of Education at the University of Kentucky. I teach program evaluation courses and serve as the evaluator for various grant-funded initiatives. One of the challenges of teaching program evaluation courses is creating meaningful opportunities for students to apply what they learn in the classroom …
My name is Dianne Hofner Saphiere and I am Founder and Principal at Cultural Detective®. We are a team of international professionals who collaborate to produce practical tools that use a theoretically grounded, proven process for enhancing intercultural competence. At Evaluation 2011 I’ll be facilitating a session entitled “Interculturally Competent Evaluation,” so I appreciate this …
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I am Frances Julia Riemer from Professional Evaluation and Assessment Consultants (PEAC). PEAC specializes in school-based evaluations, regularly incorporating ethnographic methods in our work. I’ve also conducted several full-scale ethnographic evaluations of government and non-governmental funded initiatives in and outside the US and in and outside schools. These were both summative and formative; they illuminated …
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My name is Penny Black and I am a Public Health Program Evaluator at the University of Wisconsin’s Population Health Institute. As an evaluator, I am often called upon to present or facilitate discussions of evaluation results. Rad Resource – Prezi: For years, the presentation tool standard has been Microsoft PowerPoint. I have recently begun …
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My name is Teri Garstka and I am currently a Research Associate in the Institute for Educational Research and Public Service at the University of Kansas. We have a wide portfolio of research and evaluation projects in early childhood, child welfare and youth programs, and family services. We work with lots of state, local, and …
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Greetings from Maryland! I am Tessie Catsambas of EnCompass LLC, an evaluation, leadership, and organizational development organization. How easy it is to get lost in a client’s maze of politics, anxiety, stress, and complexities! And how easy it is to step on toes you do not even know were there! This post discusses strategies for …
My name is Susan Kistler. I am the American Evaluation Association’s Executive Director and contributor of each Saturday’s aea365 post. I grew up on an island, spent months in a car touring Mexico, lived in a nurse’s dormitory while teaching statistics in Hong Kong, and have visited what certainly must be the most unique sculpture …
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Greetings from beautiful Boise! We are Rakesh Mohan and Bryon Welch from the Idaho legislature’s Office of Performance Evaluations. Last February, the Idaho legislature asked us to evaluate the state’s new system for processing Medicaid claims. Legislators had received many constituent complaints that claims from Medicaid providers were being denied, delayed, or inaccurately processed. Legislators …
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My name is Ariana Brooks and I am the Director of Evaluation, Research and Planning for HeartShare Human Services. Lesson Learned: When I started as an internal evaluator my supervisor, Stan Capela, stressed to me one main point: evaluation does not solve management problems. My initial reaction was it made sense and remember similar issues …
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