My name is Käri Greene and I’m a Senior Research Analyst at Program Design & Evaluation Services, an intergovernmental agency for the Oregon Public Health Division and Multnomah County Health Department. I first started using software with qualitative data analysis back when the main QSR product was called NUD*IST. And I’ll admit – I got […]
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My name is Susan Kistler. I am AEA’s Executive Director and I arrived today in Anaheim to finalize preparations for AEA’s annual conference that begins on Monday. Hot Tip: There is a food court right in the Hilton Anaheim – and you’d never know it unless you look. Go left from the registration desk for
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My name is Kara Crohn. I am a Research Manager for EMI (http://www.emiconsulting.com). We are best known for our research and evaluation related to energy efficiency. We also assist clients with strategic planning, policy, program design, and program optimization. EMI is based in Seattle, Washington. I had the good fortune to start our Southern California
I am Connie Hoskins, a Research Associate at Vital Research, a research and evaluation consulting firm in the education, health, social services, aging services, and corporate sectors. Although we are based in Los Angeles, we conduct a great deal of our work in other states and nationwide. In one biennial project, we conduct interviews with
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Greetings. We are Bill Shennum and Kate LaVelle, staff members in the Research Department at Five Acres, a nonprofit child and family services agency located in Altadena, CA and serving the greater Los Angeles area. We work as internal evaluators to support outcome measurement and continuous quality improvement within the organization. In our roles as
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We are Leslie Fierro, former CDC ETA and Deanna Rossi, California Breathing asthma program evaluator, and we’d like to share some of the issues that make California’s asthma program unique and some of the resources we’ve used to facilitate evaluation in this context. California is one of 36 states receiving funds from CDC to implement
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My name is Bonnie Richards, and I am a Research Associate with Vital Research, an evaluation and consulting company located in Los Angeles, California. The Social Services sector is among the industries we serve when designing and implementing evaluation projects. Lessons Learned: So, what frames a Social Services evaluation project? Consider how values and valuing
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Hi! This is Anne Vo from the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) and John LaVelle from Claremont Graduate University (CGU). We are the Co-directors of the Southern California Evaluation Association (SCEA), a local affiliate of the American Evaluation Association (AEA). Today marks the launch of the SCEA-themed week on aea365 so we will be
My name is Susan Kistler and I am the Executive Director for the American Evaluation Association. You likely know that AEA’s annual conference is coming up the week beginning October 30. What you may not know is that conference presenters are strongly encouraged to share handouts and supplementary materials via the AEA public eLibrary. Rad
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I’m John Nash and I’m the program co-chair, with Stuart Henderson, for the American Evaluation Association’s new Topical Interest Group, Data Visualization and Reporting (DVR TIG). I’m here to tell you about some innovative events taking place in Anaheim during the 2011 AEA Conference. Hot Tip: Ignite Yourself at the Conference You don’t need matches
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