Hello wonderful evaluators! I’m Susan Kistler, AEA’s Executive Director, and I contribute (almost) each Saturday’s aea365 post. Today, I wanted to thank our CPE colleagues for great posts this week (and – a preview for tomorrow – a bonus post form Abraham Wandersman) and all the work that they have done to bring together the …
Hi, I am Lyn Shulha, Director of the Assessment and Evaluation Group, Queen’s University, Kingston, Canada. I have found that after 20 years of practice, I am still becoming a participatory evaluator. It is important to continue asking, “Is participatory work right for me?” This question pushes me into an ongoing assessment of my own …
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My name is Beverly Triana-Tremain and I am the President & Owner of Public Health Consulting, LLC. I want to share with you one of my favorite quotes by Mark Twain, “A habit cannot be tossed out the window…it must be coaxed down the stairs one step at a time.” This quote is never more …
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My name is Linda F. Delaney and I serve as a program evaluator for my own company, LFD Consulting, LLC, in Cordova, Tennessee. In addition to independent consulting, I am currently employed as the Learning Coordinator for the City of Memphis Academy of Learning and Development. In this role, one of my primary concerns is …
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I am José M. Díaz-Puente, professor of the Technical University of Madrid (Universidad Politécnica de Madrid–UPM) where I am member of the Research Group GESPLAN on Sustainable Planning and Management of Rural/Local Development. I have worked with participatory and empowerment evaluation approaches in rural areas of Europe and Latin America. I would like to share …
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I am Liliana Rodríguez-Campos, Co-Chair of the Collaborative, Participatory, and Empowerment Evaluation TIG. I am also an evaluation professor and the director of the Center for Research, Evaluation, Assessment and Measurement at the University of South Florida. Among other achievements, I received the American Evaluation Association’s Marcia Guttentag Award. During my evaluation career I have …
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I am David Fetterman, past-president of the American Evaluation Association and co-chair of the Collaborative, Participatory and Empowerment Evaluation TIG. I have 25 years of experience at Stanford University. Fetterman & Associates is my international evaluation consulting firm. I am also a professor of education in the School of Education at the University of Arkansas …
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We are Paul Brandon and Landry Fukunaga from the University of Hawai‘i at M?noa. Stakeholder involvement in program evaluation is one of the most enduring topics in the program evaluation literature, but empirical research on the topic has been summarized only within limited domains. We conducted a literature review of empirical research, examining 7,580 publications …
My name is Beth Robelia. I am the proprietor of a micro-business that focuses on STEM education research, curriculum development and program evaluation. In evaluating the effectiveness of social media, the disbursed nature of users may make face-to-face focus groups impractical. Online focus groups can bridge the gap in geography by placing participants in an …
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My name is Hanife Cakici and I am a second year graduate student in the Master of Public Policy program at the Humphrey School of Public Affairs, University of Minnesota, focusing on advanced policy analysis and program evaluation. Coming to U.S as a Turkish Fulbright student has generated a deep curiosity in me to investigate …
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