Hello, My name is Michael Duttweiler and I am assistant director for program development and accountability for Cornell University Cooperative Extension. One of my roles is to provide evaluation planning assistance to local extension educators, many of whom do not have formal backgrounds in program development or evaluation. Hot Tip: Focusing an Evaluation Using a …
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Hi, my name is Ellen Taylor-Powell; I am an evaluation specialist at the University of Wisconsin-Extension. Evaluation capacity building is my passion. Over my career, I’ve had the pleasure to partner with extension educators who excel in making learning relevant, practical and fun! I’d like to let you know about two resources that bring together …
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Hi! My name is Nancy Franz, and I am a Professor and Extension Specialist at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University. I’m also the past chair of the AEA Extension Education Evaluation TIG. Today I’ll be sharing some information on different approaches used in extension education evaluation. Hot Tip: As the figure below illustrates, community …
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My name is Susan Kistler, AEA’s Executive Director, and I contribute each Saturday’s aea365 post. Earlier this week, I had the pleasure of speaking about the democratization of data at the AEA/CDC Summer Evaluation Institute. While a candidate, US President Barak Obama committed to putting government data online in universally accessible formats (see here). At …
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Hello, I am Melvin Mark, Professor and Head of Psychology at Penn State University. When you read books or articles about evaluation, the focus typically is on doing an upcoming evaluation. Given that conducting individual evaluations is what evaluators are usually hired to do, this focus of our books, articles, and conversations makes sense. Hot …
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I’m Linda Lee, partner in a Canadian social research and program evaluation company. We work in the public and not-for-profit sectors often evaluating programs that concern children and youth. Both in our work in Canada and internationally, we are frequently working in communities that have been marginalized, such as First Nations communities in Canada or …
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Hi! My name is Hazel Atuel and I am the Research Program Director at the Comprehensive San Diego State University/UC San Diego Cancer Center Partnership. Today I will be sharing some hot tips and rad resources on community competency. I am grateful to Dr. Bob Robinson, Associate Director for Health Equity of the Office on …
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Hi, my name is Bi Deng. I am a doctoral student at Claremont Graduate University (CGU) studying Organizational Behavior with a co-concentration in Evaluation. Back in 2009, I attended a CGU workshop by our GIS specialist Warren Roberts and was blown away by the utility of GIS in social science research, particularly for evaluation projects. …
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Hello! My name is Sheila Kohn, and I teach Program Evaluation Methods at the University of Rochester’s Warner School of Education. I’d like to share a Cool Trick and Hot Tip for other evaluation educators. I was very excited by AEA’s announcement of a daily evaluation blog and have faithfully read each entry since January …
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My name is Norma Martinez-Rubin and I am an independent program evaluator, occasional trainer, and public health practitioner. Having chosen program evaluation as a second-career focus (www.EvaluationFocused.com) the necessity to ramp up, jump in, and practice the art and science of evaluation as best possible led me to revisit a career strategy to which I …
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