AEA365 – Page 485 – A Tip-a-Day by and for Evaluators

Alberta Mirambeau on Program Stakeholders and Evaluation Stakeholders

My name is Alberta Mirambeau and I am an ORISE fellow on the Evaluation and Program Effectiveness Team in the Division for Heart Disease and Stroke Prevention at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. I provide evaluation technical assistance to state-funded programs that implement heart disease and stroke prevention activities. Our team uses the …

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Antonio J. Castro on Program Evaluation: More than Just Numbers

Hello. I’m Antonio J. Castro, and I am an assistant professor in the Department of Learning, Teaching, and Curriculum at the University of Missouri-Columbia. I teach courses in qualitative research and have been project director and coordinator for a variety of grant-funded initiatives. Project directors are constantly tasked with trying to represent the quality of …

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Elizabeth Yuanjing Wilcox on Certification of Evaluators

Leave a Comment / Advocacy and Policy Change / May 11, 2011 April 18, 2011

Hi, this is Elizabeth Yuanjing Wilcox, a doctoral candidate of Evaluation Studies at University of Minnesota. Here are my two cents on credentialing and certification of evaluators. In light of Canadian Evaluation Society’s success in launching the Credentialed Evaluator (CE) designation in 2010, AEA started wondering about instituting a certification and/or credentialing program in America. …

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Doug Koch on Key Lessons Learned in Evaluating Teaching Effectiveness

Leave a Comment / Assessment in Higher Education / May 10, 2011 April 18, 2011

My name is Doug Koch, I am an assistant professor in the Department of Industrial and Engineering Technology at Southeast Missouri State University. As a university faculty member I find it both ironic and concerning that faculty evaluation instruments often have some very basic issues. Being knee-deep in the promotion and tenure process, I thought …

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LeKisha M. Harris and Chris St. Vil on the Role of Culturally Competent Evaluators

Leave a Comment / Graduate Student and New Evaluators / May 9, 2011 April 18, 2011

Hello! We are LeKisha M. Harris and Chris St. Vil, interns in AEA’s Graduate Education Diversity Internship (GEDI) program. GEDI interns are graduate students who, through a nine-month internship and participation in various workshops throughout the year, gain hands-on experience in evaluation. LeKisha is a 2nd year Master’s student at the University of Georgia School …

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Jill Ostrow on Using Rubrics to Self-Assess

4 Comments / Assessment in Higher Education / May 8, 2011 April 18, 2011

I am Dr. Jill Ostrow, an Assistant Professor of Teaching in the Department of Learning, Teaching, and Curriculum at the University of Missouri. I coordinate and teach a yearlong online capstone graduate course titled, Classroom Research. The first half of the course is devoted to learning about Classroom Research: developing the question, collecting data, and beginning …

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Susan Kistler on Getting More From Google

1 Comment / Integrating Technology into Evaluation / May 7, 2011 May 7, 2011

Good day! Susan Kistler here, AEA’s Executive Director and aea365 regular Saturday contributor. Everyone has used Google to search (ok almost everyone) but here are five items I’ve used from Google in the past month that you may not yet know about. Hot Tip: First, in most cases, you’ll need a google account. They are …

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EdEval Week: Manolya Tanyu on a Basic Understanding of Multilevel Modeling

Leave a Comment / Prek-12 Educational Evaluation, Quantitative Methods: Theory and Design / May 5, 2011 May 6, 2011

My name is Manolya Tanyu and I am a researcher at American Institutes for Research (AIR), a behavioral and social science research organization to support education, educational assessment, health, international development, and work and training. My former organization, Learning Point Associates recently merged with AIR. Our world is a nested one where individuals are influenced …

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EdEval Week: Chad Green on Nested Outcome Models

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

Chad Green here on the utility of Costa and Garmston’s maturing outcomes map from yesterday’s post. If you revisit this colorful framework, you will notice that the nested concepts form a learning continuum, ranging from concrete to abstract, similar to the outcomes in a logic model. However, if you dabble in cognitive neuroscience like myself, …

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