Hello! We are Sheila Robinson Kohn from Greece Central School District and University of Rochester in NY, and Chad Green, from Loudoun County Public Schools in northern VA. We’re program co-chairs for the PreK-12 Educational Evaluation TIG and we welcome you to our sponsored AEA365 week, in honor of Teacher Appreciation Week. We’d like to …
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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. Lessons Learned: In evaluating afterschool programs, primarily 21st Century Community …
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Hi! I’m Tiffany Berry, a Research Associate Professor in developmental psychology and practicing program evaluator at Claremont Graduate University’s Institute of Organizational and Program Evaluation Research (IOPER). I evaluate a variety of educational institutions, including schools, after school programs, districts, county offices of education, and textbook publishers, among others. Throughout my evaluations, I have consistently …
I’m Susan Kistler, AEA’s Executive Director, and regular aea365 Saturday contributor. I was inspired by Dorian’s 4/28 post on 5 must-read blogs for those working in nonprofits, and thought I would share a few must see/hear webcasts and podcasts with which you may not be familiar. Rad Resource – Videos on Evaluation Methods from UNICEF: …
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My name is Sherry Boyce, Extension Educator in Program Evaluation with the University of Minnesota Extension Center for Youth Development. I have worked for Extension for 30 years, in a variety of youth development roles. I have also done extensive photography as a volunteer with several youth programs. I’d like to share some thoughts about …
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Hello, I’m Dorian Almont and I am an independent consultant working primarily to develop measurement capacity with nonprofit community organizations. I’d like to share five blogs that I read, after I’m done reading aea365 of course, to keep up to date on issues in the nonprofit sector. Each regularly includes discussions and contributions focusing on …
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I am Andrew F. Hayes, an associate professor at Ohio State University, where I serve on the faculty in the School of Communication and the Department of Psychology. Though formally trained as an experimental social psychologist, I am a quantitative psychologist by vocation and at heart and have devoted the last several years thinking and …
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This post is brought to you by Alyssa Na’im of the National Science Foundation’s ITEST Learning Resource Center at the Education Development Center, and several members of the ITEST Community of Practice: Angelique Tucker Blackmon, Innovative Learning Concepts, LLC; Araceli M. Ortiz, Sustainable Future, Inc.; Carol Nixon, Edvantia, Inc.; Pam Van Dyk, Evaluation Resources, LLC; and Karen …
My name is Brian Silvey, and I am an Assistant Professor of Music Education and the Director of the Symphonic Band at the University of Missouri. I constantly struggle with how to best assess my students. One thing I do know is that using a point system does not seem to work for me. What …
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Our names are Wendy Viola, Lindsey Patterson, Mary Gray, and Ashley Boal and we are doctoral students in the Applied Social and Community Psychology program at Portland State University. This winter, we took a course in Program Evaluation from Dr. Katherine McDonald. We’d like to share three aspects of the seminar that we felt made …
