AEA365 – Page 488 – A Tip-a-Day by and for Evaluators

Allison Chapman and Jia Ma on the Function of Evaluative Inquiry for the Development of Graduate Students

Hello, this is Allison Chapman and Jia Ma, PhD students in the Assessment and Evaluation Group (AEG) at Queen’s University, Kingston, Canada. We are particularly interested in the challenges, impacts, and evaluations of large-scale assessments. Evaluative inquiry contributes to the personal and professional growth of individuals within organizations through the process of exploring individuals’ values, …

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Susan Kistler on Evaluating the Zombie Apocalypse

4 Comments / Uncategorized / May 21, 2011 May 20, 2011

My name is Susan Kistler and I am the American Evaluation Association’s Executive Director. Our Institute partners at the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) were kind enough to release this week preparedness guidelines for the Zombie Apocalypse, including: Identify the types of emergencies that are possible in your area. Besides a zombie apocalypse, this may …

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Judy Woods on Presenting Evaluation Findings as Developmental Questions Oriented Toward Program Improvement

6 Comments / Graduate Student and New Evaluators, Health Evaluation, Independent Consulting / May 20, 2011 May 9, 2011

My name is Judy Woods and I am a Doctoral student at Queen’s University in Kingston, Ontario, Canada. As a member of the graduate Assessment and Evaluation group, my first project as a novice evaluator involved the evaluation of an innovative medical education program. Being a Registered Nurse with extensive clinical experience in a university …

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Laura Cody on Evaluation Planning Process with Youth

2 Comments / Behavioral Health, Collaborative, Participatory and Empowerment Evaluation, Youth Focused Evaluation / May 18, 2011 December 21, 2011

My name is Laura Cody, and I am a Community Health Specialist at the Regional Center for Healthy Communities in Cambridge, MA. We work with many substance abuse prevention coalitions helping them build on their strengths and reduce underage drinking in their communities. I will describe a process we used with a group of youth …

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Stacy Carruth on using Wordle to Understand Substance Abuse

4 Comments / Behavioral Health, Integrating Technology into Evaluation / May 17, 2011 May 9, 2011

My name is Stacy Carruth and I am a Community Health Specialist at a Regional Center for Healthy Communities in Massachusetts. Much of the work we do is supporting community coalitions working on substance abuse prevention. Two communities we work with are funded to reduce fatal and non-fatal opiate overdose, an issue of concern in …

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Jessica Foster on Maximizing Survey Response Rates

1 Comment / Evaluation Use, Qualitative Methods, Quantitative Methods: Theory and Design / May 16, 2011 May 9, 2011

Hello, I’m Jessica Foster, a Research and Evaluation Analyst at Franklin County Children Services. Our agency provides child protective services for the Central Ohio area. During the course of my career, I have administered many surveys to a variety of stakeholders and clients. I’ve learned from my work and from the experiences shared by my …

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Scribing: Vidhya Shanker on Lessons Learned from Evaluation Leaders

2 Comments / Uncategorized / May 15, 2011 May 15, 2011

This is Vidhya Shanker, a doctoral student at the University of Minnesota. At Evaluation 2010, I served as a scribe for Roundtable Presentation 111, Maximizing Our Collective Talent: Conversations with Senior Evaluators, which brought evaluation leaders together with novice and mid-career evaluators to engage in evaluation discourse around 8 different issue tables. I chose it …

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Susan Kistler on How to Win a Book by Identifying the Essence of Evaluation

28 Comments / Uncategorized / May 14, 2011 May 14, 2011

I am Susan Kistler, AEA’s Executive Director. After my junior year in high school, I attended a short summer program in between working 50 hours weeks at a health food restaurant. The restaurant t-shirts read “Something Natural…and Something Else” on a sea of earthy green. The summer program searched for something similarly pithy. After a …

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Alberta Mirambeau on Program Stakeholders and Evaluation Stakeholders

1 Comment / Collaborative, Participatory and Empowerment Evaluation, Evaluation Use / May 13, 2011 April 18, 2011

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

Leave a Comment / Evaluation Use, Nonprofits and Foundations Evaluation, Qualitative Methods / May 12, 2011 September 1, 2011

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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