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EPE TIG Week: Marjorie McRae on Tips for Evaluating Energy Efficiency Programs

Leave a Comment / Environmental Program Evaluation / April 19, 2011

Hello. I’m Marjorie McRae, a Principal with Research Into Action ,Inc., a firm that specializes in process evaluation and market research for energy efficiency and renewable energy programs. Repeated process evaluations and market research studies are great tools for supporting continuous improvement of efficiency and renewable programs. Yet some program administrators think, “It’s too early …

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EPE TIG Week: Michel Ehrlich on Monitoring Legislation

Leave a Comment / Advocacy and Policy Change, Environmental Program Evaluation / April 19, 2011

My name is Michel Ehrlich and I am the Publisher of EU Issue Tracker. We provide regulatory monitoring and tracking services, looking at European Union (EU) regulation and policy, and we cover several major policy areas including Environment, Energy, Transport, and others. There are, of course, a large number of people, in a wide variety …

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EPE TIG Week: Johanna Morariu on an Evaluation Approach for an Environmental Think Tank & Advocacy Organization

1 Comment / Advocacy and Policy Change, Environmental Program Evaluation / April 19, 2011

Hi! I’m Johanna Morariu, Senior Associate with Innovation Network. Innovation Network (http://www.innonet.org/) is an evaluation consulting firm that provides evaluation consulting services to nonprofits and funders, and works to build the sector’s evaluation capacity. I lead Innovation Network’s environmental evaluation work, with a strong concentration on environmental advocacy evaluation. A few months ago we began …

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EPE TIG Week: Nick Salafsky on Miradi Adaptive Management Software for Conservation Projects

Leave a Comment / Environmental Program Evaluation, Integrating Technology into Evaluation / April 10, 2011

My name is Nick Salafsky and I am Co-Director and Co-Founder of Foundations of Success, a nonprofit organization committed to working with practitioners to learn how to do conservation better through the process of adaptive management. My colleagues and I have spent the past two decades helping biodiversity conservation project teams design theories of change …

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EPE Week: Matt Keene on Fuzzy Logic Models – Embracing and Navigating Complexity

3 Comments / Environmental Program Evaluation, Systems in Evaluation / April 20, 2011

My name is Matt Keene; I work with the Environmental Protection Agency and coordinate the Environmental Evaluators Network. Chris Metzner (freelance graphic designer and data visualization artist) and Jeff Wasbes (independent evaluation consultant with ResearchWorks, Inc.) helped enormously with this post. In 2009 Oregon became the first state to enact a law requiring paint manufacturers …

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Susan Kistler on Training and Data Visualization

1 Comment / Data Visualization and Reporting / April 16, 2011

Susan Kistler here, the American Evaluation Association’s Executive Director. Excited to connect after a long, but very productive, week. I spent the last week in Philadelphia training with Stephen McDaniel, author of Rapid Graphs with Tableau and SAS for Dummies, striving to up my game around data visualization and reporting. Lesson Learned: The question you …

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Joi Moore on Facilitating Systematic Evaluation Activities

Leave a Comment / Assessment in Higher Education, Prek-12 Educational Evaluation, Teaching of Evaluation / February 26, 2011

Greetings. I’m Joi Moore, Associate Professor in the School of Information Science & Learning Technologies at the University of Missouri.   I also serve as a faculty member for the Information Experience Lab. Teaching an online application development course, such as Flash animation, can easily become overwhelming for students and the instructors.  Students must acquire the …

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Scribing: Vidhya Shanker on Discussions Regarding the AEA Cultural Competence Statement

4 Comments / Indigenous Peoples in Evaluation, International and Cross-cultural Evaluation, Multiethnic Issues in Evaluation, Prek-12 Educational Evaluation, Teaching of Evaluation / April 4, 2011

This is Vidhya Shanker, a doctoral student at the University of Minnesota. I served as an Evaluation 2010 scribe for Think Tank Session 242, Cultural Competency in Evaluation: Discussion of the American Evaluation Association’s Public Statement on the Importance of Cultural Competence in Evaluation. Discussion was organized into small groups, each of which focused on …

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Xin Wang, Neeley Current, and Gary Westergren on Using Think-aloud Interviewing to Evaluate Web Applications

Leave a Comment / Integrating Technology into Evaluation, Needs Assessment, Research, Technology and Development Evaluation / February 26, 2011

Hello! We are Xin Wang, Neeley Current, and Gary Westergren. We work at the Information Experience Laboratory (IE Lab) of the School of Information Science & Learning Technologies at the University of Missouri.  The IE lab is a usability laboratory that conducts research and evaluates technology. What is usability? According to Jakob Nielsen’s definition, usability …

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Arlene Hopkins on Ecological Restoration

Leave a Comment / Environmental Program Evaluation / February 26, 2011

I am Arlene Hopkins, an educator and architect, and I provide consulting services in evaluation. Extending my work beyond education, libraries, land use and facilities, I am interested in standards, metrics and tools applied to environmental sustainability programs and projects.   Recently I have been focusing on evaluation standards, metrics and practices within the emerging subfield …

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