AEA365 – Page 491 – A Tip-a-Day by and for Evaluators

SIOP Week: Elizabeth Rupprecht on Using mTurk to Collect Evaluation Data

Hello! I’m Elizabeth Rupprecht, an Industrial Organizational Psychology graduate student at Saint Louis University. I would like to tell you more about a great resource for collecting national or international evaluation data—Amazon’s Mechanical Turk (mTurk). mTurk is normally used to provide organizations with assistance completing tasks. Typically, an organization will set up a “task,” such as …

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SIOP Week: Stephen Axelrad on I-O Psychology and Evaluation

My name is Stephen Axelrad. I am a Human Capital consultant at Booz Allen Hamilton. For almost a decade, in both my doctoral training and professional life, I have had one foot in the evaluation world and one foot in the industrial-organizational psychology (I-O) world. Both disciplines use behavioral and social science research to solve …

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SIOP Week: Dale S. Rose on Organization Development: A Program Worth Evaluating (Logically)

Leave a Comment / Business, Leadership, and Performance, Organizational Learning and Evaluation Capacity Building / March 2, 2011 February 23, 2011

Hello. My name is Dale S. Rose. I am the President of 3D Group, a firm that has done program evaluation, 360 degree feedback and employee surveys since 1994. One of the thorns in the side of Organization Development has always been the nagging lack of a cohesive theory about how to successfully create change. …

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SIOP Week: E. Jane Davidson on SIOP and AEA’s best-kept secrets!

Leave a Comment / Business, Leadership, and Performance, Evaluation Use / February 28, 2011 February 19, 2011

My name is Jane Davidson and I run an evaluation consulting business called Real Evaluation Ltd. I also run a fun blog with Patricia Rogers at GenuineEvaluation.com. My doctoral training was in organizational psychology (with some industrial psyc at Master’s level), which is the career I was pursuing when I stumbled across evaluation. I was …

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SIOP Week: Eduardo Salas on I-O Psychology and Evaluation: Where Do They Meet?

Leave a Comment / Business, Leadership, and Performance / February 27, 2011 February 19, 2011

Hello, I’m Eduardo Salas, professor at the University of Central Florida and President of the Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology (SIOP). I am pleased to introduce you to SIOP and the field of industrial and organizational (I-O) psychology as well as explain how evaluation and I-O intersect. SIOP is the premier membership organization for …

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Susan Kistler on Seeking Your Input Regarding the Pros and Cons of Evaluator Certification and Credentialing

14 Comments / Uncategorized / February 26, 2011 February 26, 2011

I’m Susan Kistler, the American Evaluation Association’s Executive Director, and I contribute each Saturday’s aea365 post. The AEA Board of Directors has adopted a Question of the Quarter to generate discussion with and among members around issue critical to the field. This quarter’s question is: What are the pros and cons of AEA instituting a …

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Scribing: Robert McCowen on Fidelity of Implementation

Leave a Comment / Evaluation Use / February 25, 2011 February 14, 2011

My name is Robert McCowen and I am a doctoral fellow in Western Michigan University’s Interdisciplinary Ph.D. in Evaluation. I served as a session scribe at Evaluation 2010, and attended session number 606, Fidelity of Program Implementation in Educational Evaluations. I attended the session because my evaluation interests focus on education and assessment, and a …

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Susan Eliot on Attributes of a Successful Qualitative Coder

3 Comments / Qualitative Methods / February 24, 2011 September 1, 2011

Hi. I’m Susan Eliot, an independent consultant who specializes in qualitative methods. I live in Portland, Oregon but work with nonprofit and government agencies nationwide. In addition, I write a qualitative blog and teach workshops on qualitative topics. Anselm Strauss once said: “Any researcher who wishes to become proficient at doing qualitative analysis must learn …

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MaryAnn Sorensen Allacci on Spatial Analysis

2 Comments / Data Visualization and Reporting, Integrating Technology into Evaluation / February 23, 2011 February 14, 2011

Hello – I’m MaryAnn Sorensen Allacci, Director of Projects for Environmental Health, Knowledge, & Action, Inc. We provide a wide range of evaluation and advocacy services that focus on improving people’s well-being by improving their environments. As a result, we will often work on community environmental health issues that require our consideration of many levels …

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Kate McKegg on Developing Evaluator Competencies

1 Comment / Independent Consulting, Indigenous Peoples in Evaluation, International and Cross-cultural Evaluation / February 22, 2011 February 10, 2011

Kia ora and New Year Greetings to my evaluation colleagues. My name is Kate McKegg. I am an independent evaluation consultant based in New Zealand. My company, The Knowledge Institute Ltd is a member of a professional network – the Kinnect Group. I am a founding member and former Convenor for the Aotearoa New Zealand …

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