Cheers aea365 readers! My name is Alex da Silva from Brazil. While I may be able to undertake analyses in SAS, I find myself turning more frequently to Microsoft Excel because so many people can then use it. If I set up something in Excel I can be more confident that my collaborators are going …
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My name is Deshawn Smith and I am a student and novice evaluator. I’ve been keeping a crib sheet for the past year with acronyms that I came across that were used by evaluators. Lessons Learned: There is a lot of insider language related to evaluation and used by AEA. Here is a starter list …
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I’m Susan Kistler, the American Evaluation Association’s Executive Director. Today, I thought I’d write about a few resources available if you are developing evaluation contracts. Rad Resource: James Bell offered a session at Evaluation 2010 on Contracting for Evaluation Products and Services. He offered advice in five areas: creating a feasible, agreed-upon concept plan; developing …
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My name is Steve Fleming, and I work for the National Center for Educational Achievement, a department of ACT, Inc. whose mission is to help people achieve education and workplace success. I also earned an M.S. in Statistics from the University of Texas at Austin. I have been thinking a lot lately about how to explain …
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I’m Susan Eliot, owner and principal of Eliot & Associates, a qualitative research and evaluation firm located in Portland Oregon. I also write a qualitative blog. I’ve been an evaluator for over 20 years now. The longer I do this work, the more I appreciate the correlation between quality evaluations and two core elements: (1) …
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Hello everyone! Our names are Eun Kyeng Baek and SeriaShia Chatters. We are an evaluation team and doctoral students from the University of South Florida. We have served as internal and external evaluators in program evaluations in university settings. Additionally, we have experience in the development and administration of evaluation tools. Serving as an internal …
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Our names are Lindsey Dunn and Lauren Fluegge and we are PhD. students at The University of North Carolina at Greensboro. Recently, we have been involved with a project in which the data come from many different sources and often include hundreds of thousands of cases. We used primarily three programs to organize and merge …
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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, …
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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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 …
