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MNEA Week: Stella SiWan Zimmerman on Key Outcome Reporting Details

2 Comments / Data Visualization and Reporting / February 28, 2011

My name is Stella SiWan Zimmerman and I am the President of ACET, Inc., a research and evaluation consulting firm based in Minneapolis, MN. We specialize in the evaluation of education, public health, and community-based programs in order to improve organizational effectiveness and build evaluation capacity. Over the years, I have produced and reviewed many …

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

Leave a Comment / Business, Leadership, and Performance, Integrating Technology into Evaluation / February 25, 2011

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

Leave a Comment / Business, Leadership, and Performance, Collaborative, Participatory and Empowerment Evaluation / February 25, 2011

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 / 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 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 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

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 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 / 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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