My name is Stephen Axelrad. I am a Human Capital consultant with Booz Allen Hamilton’s Human Capital and Learning team. I consult with the US Department of Defense agencies on issues relating to human resources program evaluation, employee engagement, organizational culture, and performance measurement/management. I have had an ongoing interest and involvement with knowledge management …
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My name is David Devlin-Foltz and I direct the Advocacy Planning and Evaluation Program at the Aspen Institute, a Washington, DC, based think tank and convening organization. I am not an evaluator, but occasionally I play one at AEA conferences and client meetings. Why the confession? Because I am a career policy wonk with 25 years of …
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My name is Julia Coffman and I am Director of the Center for Evaluation Innovation, a nonprofit effort that is building the field of evaluation in hard-to-measure areas such as advocacy, communications, and systems change. I am also a strategy and evaluation consultant to nonprofits and foundations, specializing in advocacy and policy change efforts. Advocacy …
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My name is Susan Kistler and I am the Executive Director for the American Evaluation Association. I contribute each Saturday’s posting to the AEA365 Blog. Recently, evaluators have been showing off their funny bones and I wanted to share with you the following, not only to make you laugh, but also because they make one …
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Greetings colleagues! I am Elizabeth Harris, Ph.D., Vice President of Evaluation, Management and Training Associates, Inc. (EMT). The focus of this blog is a free resource for measuring youth resiliency that we developed out of necessity. For over 25 years, we have focused our evaluation, technical assistance, and training work on the prevention of substance …
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Hi. I am David Fetterman, President and CEO of Fetterman & Associates (with 25 years of experience at Stanford University). I work in many areas of evaluation including as you may know – empowerment evaluation. One of my primary concerns is fostering collaboration in evaluation. My Hot Tip and Cool Trick both spring from the …
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My name is David McDonald and I am the Director of a small Australia-based consultancy Social Research & Evaluation Pty Ltd, and a part-time academic at the National Centre for Epidemiology and Population Health, The Australian National University, in Canberra, ACT, Australia. My consultancy work is largely policy analysis and policy & program evaluation in …
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I’m Sue Griffey and I direct the Evaluation Center in the Public Health Research group at Social & Scientific Systems. I really like technology and the tools it’s given us – and I am always trying out new things. (I love the EZAnalyze program that Paul Pope blogged about a few days ago.) So, when …
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Hello, my name is Patricia Rogers. I am Professor of Public Sector Evaluation at the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology (RMIT University) in Australia and write a blog with Jane Davidson at http://genuineevaluation.com/. I’m particularly interested in evidence-based policy and practice for complicated and complex interventions which require a range of methods and research designs. …
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My name is Takayoshi Kusago, professor in Social System Design, Faculty of Sociology, Kansai University, Japan. I teach fieldwork method and action research at the university. Action research does require collaboration among researchers and practitioners – similar to empowerment evaluation. Here I would like to share tips for those who are interested in action-oriented research. …
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