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ROE Bonus: Paul Brandon and Landry Fukunaga on Methods Used in Empirical Studies of Stakeholder Involvement in Program Evaluation

1 Comment / Collaborative, Participatory and Empowerment Evaluation, Research on Evaluation / March 19, 2011

We are Paul Brandon and Landry Fukunaga from the University of Hawai‘i at M?noa. Stakeholder involvement in program evaluation is one of the most enduring topics in the program evaluation literature, but empirical research on the topic has been summarized only within limited domains. We conducted a literature review of empirical research, examining 7,580 publications …

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MNEA Week: Beth Robelia on Using Online Focus Groups

1 Comment / Integrating Technology into Evaluation / February 28, 2011

My name is Beth Robelia. I am the proprietor of a micro-business that focuses on STEM education research, curriculum development and program evaluation. In evaluating the effectiveness of social media, the disbursed nature of users may make face-to-face focus groups impractical. Online focus groups can bridge the gap in geography by placing participants in an …

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MNEA Week: Hanife Cakici on Evaluation of the Worlds

Leave a Comment / Graduate Student and New Evaluators, International and Cross-cultural Evaluation / February 28, 2011

My name is Hanife Cakici and I am a second year graduate student in the Master of Public Policy program at the Humphrey School of Public Affairs, University of Minnesota, focusing on advanced policy analysis and program evaluation. Coming to U.S as a Turkish Fulbright student has generated a deep curiosity in me to investigate …

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MNEA Week: Leah Goldstein Moses on Evaluative Thinking

Leave a Comment / Organizational Learning and Evaluation Capacity Building / February 28, 2011

My name is Leah Goldstein Moses. I am the founder and President of the Improve Group, a national evaluation and planning consulting firm based in the Twin Cities. I am writing to share some recent experiences in evaluation capacity building initiatives, and taken together, they suggest that evaluative thinking is emerging as one of the …

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MNEA Week: Susan Keskinen on Qualitative Data Analysis

3 Comments / Qualitative Methods / March 1, 2011

My name is Susan Keskinen. I work for Ramsey County (Minnesota) Community Human Services as a Senior Program Evaluator. My evaluation projects are related to employment and supportive services provided to Minnesota Family Investment Program (MFIP) participants, Minnesota’s version of the Temporary Assistance to Needy Families (TANF) program. I am the Communications Chair for the …

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MNEA Week: Melissa Chapman Haynes on Program Evaluation Standards

Leave a Comment / Organizational Learning and Evaluation Capacity Building, Program Theory and Theory Driven Evaluation / February 28, 2011

Hello! I am Dr. Melissa Chapman Haynes, and I am a Senior Evaluator with Professional Data Analysts, Inc. in Minneapolis, Minnesota. In this post, I propose that the Program Evaluation Standards (PgES) is a fundamental tool that can help us reflect on the values we bring to our evaluation practice. The five standards, all of …

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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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