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. …
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 …
SIOP Week: E. Jane Davidson on SIOP and AEA’s best-kept secrets! Read More »
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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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 …
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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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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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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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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I am David Erickson, the Manager for the Center for Community Development Investments at the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco. In the community development finance and socially-motivated investing worlds, there is both universal agreement for the need for better social outcome measurements and no consensus on how to do it. And yet the pressure …
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My name is Kylie Hutchinson. I am an independent evaluation consultant and trainer with Community Solutions Planning & Evaluation. I am one of the facilitators of the Canadian Evaluation Society’s Essential Skills Series course in Canada and regularly present a workshop on Effective Reporting Techniques for Evaluators at AEA conferences and the AEA Summer Institute. …
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