AEA365 – Page 497 – A Tip-a-Day by and for Evaluators

DVR Week: Stuart Henderson on Using SmartDraw for Concept and Data Visualization

1 Comment / Data Visualization and Reporting / February 9, 2011 February 3, 2011

I am Stuart Henderson, Associate Director of Evaluation for the Clinical and Translational Science Center at the University of California, Davis. I have found that incorporating visual representations of concepts and data has helped me become a better evaluator and communicator. A software program that allows me to efficiently create visuals is SmartDraw. Although you …

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DVR Week: Juan Paulo Ramirez on Using Google Analytics

Leave a Comment / Data Visualization and Reporting / February 8, 2011 February 8, 2011

Hello, my name is Juan Paulo Ramírez, independent consultant, sole owner of “GIS and Human Dimensions, L.L.C.” As many of you may know Google Analytics (GA) allows you to track down the number of visitors that a website receives during a certain period of time. But GA does a lot more than that. If you …

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DVR Week: Chris Lysy on Data Sources that Embrace Data Visualization

1 Comment / Data Visualization and Reporting / February 7, 2011 February 3, 2011

My name is Chris Lysy and I am a Research Analyst at Westat. I am the creator of EvalCentral and I also blog at Fresh Spectrum. Additionally, you can find me on Twitter: @clysy. One promising new online trend is the addition of data visualization tools on major data source websites. So often data is …

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DVR Week: Stephanie Evergreen on the Data Visualization and Reporting TIG

3 Comments / Data Visualization and Reporting / February 6, 2011 February 5, 2011

My name is Stephanie Evergreen and I am so proud to be the founding Chair of the newest Topical Interest Group in AEA. What new TIG, you ask? It’s the Data Visualization and Reporting TIG. And we are so geeked to be here that we’ve taken over a whole week of aea365 to share with …

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Susan Kistler on Welcoming the Data Visualization & Reporting TIG and DVR Resources

Leave a Comment / Data Visualization and Reporting / February 5, 2011 September 1, 2011

My name is Susan Kistler, the American Evaluation Association’s Executive Director. This week I am excited to welcome AEA’s newest Topical Interest Group (TIG) focusing on Data Visualization and Reporting (DVR). All this week, we’ll be reading aea365 posts from our DVR colleagues and have DVR items highlighted on the Headlines and Resources list (you …

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Dawn Henderson and Ebun Odeneye on Tips and Strategies for Internal Program Evaluators

1 Comment / Graduate Student and New Evaluators, Internal Evaluation / February 4, 2011 January 16, 2011

Our names are Dawn Henderson and Ebun Odeneye. We are members of the 2010-2011 cohort of the AEA Graduate Diversity Education Internship (GEDI) Program. New internal evaluators often struggle with balancing general program duties with evaluation-specific responsibilities, so we will be sharing some effective tips to help evaluators facing this same challenge. Hot Tip: As …

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Oscar Chavez on Lessons Learned in Evaluating High School Mathematics Curriculums

Leave a Comment / Prek-12 Educational Evaluation / February 3, 2011 January 12, 2011

I am Oscar Chavez, assistant professor at the University of Missouri, co-PI of the COSMIC project. We are examining secondary students’ mathematics learning from textbooks embodying two distinct approaches to content organization: an integrated approach (e.g., Core-Plus Mathematics) and a subject-specific course approach (students follow an Algebra I, Geometry, Algebra II sequence). The study was …

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Jeremy Jewell on Using Wait List Control Groups in Evaluation

2 Comments / Quantitative Methods: Theory and Design / January 30, 2011 January 12, 2011

Hi, my name is Dr. Jeremy Jewell, and I am an Associate Professor in the Clinical Child and School Psychology Program at Southern Illinois University Edwardsville. For several years, I have helped our local probation department evaluate various risk assessment measures as well as programs for probationees. When evaluating the effectiveness of a program, one …

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Susan Kistler on Convening in Anaheim

3 Comments / Uncategorized / January 29, 2011 January 29, 2011

I’m Susan Kistler, the Executive Director for the American Evaluation Association. Today, I’m writing from Anaheim, California, site of AEA’s 2011 annual conference and location of our winter Board meeting. We’ll be convening the week of October 31 through November 6. I’m doing a little recon, and here’s what we’ve found so far: Hot Tip …

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Cindy Banyai on Creative Tech Tools for Participatory Evaluation

5 Comments / Collaborative, Participatory and Empowerment Evaluation, Integrating Technology into Evaluation / January 28, 2011 January 12, 2011

I am Dr. Cindy Banyai and I am the Executive Director of the Refocus Institute, a consultancy specializing in planning and training in participatory evaluation using visual methods. I have recently returned to the U.S. from working and researching in Asia, where I was a member and an editor for the English language journal of …

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