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Government Eval TIG Week: Layering Data Placemat Sessions by Elise Garvey

Leave a Comment / Government Evaluation / December 3, 2022

Hello, I’m Elise Garvey, a senior management auditor from the King County Auditor’s Office in Seattle, Washington. I have become a huge fan of using data placemat sessions for my projects ever since learning about them at Eval 2015 and learning more from Kylie Hutchinson’s tips and tricks. Data placemats are large sheets of paper with themed snippets of raw or basic data analysis, and a data placemat session is when you review and discuss those placemats with stakeholders. This has been a really valuable tool for ensuring I’m understanding the data I’m using and getting the perspective of people closest to the data.

Enhancing Learning by Requiring Written Project Responses by Stephanie Chasteen

1 Comment / Uncategorized / April 15, 2022

Hello, AEA365 community! Liz DiLuzio here, Lead Curator of the blog. This week is Individuals Week, which means we take a break from our themed weeks and spotlight the Hot Tips, Cool Tricks, Rad Resources and Lessons Learned from any evaluator interested in sharing. Would you like to contribute to future individuals weeks? Email me …

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Internal Eval TIG Week: Gaining Acceptance as an Internal Evaluator by Maddison Staszkiewicz

Leave a Comment / Internal Evaluation / November 14, 2021

Hello! My name is Maddison Staszkiewicz, and I am the Chair of the Graduate Students and New Evaluators TIG. I have spent my evaluation career to date working as an internal evaluator and studying the dynamics through former graduate work. For many evaluators, such as Catherine Nameth who wrote this AEA365 post, evaluation is not …

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IC TIG Week: 4 Lessons Learned from Engineering by Alicia B. Kiremire

1 Comment / Independent Consulting / July 10, 2021

Good morning from a hot summer day in Louisiana!  My name is Alicia B. Kiremire, owner of FlowStream Management, LLC. As an engineer turned independent evaluation consultant, I’d love to share four engineering lessons that have been super helpful in my evaluation work. Lessons Learned: #1: Nurture a “systems” way of thinking. In engineering, we …

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Celebrating 4000 articles on AEA365! By Sheila B. Robinson

2 Comments / Uncategorized / April 24, 2021

Hello everyone! I’m Sheila B. Robinson, Lead Curator and sometimes Saturday contributor. A few weeks back I was excited that we were approaching 4000 articles on AEA365. Well, we reached that milestone in the first week of March 2021. I’ve always wanted to get a sense of how many people have contributed to this blog, …

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EVALpalooza by Matt Feldmann and Asma Ali

7 Comments / Uncategorized / September 1, 2020

Hello, we’re Matt Feldmann, president of Evaluation Association of St. Louis (EASL), and Asma Ali, president of Chicagoland Evaluation Association (CEA). With in-person conferences out of the question, we got together in Spring 2020 to dream up a different way to engage evaluators. We joined evaluators Kylie Hutchinson and Sheila B. Robinson and…VOILA!… started EVALpalooza.  …

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4 Ways Members are Using the AEA Guiding Principles by Sarah Heath

Leave a Comment / Uncategorized / July 18, 2020

Hello! I’m Sarah Heath (Instructor at the University of Winnipeg) and I’m a member of the AEA Guiding Principles Working Group. We have been tasked with finding creative ways to build awareness of the 2018-updated AEA Evaluators’ Ethical Guiding Principles among AEA members. As a working group member, I’ve become fascinated by the different ways …

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Quick Reference Guides Evaluators Can’t Live Without by Kelly Robertson

3 Comments / Uncategorized / April 13, 2020

My name is Kelly Robertson, and I work at The Evaluation Center at Western Michigan University and EvaluATE, the National Science Foundation–funded evaluation hub for Advanced Technological Education. I’m a huge fan of quick reference guides. Quick reference guides are brief summaries of important content that can be used to improve practice in real time. …

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Reading Speed And Evaluation by Sara Vaca

6 Comments / Research on Evaluation, Uncategorized / October 26, 2019

Hi AEA365 readers! I am Sara Vaca, independent consultant and frequent Saturday contributor to this blog, and I am coming today with a short-experiment-post, aiming to collect data (about evaluators’ reading speed) and come back to you with the results. It all started some days ago when I was finally reading Kylie Hutchinson’s book A …

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Gov’t Eval TIG Week: Layering data placemat sessions by Elise Garvey

Leave a Comment / Government Evaluation / January 19, 2019

Hello, I’m Elise Garvey, a senior management auditor from the King County Auditor’s Office in Seattle, Washington. I have become a huge fan of using data placemat sessions for my projects ever since learning about them at Eval 2015 and learning more from Kylie Hutchinson’s tips and tricks. Data placemats are large sheets of paper …

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