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LAWG Week: Join us in Washington, DC this November for #Eval17 by Nick Hart

Leave a Comment / Uncategorized / July 15, 2017

As the American Evaluation Association’s 2017 conference returns to Washington, DC, this fall, on behalf of the Washington Evaluators affiliate allow me to welcome you to DC for #Eval17!  I am Nick Hart, current president of Washington Evaluators, AEA’s DC-based affiliate. Washington Evaluators launched in 1984 and has grown to more than 300 local evaluators …

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LAWG Week: Gabriela Garcia and Rebecca Teasdale on Chicago for Students and Evaluators on a Budget

1 Comment / Uncategorized / September 20, 2015

Hello! We are Gabriela Garcia and Rebecca Teasdale, two Chicagoans who are also doctoral students in Educational Psychology specializing in program evaluation at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. We want to take this opportunity to not only welcome all graduate students who will be attending the AEA conference this fall, but to also share …

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WE Week: Matthew Von Hendy on High Quality Low Cost Research Resources For Evaluators

2 Comments / Uncategorized / May 26, 2014

Hello! My name is Matthew Von Hendy, I am the owner of Green Heron Information Services, which provides research and information services to evaluation professionals.  I love helping connect people with the information that they need to solve problems or make decisions. Many evaluators are working in budget constrained environments which can make accessing the …

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WE Week: Brian Yoder on Evaluators Visit Capitol Hill

1 Comment / Uncategorized / May 26, 2014

I’m Brian Yoder. I live in Washington, D.C., and I serve as president of the local AEA affiliate, the Washington Evaluators.  I’m writing about an initiative I spearheaded called Evaluators Visit Capitol Hill which took place during the AEA conference in Washington, D.C. last year. (Share Clip) EVCH is a collaboration between AEA’s Evaluation Policy …

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LAWG Week: Brian Yoder on Evaluators Visit Capitol Hill

2 Comments / Advocacy and Policy Change, Evaluation Policy, Government Evaluation / September 26, 2013

I am Brian Yoder, Director of Assessment, Evaluation and Institutional Research at the American Society for Engineering Education, a professional association located in Washington, D.C.  I also serve as President Elect for the Washington Evaluators, a local affiliate of AEA. I’ve lived and worked in D.C. for the past seven years working as a contractor, …

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LAWG Week: Ann Emery on Conference Tips for Novice Evaluators

1 Comment / Graduate Student and New Evaluators / January 16, 2016

Greetings, I’m Ann Emery from Innovation Network in Washington, DC. I also blog at www.emeryevaluation.com and tweet from @annkemery. DC is a great hub for evaluation! We’re home to the Washington Evaluators, an AEA affiliate, and we’re also close to the Baltimore Area Evaluators and the Eastern Evaluation Research Society. I’m thrilled that the #Eval13 …

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LAWG Week: Matthew Von Hendy on How Evaluators Find and Use Research

Leave a Comment / Integrating Technology into Evaluation / August 2, 2013

Hello! My name is Matthew Von Hendy, I am a professional research librarian and recently started my own business, Green Heron Information Services, a small research consulting company that provides information services to evaluators and other clients. For the past three months, I have been conducting informational interviews with professional evaluators to understand how they …

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LAWG Week: Brad Keller on Evaluating with Non Evaluators

2 Comments / Organizational Learning and Evaluation Capacity Building, Prek-12 Educational Evaluation / July 31, 2013

Welcome to the Evaluation 2013 Conference Local Arrangements Working Group (LAWG) week on aea365. My name is Brad Keller, and I work at Westat, an employee-owned research organization in Rockville, MD. For several years, I’ve worked on a contract with the U.S. Department of Education (ED), to help them obtain and analyze performance data from …

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CREATE Week: Jim Van Haneghan on CREATE as a Resource for Educational Evaluators

Leave a Comment / Assessment in Higher Education, Prek-12 Educational Evaluation / May 26, 2013

My name is Jim Van Haneghan and I am writing about the Consortium for Research on Educational Assessment and Teaching Effectiveness (CREATE).  CREATE focuses on educational evaluation and is a useful complement to my participation in the American Evaluation Association (AEA).  CREATE was started back in the 1990s by Daniel Stufflebeam and others at the …

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Ann Emery on Aha Moments for Novice Evaluators

6 Comments / Graduate Student and New Evaluators / November 27, 2012

Greetings! I’m Ann Emery from Innovation Network in Washington, DC. I also tweet and blog about my adventures as a nonprofit and foundations evaluator. Lessons Learned: Are you a recent graduate or novice evaluator? If so, you’ve probably already made tremendous professional and personal growth. Congratulations! However, you’ve probably also learned that evaluation is challenging! As I followed the #evalAHA hashtag …

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