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Sue Hoechstetter on Resources for Evaluating Community Organizing

Hello, my name is Sue Hoechstetter and I work at Alliance for Justice developing advocacy and community organizing capacity assessment and evaluation resources. Alliance for Justice’s mission includes encouraging individuals and communities to bring their voices to the policy table through foundation and other nonprofit advocacy. Rad Resource: In response to grantmakers’ requests for materials …

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Susan Kistler on Submitting a Proposal to Present at Evaluation 2011

Leave a Comment / Uncategorized / January 22, 2011 January 21, 2011

My name is Susan Kistler, the Executive Director for the American Evaluation Association. I contribute each Saturday’s post to aea365. Hot Tip – Submit a Proposal for Evaluation 2011: The 2011 Call for Proposals went online this week for AEA’s annual conference to be held the first week of November in Anaheim, California. We anticipate …

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WMU Scribing: Maran Subramain on Communications Challenges in Evaluation

1 Comment / Prek-12 Educational Evaluation / January 21, 2011 January 20, 2011

My name is Maran Subramain and I am a graduate student at Western Michigan University. I served as a session scribe at Evaluation 2010 and attended session number 577, Communication: At What level Does It Help or Hinder Evaluation Capacity? I chose this session because, as a fairly new graduate student in the evaluation program, …

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WMU Scribing: Kristin Hobson on the Construct Validity of Race

Leave a Comment / Graduate Student and New Evaluators, Multiethnic Issues in Evaluation / January 20, 2011 January 21, 2011

The version below is updated and revised at the request of the presenter. My name is Kristin Hobson. I am in the Interdisciplinary Ph.D. in Evaluation program at Western Michigan University. Recently, I participated in AEA’s annual conference in San Antonio where I learned from presentations given by colleagues. I served as a session scribe …

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WMU Scribing: Michael Kiella on Social Science Standards and Ethics

Leave a Comment / Research on Evaluation / January 19, 2011 January 19, 2011

My name is Michael Kiella. I am a student member of the American Evaluation Association, and a doctoral student at Western Michigan University in Kalamazoo Michigan. I served as a session scribe at Evaluation 2010 for Session 393: Research on Evaluation Standards and Methods. For this post, I will focus on the presentation by Dr. …

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WMU Scribing: Robert McCowen on Evaluation and Public Policy

Leave a Comment / Evaluation Policy, Government Evaluation / January 18, 2011 January 16, 2011

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 651, Introduction to Evaluation and Public Policy. My evaluation interests focus on education, and a great deal of modern educational policy flows from …

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WMU Scribing: Alexander Manga on Perspectives of Quality

Leave a Comment / Collaborative, Participatory and Empowerment Evaluation / January 17, 2011 January 16, 2011

My name is Alexander Manga, and I am a Ph.D student at Western Michigan University. I served as a scribe at Evaluation 2010 and attended session 356, Differing Perspectives of Quality Throughout an Evaluation. I chose this session because I am very interested in understanding more about the construction and processing of quality evaluations. Lessons …

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WMU Scribing: Stacy French on the Intersection of Strategy and Evaluation

Leave a Comment / Graduate Student and New Evaluators, Nonprofits and Foundations Evaluation / January 16, 2011 January 16, 2011

My name is Stacy French and I am a doctoral student at Western Michigan University. I served as a session scribe at Evaluation 2010 and attended session 124, The Intersection of Strategy and Evaluation: What Are We Learning? I chose this session because of my interest in business strategy and how it interacted with evaluation. …

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Susan Kistler on the Top 10 Evaluation H&Rs from 2010

2 Comments / Uncategorized / January 15, 2011 January 14, 2011

I’m Susan Kistler, AEA’s Executive Director and contributor of each Saturday’s aea365 post. I’ve written before about AEA’s Headlines and Resources list which compiles items from across the field into a tidy bundle which most subscribers see each Sunday. Today, I’m listing the top H&R items from 2010 so you are sure not to miss …

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Alison Mendoza and Yusuf Ransome on GEDI Intern Reflections of the AEA Annual Conference

Leave a Comment / Graduate Student and New Evaluators / January 14, 2011 December 20, 2010

We are Alison Mendoza and Yusuf Ransome, interns in AEA’s Graduate Education Diversity Internship (GEDI) program. GEDI interns are graduate students in various disciplines in the social sciences who, through a nine-month internship and participation in various workshops throughout the year, gain hands-on experience in evaluation. GEDI interns also receive support from experienced mentors both …

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