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Zita Unger on Assessing Board Performance: The Elephant in the Boardroom

Leave a Comment / Business, Leadership, and Performance / July 26, 2010

My name is Zita Unger and I am Director of a private consulting company in Australia offering corporate diagnostic tools, including board self-assessment, culture surveys and 360-degree feedback. I also serve on two non-profit boards. Does your board assess its performance? Whatever your organization, one of the most reliable ways a board can improve its …

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Kylie Hutchinson on Evaluation Theories

7 Comments / Theories of Evaluation / July 23, 2010

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 a regular workshop presenter at AEA conferences and the AEA Summer Institute. I also Twitter on an occasional …

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Gwen Fariss Newman on Using Newsletters to Connect with Others

Leave a Comment / Independent Consulting / September 1, 2011

Greetings All! I’m Gwen Fariss Newman and I’m filling in this Saturday for AEA’s Executive Director while she is on vacation. You may know me as AEA’s Communications Director, a new post as of two years ago. In that time, we’ve revamped AEA’s monthly newsletter and recently introduced a feature that showcases how AEA members …

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Elizabeth Hutchinson on Working with Local Evaluators in International Settings

1 Comment / Government Evaluation, Independent Consulting, International and Cross-cultural Evaluation / July 19, 2010

My name is Elizabeth Hutchinson and I am a Monitoring and Evaluation Specialist with Land O’Lakes International Development. My work focuses on evaluating United States Government-funded agriculture and food system development programs. Most people in the U.S. know of Land O’Lakes for its branded butter, but the division I work for has 30 years experience …

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Deshonna Collier-Goubil on Evaluator-Practitioner Collaboration

1 Comment / Collaborative, Participatory and Empowerment Evaluation, Graduate Student and New Evaluators / July 19, 2010

My name is Deshonna Collier-Goubil and I am a young scholar (newly minted PhD) who has had the wonderful opportunity to collaborate with seasoned evaluators and practitioners throughout my graduate education. Most recently I collaborated with a group of practitioners and evaluators to contribute a chapter in a newly released volume specifically written for young …

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Christopher Moore on Structural Equation Modeling for Theory-Driven Evaluation

4 Comments / Program Theory and Theory Driven Evaluation, Quantitative Methods: Theory and Design / August 17, 2010

Hi, my name is Christopher Moore.  I am a doctoral student in Quantitative Methods in Education at the University of Minnesota and a Quantitative Analyst at the Minnesota Department of Education.  My interests include preventing educational and health disparities, latent variable models, spatial statistical methods, and causal theory and inference. Hot Tip: So you’re conducting …

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Jim Burdine on How to Present Community Assessment Data Back to a Community

Leave a Comment / Behavioral Health, Collaborative, Participatory and Empowerment Evaluation, Health Evaluation / September 13, 2010

I’m Jim Burdine and a few weeks ago I posted a “tip-a-day” (see post here) on presenting community health assessment data back to the community. This is part two of that discussion. Last time I focused on “what to present” this posting focuses on “how to present . . . with results.” There are two …

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Susan Sloan on CDC’s Framework for Program Evaluation in Public Health

Leave a Comment / Health Evaluation, Organizational Learning and Evaluation Capacity Building / July 13, 2010

Hi, my name is Susan Sloan. I’m a program evaluator with about 20 years of experience—first as an evaluation team leader for Duerr Evaluation Resources in California and now as in internal program evaluator for Whatcom County Health Department (WCHD) in the Pacific Northwest. As a small local health department, we are always looking for …

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Randahl Kirkendall on Evaluating Program Websites

3 Comments / Integrating Technology into Evaluation, Mixed Methods Evaluation / July 13, 2010

My name is Randahl Kirkendall. I am a public health manager turned evaluator. Platometrics is the name of my consulting business, which for the past three years has been focused on program research, planning, and evaluation. I am also a part-time evaluator for the Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College, which provides faculty professional …

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LaMarcus Bolton on Communications Technologies for Evaluators

Leave a Comment / Independent Consulting, Integrating Technology into Evaluation / July 23, 2010

My name is LaMarcus Bolton, and I am the American Evaluation Association’s Technology Director, as well as a doctoral student in Industrial-Organizational Psychology. AEA’s Executive Director, Susan Kistler, is on vacation and I’m filling in with this Saturday’s staff post. Today, I wanted to discuss some of the great strides technology has made in terms …

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