I’m Tamara Bertrand Jones and I evaluate programs and services in Student Affairs at Florida State University. I’ve always been intrigued by the ways that different people develop the skills they need in order to be successful in their chosen profession. Fundamental to the success of budding evaluators is the important interaction with successful evaluation …
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Hi. My name is Kristi Pettibone and I am a Research Scientist with The MayaTech Corporation and Manager of our Center for Community Prevention and Treatment Research. I have been helping Tom Chapel as the AEA Summer Institute Program Co-Chair this year. A few days ago, Tom posted about being clear about the primary demand …
Kristi Pettibone on Evaluating Environmental Change Strategies Read More »
I’m Cameron Norman and I’m the Director of Evaluation at the Peter A. Silverman Global eHealth Program at the University of Toronto. Since the first time I saw the World Wide Web back in the early 1990’s, I was interested in how social tools and technologies like it could be used to help people solve …
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My name is Beverly Parsons and I’m the executive director of InSites, a non-profit research, evaluation, and planning organization. We use a systems orientation and conduct evaluations related to education, social services, community change, and health. I’m an AEA board member. I have a tip about how to build evaluation capacity through a type of …
Beverly Parsons on Communities of Learning, Inquiry, and Practice (CLIPs) Read More »
Greetings fellow AEA365 blog readers. My name is Duncan Meyers and I am a graduate student at the University of South Carolina in the Clinical/Community Psychology program. I have a strong interest in evaluation and have been an evaluator for community-based mental health services, an after-school obesity prevention program, and a project aimed at increasing …
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I’m Tom Chapel, the Chief Evaluation Officer (acting) at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. I’ve also served as co-chair of the AEA/CDC Summer Evaluation Institute since its inception. The Institute turns 10 years old this June and, with that in mind, I wanted to share a lesson learned and a couple of great …
Tom Chapel on Demand for Evaluation and Great Evaluation Resources Read More »
My name is Susan Kistler. I am the Executive Director for the American Evaluation Association, and I contribute each Saturday’s post to aea365. The Guiding Principles for Evaluators serve as the cornerstone of good evaluation practice. Developed in 1994 as guidelines for sound, ethical practice, they have been broadly vetted with the AEA membership and …
Susan Kistler on the Guiding Principles for Evaluators Read More »
Hi! My name is Michael Szanyi. I am a doctoral student at Claremont Graduate University. I’ve been studying what areas practitioners think there needs to be more research on evaluation on, and I’d like to share a rad resource with you. Rad Resource: Whenever I need inspiration to come up with a research on evaluation …
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I’m Jim Hammerman, and I Co-Direct the Evaluation Group at TERC, a non-profit, primarily grant-funded math, science and technology, education research, development, and evaluation company in Cambridge, MA. I’m also a current member and former Chair of TERC’s Institutional Review Board (IRB). Several of us recently noted on AEA’s LinkedIn group that there are at …
IRB Part III: Jim Hammerman on Developing In-house Capacity Read More »
My name is Stephen Meyer and I am a Senior Research Associate with RMC Research Corporation in Denver, Colorado. RMC Research conducts research and evaluation related to a wide range of education topics. Colleagues and I recently noted on AEA’s LinkedIn group that there are at least three ways to address the issue of Institutional …
IRB Part II: Stephen Meyer on Contracting with Commercial Providers Read More »
