My name is Michael Quinn Patton and I am an independent evaluation consultant. That means I make my living meeting my clients’ information needs. Over the last few years, I have found increasing demand for innovative evaluation approaches to evaluate innovations. In other words, social innovators and funders of innovative initiatives want and need an …
Michael Quinn Patton on Developmental Evaluation Read More »
My name is Lori Wingate. I am a Principal Research Associate at The Evaluation Center at Western Michigan University. Two closely related topics I return to frequently in my research, practice, and teaching are metaevaluation and the Program Evaluation Standards (Joint Committee, 1994). Here I share some lessons learned from my recent dissertation research on …
Lori Wingate on the Use of the Program Evaluation Standards for Metaevaluation Read More »
My name is Susan Kistler, AEA’s Executive Director, and I contribute each Saturday’s aea365 post. I love finding ways to make data understandable and useful. My very first aea365 post was on Data Visualization and I gave a presentation at the 2010 AEA/CDC Summer Evaluation Institute on the Democratization of Data Inquiry (the handout, with …
Susan Kistler on Data, Art, and Representation Read More »
Greetings, My name is Mehmet Dali Ozturk. I am the Assistant Vice President of Research, Evaluation and Development at Arizona State University Office of Education Partnerships (VPEP), an office that works with P-20, public and private sector partners to enhance the academic performance of students in high need communities. Along with my colleagues Brian Garbarini and Kerry …
CAP Week: Mehmet Dali Ozturk on Evaluation of Summer Outreach Programs Read More »
My name is Mika Yoder Yamashita. I am the qualitative evaluation lead for the Center for Educational Policy and Practice at Academy for Educational Development. Our Center has been conducting process and outcome evaluations of the federally funded program, Gaining Early Awareness and Readiness for Undergraduate Programs (GEAR UP). This program aims at increasing college …
CAP Week: Mika Yoder Yamashita on Using Literature Review in Cluster Evaluation Read More »
My name is Jack Mills; I’m a full-time independent evaluator with projects in K-12 and higher education. I took my first course in program evaluation in 1976. After a career in healthcare administration, I started work as a full-time evaluator in 2001. The field had expanded tremendously in those 25 years. As a time traveler, …
CAP Week: Jack Mills on Evaluation Theory Read More »
My name is Kirsten Rewey and I am a Senior Research and Evaluation Associate at ACET, Inc. Two years ago ACET was selected to provide evaluation services for a federally-funded Gaining Early Awareness and Readiness for Undergraduate Programs (GEAR UP) implemented by the Minnesota Office of Higher Education (OHE). As part of the services, OHE …
CAP Week: Kirsten Rewey on Developing a Research Design With College Access Programs Read More »
My name is Sandra Eames, and I am a faculty member at Austin Community College and an independent evaluation consultant. For the last several years, I have been the lead evaluator on two projects from completely different disciplines. One of the programs is an urban career and technical education program and the other is an …
CAP Week: Sandra Eames on Utilization Focused Evaluation Read More »
My name is Kathryn Hill and I work with the state of Minnesota’s GEAR UP college access initiative as the Evaluation and Research Manager. GEAR UP is the acronym for the Gaining Early Awareness and Readiness for Undergraduate Programs federal grant program, designed to increase the number of low-income students who are prepared to enter …
CAP Week: Kathryn Hill on Cost Analysis Read More »
My name is Susan Kistler and I am AEA’s Executive Director. Although I normally contribute each Saturday’s aea365 post, I am very excited to hand off those duties this week to the Chair of the College Access Programs TIG. One of AEA’s newest TIGs, CAP is building a strong group and program for the conference …
CAP Week: Rita O’Sullivan on Lessons Learned in Evaluating College Access Programs Read More »
