AEA365 – Page 515 – A Tip-a-Day by and for Evaluators

Laura Myerchin Sklaroff on Community Based Participatory Research

3 Comments / Collaborative, Participatory and Empowerment Evaluation / March 26, 2010 April 28, 2010

My name is Laura Myerchin Sklaroff and I am a Project Manager, Researcher, and Evaluator with Los Angeles County Department of Health Services, Clinical Resource Management (LAC DHS CRM). My focus is on health care quality improvement for low income and underrepresented populations; prior to LAC DHS CRM I coordinated the nationally recognized practice-based research …

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John LaVelle on Personal Statements About Evaluation

6 Comments / Graduate Student and New Evaluators, Independent Consulting, Teaching of Evaluation / March 25, 2010 April 28, 2010

My name is John LaVelle, I am an advanced graduate student at Claremont Graduate University. When I worked as the Jobs Coordinator for my department, I would encourage the students to develop a personal statement about evaluation. This is important because when they would go to interviews, they would often be asked to describe their …

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Jason Terry on Challenges in Evaluating Peacebuilding Activities

Leave a Comment / Uncategorized / March 24, 2010 August 24, 2010

My name is Jason Terry and I’m an international education professional by day and a conflict resolution trainer and human rights advocate by night, working with youth and low-income LGBT people in the District of Columbia. Like some of the other folks who have posted here, I’m also not an evaluator, but I strongly believe …

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Stephen Axelrad on Knowledge Management

3 Comments / Uncategorized / March 23, 2010 March 23, 2010

My name is Stephen Axelrad. I am a Human Capital consultant with Booz Allen Hamilton’s Human Capital and Learning team. I consult with the US Department of Defense agencies on issues relating to human resources program evaluation, employee engagement, organizational culture, and performance measurement/management. I have had an ongoing interest and involvement with knowledge management …

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David Devlin-Foltz on Tools for Advocacy Evaluation

2 Comments / Advocacy and Policy Change / March 22, 2010 April 29, 2010

My name is David Devlin-Foltz and I direct the Advocacy Planning and Evaluation Program at the Aspen Institute, a Washington, DC, based think tank and convening organization. I am not an evaluator, but occasionally I play one at AEA conferences and client meetings. Why the confession? Because I am a career policy wonk with 25 years of …

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Julia Coffman on Developing Effective Public Policy Strategies

2 Comments / Advocacy and Policy Change / March 21, 2010 April 29, 2010

My name is Julia Coffman and I am Director of the Center for Evaluation Innovation, a nonprofit effort that is building the field of evaluation in hard-to-measure areas such as advocacy, communications, and systems change. I am also a strategy and evaluation consultant to nonprofits and foundations, specializing in advocacy and policy change efforts. Advocacy …

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Susan Kistler on Laughing With Evaluators

1 Comment / Uncategorized / March 20, 2010 March 19, 2010

My name is Susan Kistler and I am the Executive Director for the American Evaluation Association. I contribute each Saturday’s posting to the AEA365 Blog. Recently, evaluators have been showing off their funny bones and I wanted to share with you the following, not only to make you laugh, but also because they make one …

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Elizabeth Harris on A Measure of Youth Resiliency

Leave a Comment / Behavioral Health, Quantitative Methods: Theory and Design, Youth Focused Evaluation / March 19, 2010 December 21, 2011

Greetings colleagues! I am Elizabeth Harris, Ph.D., Vice President of Evaluation, Management and Training Associates, Inc. (EMT). The focus of this blog is a free resource for measuring youth resiliency that we developed out of necessity. For over 25 years, we have focused our evaluation, technical assistance, and training work on the prevention of substance …

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David Fetterman on Google

4 Comments / Collaborative, Participatory and Empowerment Evaluation, Integrating Technology into Evaluation / March 18, 2010 April 29, 2010

Hi. I am David Fetterman, President and CEO of Fetterman & Associates (with 25 years of experience at Stanford University). I work in many areas of evaluation including as you may know – empowerment evaluation. One of my primary concerns is fostering collaboration in evaluation. My Hot Tip and Cool Trick both spring from the …

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David McDonald on assessing service user satisfaction

1 Comment / Behavioral Health / March 17, 2010 April 29, 2010

My name is David McDonald and I am the Director of a small Australia-based consultancy Social Research & Evaluation Pty Ltd, and a part-time academic at the National Centre for Epidemiology and Population Health, The Australian National University, in Canberra, ACT, Australia. My consultancy work is largely policy analysis and policy & program evaluation in …

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