Poster Week: Virginia Dick on Using Geographic Information Systems (GIS) in Evaluation

Leave a Comment / Collaborative, Participatory and Empowerment Evaluation, Government Evaluation, Human Services Evaluation, Integrating Technology into Evaluation /

My name is Virginia Dick and I am currently public service evaluation faculty at the Carl Vinson Institute of Government at the University of Georgia. Most of my work focuses on assisting state and local government agencies, and other university divisions, with evaluation of programs, policies and systems. As part of my role I often […]

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Susan Kistler on Data Visualization Part II

12 Comments / Data Visualization and Reporting /

My name is Susan Kistler, the American Evaluation Association’s Executive Director, and I contribute each Saturday’s post to aea365. One hot topic for me this year is data visualization – representing data in ways that are accurate, accessible, and appealing. My very first aea365 post identified resources for those with interests in data visualization –

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Nicole Jackson on Improving Interview Techniques During Formative Evaluations

Leave a Comment / International and Cross-cultural Evaluation, Qualitative Methods /

Hello, my name is Nicole Jackson. I am both an adjunct faculty in the Human Resource Management Certificate program at U.C. Berkeley Extension and a doctoral candidate in Policy, Organization, Measurement, and Evaluation at U.C. Berkeley’s Graduate School of Education. From my previous and current work, I discovered that interviewing is both an art and

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Monica Hargraves on Supporting Evaluation Practice in Organizations

Leave a Comment / Cluster, Multi-site and Multi-level Evaluation, Extension Education Evaluation /

My name is Monica Hargraves and I work with Cooperative Extension associations across New York State as part of an evaluation capacity building effort in the Cornell Office for Research on Evaluation (CORE).  My work with Extension is shaped, in part, by insights we gained through a Concept Mapping research project we did in late

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Michelle Jay on Lessons Learned in Acquiring Stakeholder Feedback

2 Comments / Collaborative, Participatory and Empowerment Evaluation, College Access Programs, Evaluation Managers and Supervisors /

My name is Michelle Jay and I am an Assistant Professor at the University of South Carolina. I am an independent evaluator and also an evaluation consultant with Evaluation, Assessment and Policy Connections (EvAP) in the School of Education at UNC-Chapel Hill. Currently I serve with Rita O’Sullivan as Directors of AEA’s Graduate Education Diversity Internship

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Katherine Tibbetts and Wendy Kekahio on Collaborative Inquiry

2 Comments / Indigenous Peoples in Evaluation, Multiethnic Issues in Evaluation /

Hello, we are Katherine Tibbetts and Wendy Kekahio, and both program evaluators doing work within the field of education in Hawai`i. Our work involves using indigenous ways of teaching and learning to inform culturally relevant and responsive ways of conducting research and evaluation studies.  One of our recent projects involved working with Hawaiian-focused charter schools

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Randahl Kirkendall and Ellen Iverson on Integrating Web Analytics into Mixed Methods Evals

1 Comment / Integrating Technology into Evaluation, Mixed Methods Evaluation /

My name is Randahl Kirkendall. I work part-time as an Evaluator with Ellen Iverson, Director of Evaluation, for the Science Education Resource Center (SERC) at Carleton College, which works to improve education through projects that support educators.  Our work is funded primarily through NSF grants.  SERC has expertise in geoscience education, workshop leadership, website development

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Michael Matteson on the Hawthorne Effect and Empowerment Evaluation

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I’m Michael Matteson and I’m pursuing a graduate degree at the University of Wollongong (Australia). Lessons Learned – What’s the Hawthorne effect? Why would it matter in Empowerment Evaluation? Most people will remember hearing of the “Hawthorne effect “based on a major study of organizational and environmental effects on productivity which gave confusing and contradictory

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