My name is Rodney Hopson. I am a faculty member in the Department of Educational Foundations and Leadership in the School of Education at Duquesne University. For the last several years (with a host of great colleagues in AEA, with Torres Consulting Group and OMG Center for Collaborative Learning with the support of the National …
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If it’s Saturday it must be Susan! My name is Susan Kistler. I am the Executive Director for the American Evaluation Association and I contribute each Saturday’s post to the aea365 blog. Today, I am going completely practical and broadly applicable. The range of opportunities that call for working with photographs is ever increasing, including …
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My name is Kim Norris and I am the Evaluation Coordinator for University of Maryland Extension’s Food Supplement Nutrition Education (FSNE) program. Included in my work is to assist educators in developing useful strategies for assessing the impact of their work on our target audience, limited-income, and often, low-literacy, populations. Hot Tip: Utilize Audience Response …
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My name is Cindy J Wong. I am a consultant evaluation and a social science researcher in health and human services. Recently, I have been obsessed with digital video technology as a tool in social, organizational, instructional, and evaluative documentation. I recently had the chance of bringing portable video recorders to a visit to a …
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Greetings! We are Tom McQuiston (USW Tony Mazzocchi Center) and Tobi Mae Lippin and Kristin Bradley-Bull (New Perspectives Consulting Group). We have collaborated for over a decade on participatory evaluation and assessment projects for the United Steelworkers (labor union). And we have grappled mightily with how to complete high-quality data analysis and interpretation in participatory …
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My name is Wayne Miller and I am a senior lecturer in the Faculty of Education at Avondale College, Lake Macquarie, New South Wales, Australia. In December I received my doctorate from the University of Wollongong following acceptance of my thesis titled Practical methods to evaluate school breakfast programs – A case study. The study …
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My name is Linda F. Delaney and I serve as a program evaluator for my own company (LFD Consulting, LLC) in Marion, Arkansas. Since 2005, I have worked closed with Dr. David Fetterman as an evaluator for the Minority Sub-recipient Grant Office at the University of Arkansas in Pine Bluff, Arkansas (UAPB). I also serve …
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My name is Cassie Bowman. As the coordinator of NASA’s Mars student intern program, I’ve looked for ways to continuously improve the experience for the student, teacher, and scientist participants. My tip is that empowerment evaluation, used in a modified format, can be an excellent way to make improvements to a program that has constantly …
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My name is Susan Kistler. I am the Executive Director for the American Evaluation Association and I contribute each Saturday’s post to the aea365 blog. This week, I had the pleasure of speaking with two wonderful women via a conference call to assist them with preparing a proposal for the Evaluation 2010 Conference (heads up …
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My name is John LaVelle. One of the things that I have struggled with is describing what evaluation is and why it’s important. Following up on that, many people ask about how evaluation is related to research. Rad resource: Eva the Evaluator by Roger Miranda and Birgit Stadler. This is a delightful and inexpensive book …
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