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Susan Kistler on Funding Opportunities for Evaluators

Leave a Comment / Independent Consulting / June 6, 2010

My name is Susan Kistler and I am AEA’s Executive Director. I contribute each Saturday’s post to the aea365 blog. AEA is striving to help evaluators know about evaluation funding opportunities, working to improve on two fronts: Listening and Identifying: Improving our processes for knowing about funding opportunities Disseminating and Communicating: Improving our processes for …

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Tamara Bertrand Jones on Finding and Working With a Mentor

Leave a Comment / Graduate Student and New Evaluators, Multiethnic Issues in Evaluation / June 2, 2010

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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Kristi Pettibone on Evaluating Environmental Change Strategies

1 Comment / Advocacy and Policy Change / June 2, 2010

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 …

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Cameron Norman on Information Technology and Evaluation

3 Comments / Integrating Technology into Evaluation / June 2, 2010

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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Beverly Parsons on Communities of Learning, Inquiry, and Practice (CLIPs)

1 Comment / Collaborative, Participatory and Empowerment Evaluation, Organizational Learning and Evaluation Capacity Building / May 27, 2010

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 …

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Duncan Meyers on GIS and Geocoding

5 Comments / Environmental Program Evaluation, Integrating Technology into Evaluation / May 31, 2010

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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Tom Chapel on Demand for Evaluation and Great Evaluation Resources

1 Comment / Health Evaluation / May 27, 2010

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 …

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Susan Kistler on the Guiding Principles for Evaluators

Leave a Comment / Uncategorized / May 31, 2010

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 …

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Michael Szanyi on Research on Evaluation

Leave a Comment / Research on Evaluation, Theories of Evaluation / May 26, 2010

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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IRB Part III: Jim Hammerman on Developing In-house Capacity

Leave a Comment / Independent Consulting / May 21, 2010

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 …

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