Hi, I’m Dawn Hanson Smart, Senior Associate at Clegg & Associates, Inc. in Seattle, a consulting firm focused on planning and evaluation with nonprofits, state and local governments, tribal organizations, and foundations. I’ve been an evaluator for more than 25 years, with an eclectic mix of clients and projects. I think it is this diversity […]
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I’m Leslie Goodyear, and I’m a Program Officer at the National Science Foundation, in the Division of Research on Learning in Formal and Informal Settings (DRL). The programs in DRL include: Informal Science Education (ISE), Discovery Research K-12 (DR K-12), Research and Evaluation on Education in Science and Engineering (REESE), and Innovative Technology Experiences for
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Hi, I’m Lihshing Leigh Wang, and I’m an Associate Professor of Psychometrics and Quantitative Methodology at University of Cincinnati. Today I want to share with you a tip about database design. Evaluation research that involves large-scale, multi-level, multi-year, and multi-cohort data presents special challenges to evaluators. Most training programs and publication venues focus on the
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My name is Michelle Baron, and I am the aea365 coordinator beginning on July 4. Thanks to John LaVelle and Susan Kistler for a fabulous coordinating job so far. Thanks to them, we have over 500 subscribers and a seamless process of posting our Tips, Tricks, Resources, and Lessons Learned. Beginning in July, we now
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My name is Susan Kistler. I am AEA’s Executive Director and I contribute each Saturday’s aea365 post. If you didn’t have the opportunity to join your colleagues at the AEA/CDC Summer Evaluation Institute this past month, you missed some great sessions – the agenda may be found online. Hot Tip: Over 80% of the presenters
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My name is Gerri Spilka and I am the Executive Director of the OMG Center for Collaborative Learning – a consulting firm that assists and assesses change through evaluation, strategic research and planning, grants management and capacity building. Among our many projects, OMG serves as the lead management team on the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
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My name is Sarah Hug and I am a Research Associate with the Alliance for Technology, Learning and Society (ATLAS) at the University of Colorado at Boulder. I am going to give a few tips regarding “pipeline evaluation” for programs aimed at increasing enrollment and diversity in science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) fields. Pipeline
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Hello fellow evaluators!! My name is Kim Sabo Flores and I am the creator of Evaluation Access, an evaluation capacity building organization that serves non-profit staff and youth participants. I began my evaluation career with a focus on engaging children and youth in evaluation but soon realized that adult staff also needed support. Over the
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I am Martha (Marty) Henry, founder and President of M.A. Henry Consulting, LLC in St. Louis. Today I will be sharing a story and some hot tips about data confidentiality and data ownership. My firm was evaluating a federally funded project at a university under IRB oversight with approved consents for participants. The consents stated
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My name is Linda Meyer and I am an applied developmental psychology graduate student at Claremont Graduate University. I am going to give you a few tips on helping clients develop goals and objectives that can help you plan an evaluation. Knowing programs’ goals and objectives is useful for creating logic models for evaluation, but
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