My name is Susana Bonis, and I am an advanced graduate student at Claremont Graduate University. I work with small to mid-size nonprofit organizations in fundraising, strategic planning, and evaluation. Most of the organizations I work with focus on outcome measurement, and many are looking to develop their own internal evaluation capacity. I introduce nearly …
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My name is Susan Kistler, and I am the American Evaluation Association’s Executive Director. It is my pleasure to contribute each Saturday’s post to the aea365 blog. For many, blogging is still a new concept. Here are three ways to make the most of this – or any – blog. Hot Tip: Subscribe to the …
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My name is Stefanie Leite and I am a Research Assistant for Advanced Empirical Solutions and an Independent Evaluation Consultant. Interviewing is my favorite means of information gathering. There is something immensely satisfying about asking people to tell their stories, capturing them accurately and artfully, and then relaying them to the decision makers in an …
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My name is Alexey Kuzmin and I am the President of the Process Consulting Company (www.processconsulting.ru) based in Moscow, Russia. As an international evaluation consultant I am interested in exploring new and effective ways of communicating evaluation results to the interested parties. In particular, I often use cartoons. Especially when there is a need to …
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My name is Matt Galen, and I am a master’s student at Claremont Graduate University. I am primarily interested in evaluating educational and medical programs, and I have had the pleasure of contributing to several evaluations recently. I have had the opportunity to fulfill many roles, including an immensely satisfying period as a project manager. …
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My name is Theresa Murphrey and I am on the faculty at Texas A&M University. I teach both traditional classroom based student as well as distance-based learners from around the world. I have been working with a new tool that I have found to be extremely useful in facilitating teaching and learning. Rad Resource: Jing …
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My name is Claire Tourmen and I am an assistant professor in education science, in France (AgroSup Dijon). I study evaluators’ practices, skills and training. I’m interested in explaining evaluation to people who don’t know it (people involved in an evaluation for the first time, students etc.) it and I’ll share with you a simple …
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My name is Shanelle Boyle and I am a Research Assistant at EvalCorp Research & Consulting. Evaluation capacity building is not only a major interest of mine, but helping clients learn from and about evaluation is central to my everyday work. I would like to share a couple Websites that I turn to for ideas …
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My name is Susan Kistler and I am the Executive Director of the American Evaluation Association. It is my pleasure to contribute each Saturday’s post to the aea365 blog. One challenge for me is organizing and finding the volumes of files and emails on my computer. Towards that end, I offer one Hot Tip and …
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My name is SaraJoy Pond, and I am a doctoral candidate at Brigham Young University. I’m particularly interested in evaluation capacity-building for social change. Cool Trick: Chances are, if you’ve worked at all with qualitative data sets, you know the feeling of “drowning in data.” The end of an evaluation engagement often leaves me swimming …
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