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TRE TIG Week: Community Engagement Support Metrics within Translational Research

 Hi, I’m Grisel M. Robles-Schrader, Director of Evaluation and Stakeholder-Academic Resource Panels (ShARPs) and Director of the Applied Practice Experience at Northwestern University. I am also co-chair of the Latinx Responsive Evaluation Discourse (La RED) TIG. Hi, I’m Keith Herzog, Administrative Director and Assistant Director of Evaluation, Northwestern University Clinical and Translational Sciences Institute (NUCATS) and …

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ITE TIG Week: Research on Evaluation: Describing the Use of Technology in the Monitoring, Evaluation, Research, and Learning Space by Linda Raftree and Michael Harnar

Hello! It’s Linda Raftree and Michael Harnar here, both fresh from the MERL Tech Conference in Washington, DC September 4-6, 2019. Linda is the organizer of the conference, which brings together a multidisciplinary community of evaluators, non-profit professionals, data scientists, government agencies and funders to learn and share their work and their challenges in responsibly …

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Advocacy vs Objectivity in Evaluation by Yuan(Linda) Zhou

Hello everyone! I am Yuan (Linda) Zhou. Besides academic training in agricultural economics. I am a current student of Graduate Diploma in Public Policy and Program Evaluation at Carleton University (Ontario, CA).  As I am learning and practicing evaluation along with the program, I am building my understanding in research paradigms. I am especially interested …

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LA RED TIG Week: Let’s Talk About Race by Elizabeth DiLuzio

Hi, my name is Elizabeth DiLuzio, and I’m the Manager of Evaluation and Strategy at Good Shepherd Services in New York City. Today, I want to talk about race. As evaluators, we are united by a commitment to social justice. Yet when is the last time you stopped to consider what it means when race …

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MVE TIG Week: Military Evaluation Methods: Maintaining Rigor when Context Limits Design Choices by Stephen Axelrad and Lara Hilton

Hello! It’s Stephen Axelrad and Lara Hilton, the Co-Chairs of the Military and Veteran Evaluation TIG. We will be sharing experiences evaluating military programs where context can sometime constrain design. This information should be of interest to a broad group of evaluators who assess programs where the setting may dictate or limit the kinds of …

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Contribution, Leadership, and Renewal: Perspectives of three newly trained evaluators by Carolina De La Rosa Mateo, Audrey Hanson, and Lindsay Anderson

Hello! We are Carolina De La Rosa Mateo, Audrey Hanson, and Lindsay Anderson, three of the newest additions at Professional Data Analysts (PDA), a public health evaluation firm based in Minneapolis, MN. As new evaluators (two fresh out of MPH programs, one PhD candidate), we will share insight into how graduate programs have prepared us …

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Measuring Your Mission by The Evaluation Team at MHP Salud

Greetings from the Evaluation Team for national nonprofit organization MHP Salud! This post discusses strategies for measuring your mission. Most organizations adopt a mission statement to guide their work. While alignment with this mission is arguably an organization’s most important metric, evaluating it can prove challenging in practice. Metrics defined by external stakeholders (e.g., funders) …

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CD TIG Week: Lesson Learned from Foundation, Multi-site, and Community-based Organization Evaluation by Tom David

Hi AEA Members! I’m Tom David and I’ve been working in and around “organized” philanthropy for 30 years.   About ten years ago I was asked to advise a large foundation on how to think about evaluating a planned 10-year multi-site, “place-based” initiative. As talking points for a conversation with them, I jotted down the following …

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LAWG Week: Afterschool Programs: Young People are Evaluation Experts by Cheryl Meld

Greetings from McGregor, Minnesota! I am Cheryl Meld, Afterschool Program Director at McGregor Public School. McGregor is located in Greater Minnesota about 2.5 hours from the Twin Cities (120 miles). I am excited to share my experience about how to approach evaluating the complex 21st Century Community Learning Centers (21st CCLC) program. This competitive grant …

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Visualizing results from an evaluative rubric, Part I by Stephanie Chasteen

I’m Stephanie Chasteen, an external evaluator on NSF-funded projects aiming to improve STEM education at the university level. This is part 1 of a 2-part series on evaluative rubrics. In today’s post I’ll talk about how we developed the rubric. Tomorrow I’ll share how we created visuals from the rubric data to inform action steps. …

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