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ICCE TIG Week: Reevaluating Distance Education Teaching in the Era of Covid-19: Contextualizing Teacher Evaluation by Edith J. Cisneros-Cohernour

Hello, I am Edith J. Cisneros-Cohernour, I graduated from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and now work as a full professor for the Autonomous University of Yucatan. My expertise lies in education research, specifically in evaluating the quality of education, program evaluation, and equity issues. Here, I discuss the implications of evaluating distance education …

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ICCE TIG Week: Birth Story of Mongolian Evaluation Association (MEA) by Erdenechimeg (Chimgee) Ulziisuren

Greetings! I’m Erdenechimeg (Chimgee) Ulziisuren, Founder & President of Mongolian Evaluation Association (MEA). I am also a CEO & Founder of Cognos International LLC – Research and Evaluation Company. I would like to share with you the story of MEA’s birth On September 7, 2021, I founded MEA with a vision to promote professionalization and institutionalization …

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ICCE TIG Week: The Evolution of Evaluation in South Korea by Injae Son and Minji Cho

Hello, we are Injae Son, a doctoral student in the Interdisciplinary Ph.D. in Evaluation (IDPE) program at Western Michigan University, and Minji Cho, a doctoral student at Claremont Graduate University. As South Koreans, we have recently been discussing the origins and practice of evaluation in our home country. Since we are among the few international …

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ICCE TIG Week: Honoring Holistic Worldviews by Integrating Intangible Domains by Kurt Wilson and Aaron Kates

Hello AEA 365 Readers! We are Kurt and Aaron, independent evaluation consultants with Effect X LLC. Our experience includes international and cross-cultural evaluations and capacity building projects around the world for organizations such as UNICEF, The World Food Program, The World Bank, Compassion International, Heifer International and The Carter Center.  For those new to the …

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ICCE TIG Week: Retrospective Impact Evaluation for the Real World: How to Credibly Evaluate Completed Change Efforts Years after Exit and With Less-than-ideal Evidence by Jane Davidson and Thomaz Chianca

Hi! We’re Thomaz Chianca and Jane Davidson. We have been collaborating over the past several years to help organizations use evaluation to drive and learn from systems transformation that addresses both equity and environmental sustainability. It is challenging to evaluate change efforts that have closed out several years earlier – especially when the evidence is …

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DVR TIG Week: Creating Visually Appealing Findings Reports for Federal Clients by Jessie Rouder, Alyssa Contreras, Samantha Hubbard, Chloe Bryen, Michelle Segall, and Cindy Hockaday

We are excited to share some useful tips for creating visually appealing findings reports for federal clients. Allow us to introduce the team—Jessie Rouder, Alyssa Contreras, Samantha Hubbard, Chloe Bryen, Michelle Segall, and Cindy Hockaday are based in ICF’s Public Health Solutions portfolio. In late 2022, the team supported the creation of several reports to disseminate key …

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DVR TIG Week: Four Fun Chart Hacks To Make Data More Engaging by Amelia Kohm

Hello! I’m Amelia Kohm of Data Viz for Nonprofits (DVN). DVN helps organizations to quickly grasp their data, improve their work, and show their impact and offers up weekly 60-Second Data Tips to those in the nonprofit world. Rad Resources Have you played around with charts in Canva? It’s a great, free online design tool. …

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DVR TIG Week: Gathering Feedback on Data Visualizations by Christy King

Hello! My name is Christy King. I am the Internal Evaluator for Pennsylvania’s State GEAR UP grant. Since I began working on the grant almost 8 years ago, one of my endeavors has been to provide data visualizations that are useful to a variety of roles. One aspect of this endeavor is being open to …

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DVR TIG Week: Unlocking Data: Extracting Data Tables from PDFs with Power Query by Zoraya Cruz-Bonilla

Hello AEA365 community! I am Zoraya Cruz-Bonilla. I work as a Data Research Analyst in the Division of Student Affairs at Binghamton University. If you have ever had the privilege of performing text analytics with open-source PDF files, then you understand the innate challenges – they are not standardized for easy extraction. In fact, a simple copy/paste can lead to more tedious manual steps in order to maintain structural integrity.

DVR TIG Week: Considering Accessibility in Evaluation Presentations by Caitlyn Bukaty and Morgan Buras-Finlay

Hello! We are Morgan Buras-Finlay and Caitlyn Bukaty. I, Caitlyn, have served as a leader of the AEA Disabilities and Underrepresented Populations (DUP) TIG for many years and work as a research associate at the Institute for Community Inclusion at UMass Boston. I, Morgan, am an evaluator and researcher, and also identify as hard of …

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