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STEM TIG Week: Jason Ravitz on Embedding Evaluation in Design of CS Education Programs

Welcome to STEM TIG week! My name is Jason Ravitz and I conduct research and manage evaluations of educational outreach projects at Google. This week our blogs focus on Computer Science (CS) education which may officially be counted as a STEM field by act of Congress. The CS First project is one curriculum that is …

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ROE TIG Week: Miriam Jacobson and Tarek Azzam on Using Crowdsourcing to Study Evaluation Practice

Hi! This is Miriam Jacobson, a Doctoral Student, and Tarek Azzam, an Associate Professor, at Claremont Graduate University. We are talking today about how to use online crowdsourcing to conduct RoE (Research on Evaluation). Online crowdsourcing is a process of recruiting people online to do specific tasks, such as completing a survey, categorizing information, or translating text. We …

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NA TIG Week: Lisle Hites Using GIS in Your Needs Assessment

I’m Lisle Hites, Chair of the Needs Assessment TIG and Director of the Evaluation and Assessment Unit (EAU) at the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB). Today’s posting is about the use of data visualization to enhance your needs assessment. Recently, my team worked with a state agency to help them identify potential sites for …

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LA RED Week: Josie Serrata, Martha Hernandez and Grisel M. Robles-Schrader on Building the Evaluation Capacity of Latina/o Community Based Organizations as Transformation

?Saludos! We are evaluators and researchers who work alongside Latina/o communities, Josie Serrata and Martha Hernandez work at the National Latin@ Network, a project of Casa de Esperanza, a nationally recognized culturally-specific community based organization (CBO). Grisel M. Robles-Schrader, is President of Robles-Schrader Consulting. As supporting members of the newly formed LA RED network, this …

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LAWG Week: Mya Martin-Glenn & Lisa M. Jones on Evaluation in Public School Districts

We are Mya Martin-Glenn and Lisa M. Jones, and we work in the Division of Accountability & Research at Aurora Public Schools in Colorado. We will be sharing how external evaluators can learn some of the nuances of requesting school data. We also will give you a few hot tips for attending the AEA conference …

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SW TIG Week: Kathy Bolland on Ethics in Evaluation and in Social Professions

Hello!  I am Kathy Bolland, like many of you, a wearer of many hats.  I am an administrator and faculty member in a school of social work, where my research focuses on impoverished youth at risk and on assessment in higher education.  I also evaluate educational projects and social programs.  I am a past AEA …

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Dan McDonnell on Keyboard Shortcuts and Other Advanced Twitter Features

My name is Dan McDonnell and I am a Community Manager at the American Evaluation Association (AEA). For today’s Saturday post, we’ll be covering a few advanced Twitter tips for evaluators: features that fly under the radar enough to be considered ‘secret!’ Rad Resource: Hidden Keyboard Shortcuts Find yourself  without a computer mouse or working …

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Best of aea365 week: Ted Dwyer on Responding to FERPA for Evaluators

My name is Ted Dwyer and I’m the Manager of Evaluations in Hillsborough County Public Schools. I have worked in multiple school districts and have served as the reviewer of external research projects in several districts. Today, I would like to share some of what I have learned and observed about FERPA and some thoughts from the perspective of …

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Artineh Samkian and Joelle Greene on Graphic Timelines to Capture Qualitative Process Data

Hello! We are Artineh Samkian and Joelle Greene. Artineh is an Assistant Professor of Clinical Education at USC and Joelle is a Senior Research Associate at Harder+Co in Los Angeles. Recently, we worked together to conduct an implementation evaluation of a place-based effort funded by First 5 LA. Because we are both very interested in …

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Rachel Hickson on Simple Ways to Improve Data Collected Through Observations

Hi! I’m Rachel Hickson, an evaluation specialist with Montgomery County Public Schools in Rockville, MD. Observations can be vital to measuring program fidelity.  Yet they take a disproportionate share of effort and money when compared with other data collection methods.  Can we stretch their utility to produce better data? Lesson Learned: You don’t have a …

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