Hello, I’m Stephen Axelrad. As the chair of the Military and Veteran Evaluation (MVE) Topical Interest Group, one of the reasons why I wanted to start this TIG was to broaden the military’s understanding of what program evaluation is and broaden program evaluator’s understandings of what the military community is. While there are pockets of …
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We’re Sarah Brewer, Elise Garvey, Ted Kniker and Krystal Tomlin the current leadership of AEA’s Government Evaluation Topical Interest Group (TIG). To finish out Government Evaluation Week on AEA365, we decided to offer a glimpse into the future of Government Evaluation. Since 2015 was the 25th anniversary of the Government Evaluation TIG, we wanted to …
My name is Lauren Supplee and I work in the Office of Planning, Research and Evaluation at the Administration for Children and Families. Recent media and academic attention to transparency, replication, trust in science and lack of replication of findings in medicine research and psychology raises issues for evaluation as seen in articles in Nature …
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Hi! My name is Taylor Martin and I’m a Professor in Instructional Technology and Learning Sciences at Utah State University. I also run the Active Learning Lab (activelearninglab.org) where I work with a great bunch of colleagues and students researching and evaluating active and fun learning experiences for kids of all ages around programming, computational …
I’m Leah Goldstein Moses, Founder and CEO of The Improve Group and adjunct professor at the University of Minnesota’s Humphrey School of Public Affairs. At the beginning of 2015, four issues converged towards a specific direction that has informed our work over the year: Our recently-formed Advisory Board highlighted the importance of equity, disparities, and …
I’m Kathryn Hill, NPFTIG business co-chair with Laura Beals. To close our sponsored week for AEA365, I am focusing on internal evaluation management techniques. As a grants administrator in a nonprofit organization, I spend most of my time preparing progress and final reports on outcomes for programs with funding from foundations. This requires careful evaluation …
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Hello! My name is Nils Junge and I’m an independent consultant conducting policy analysis and evaluation on international development issues, including poverty reduction, water sector reforms, and environment. I often use Poverty and Social Impact Analysis (PSIA), an approach pioneered by the World Bank, for assessing the distributional impacts of reforms. I’d like to share …
Hi there! I’m Anne Vo, Assistant Professor of Clinical Medical Education and Associate Director of Evaluation at the Keck School of Medicine of USC. I’m also Program Chair of the Research on Evaluation TIG. I’ll share a bit about what we have learned about evaluation use within the education sector. Evaluation & Knowledge Use The …
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Hello! I am Michelle Kosmicki, Research Manager for NET Nebraska. I engage in many different types of media research, including broadcast media, digital media, social media, and web analytics. While most of the data I curate and analyze is used for monitoring performance and planning, nearly all of my grant funded reporting requires some form …
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My name is Sophia Guevara, Program Co-Chair for the Social Network Analysis (SNA) TIG. This week, several evaluation professionals have shared with this blog’s readers their thoughts on social network analysis. With posts discussing logic models to examples of the application of social network analysis on a wide-range of evaluation questions, you’ve hopefully gained a better …
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