My name is Brad Watts, and I am a seasoned evaluator with a career background that includes positions at two different university-based centers. Currently, I serve as the Assistant Director of The Evaluation Center at Western Michigan University (WMU) and the co-program chair for the University-Based Centers (UBC) TIG. As The Evaluation Center begins its …
Greetings! My name is Adrian Neely. I am a Research Associate at the HBCU STEM US Center at Morehouse College. The mission of our center is to promote undergraduate success and retention of students majoring in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math (STEM) disciplines. Our center includes STEM programs and interventions to support undergraduate student success …
Hi, we are Cathy Hearn, Vicki Bigelow, and Nate Phipps of the University of Michigan Center for Education Design, Evaluation, and Research (CEDER). Here we share our model for creating a supportive, authentic learning environment for new and emerging evaluators. A version of this blog post was first presented at the 2022 American Evaluation Association …
Hello everyone! We are Miriam Jacobson and Natashia Bibriescas with the Expanding Pathways in Computing (EPIC) STEM Evaluation Services team at The University of Texas at Austin. As university-based evaluators, we work with researchers and educators to study computer science (CS) education through evaluation, research, and data analytics. This year we were part of a …
Hi, we are Sam Robison, Associate Professor of Research at the Social Research and Evaluation Center (SREC) at Louisiana State University, and Joey Rutherford, Associate Director of the Center for Research Evaluation (CERE) at the University of Mississippi. We, along with Sarah Mason (from CERE) and Eden Kyse from Montclair State’s Center for Research and …
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Hi! We are Liz Litzler, Erin Carll, and Emily Knaphus-Soran from the University of Washington Center for Evaluation & Research for STEM Equity. In honor of next week being University-Based Center TIG Week, today, we would like to share a little about how we center equity in our work as a University-Based Center. As a center that is focused on conducting high quality program evaluation and research to improve equity and broaden representation in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics fields, we feel like we are always thinking about equity- both in how we do our work and how we operate the center.
Hello! We’re Madeleine deBlois and Rachel Leih, from the Community Research, Evaluation & Development (CRED) Team at the University of Arizona (UA). CRED is a fun & funky group of folks at UA who come from a variety of backgrounds and work on a broad range of projects for UA departments, UA’s Cooperative Extension, and community partners.
We are Eden Kyse and Erin Bunger Johnson, Director and Associate Director of the Center for Research and Evaluation on Education and Human Services (CREEHS) at Montclair State University.
Hi. I am David Fetterman. I am the president of Fetterman & Associates, an international evaluation firm. I am also a past-president of the American Evaluation Association and a co-chair of the Collaborative, Participatory, and Empowerment Evaluation TIG. I am the founder of empowerment evaluation and I see some parallels between empowerment evaluation and the artificial intelligence tool ChapGPT.
Hi I’m Kim Sabo Flores, CEO and co-founder of Hello Insight, an online learning and evaluation platform that supports thousands of youth-serving nonprofits across the country to continuously learn and improve their work with data and insights from young people. And I’m Andrea Juarez Mendoza, a participatory researcher with twenty years of experience engaging youth in social justice inquiry and action.
