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YFE TIG Week: Lan To on Conducting Youth-Driven Research for a Youth-Led Summit

2 Comments / Youth Focused Evaluation / December 4, 2015

Hi, I am Lan To, Director of Postsecondary Initiatives at Good Shepherd Services in New York City. Each year, Good Shepherd hosts a Youth Summit for our participants in middle-school and high-school-aged programs, where they form teams to work on a research-based service learning project over a 4-month period.  Each team is asked to identify …

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YFE TIG Week: Katie Richards-Schuster on Looking to the Future: Critical Questions for Youth-Focused Evaluation

Leave a Comment / Youth Focused Evaluation / October 2, 2015

My name is Katie Richards-Schuster and I’m the Chair for the Youth Focused Evaluation (YFE) TIG. As we wrap up another year and annual conference nears, it seems fitting to reflect on the future. From the position of chair, there has never been a more exciting time to work in the area of YFE. When …

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Graduate Students & New Evaluators TIG Week: Story Telling is a (Cognitive) Science by Briana Thompson Ford

Leave a Comment / Graduate Student and New Evaluators / January 27, 2024

Hey y’all! I’m Briana Ford, MPH, GSNE TIG Co-Chair, and a public health researcher and data analyst working out of my hometown, Columbia, SC. I joined AEA to learn about evaluation methods and enrich my quantitative methods with wisdom from the field. I feel responsible for making data accessible and relevant for program advocacy. My education and experience are in public health, policy, healthcare research, and cognitive science, which is the topic of this blog.

CMM TIG Week: Multisite Longitudinal Studies in Education by Edith Gozali-Lee

Leave a Comment / Cluster, Multi-site and Multi-level Evaluation / May 27, 2023

Hello, I am Edith Gozali-Lee, a research scientist at Wilder Research. I work primarily on research and evaluation projects related to education. I am currently working on a multi-site, longitudinal study of an early childhood initiative. The study includes three cohorts of school-based preschool program children in ten schools, five cohorts of community-based child care children in homes and centers, and comparison children with and without prior preschool experience. The study follows children from preschool to third grade. That’s a lot to track, making good data collection critical from the start.

Labor Day Week: Deepening our cultural understanding and competency by Stephanie Evergreen

1 Comment / Uncategorized / August 31, 2019

My name is Stephanie Evergreen and Dr. Nicole Bowman has changed my experience as a member of AEA. She’s changed yours, too, even if you don’t know it. Dr. Nicole Bowman, the 2018 Robert Ingle AEA Service Award recipient, has worked publicly and behind the scenes to push evaluators to grow their cultural competency, specifically and critically …

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A Look at Language Week: Words That Make Me Cringe by Nora Murphy Johnson

1 Comment / Uncategorized / June 23, 2019

Hi! My name is Nora Murphy Johnson, a Creative Evaluator and co-founder of TerraLuna Collaborative and the Developmental Evaluation Institute. Our blog posts this week are written by Minnesota evaluators working in justice and equity spaces, focus on words–words to retire, discard, or include. I am writing about words that make me cringe because the …

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AZENet Week: Renewing Your Strategies for Meaningful Collaboration by Jenny McCullough Cosgrove

1 Comment / Uncategorized / March 30, 2019

I’m Jenny McCullough Cosgrove (independent evaluator). I believe collaborative and participatory work in evaluation projects leads to rich learning. There are many ways to work with various stakeholders to support engagement and use in evaluation work and I am always adding strategies to my #Eval toolbox. Here are a few of my favorite ways to …

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LA RED TIG Week: Evaluar con confianza es mejorar / Evaluation with trust is improvement by Susana Morales

2 Comments / Latinx Responsive Evaluation Discourse / September 4, 2018

My name is Susana Morales and I am the Co-Founder of Communities in Collaboration | Comunidades en Colaboración. I am also a member of La Red TIG, YFE TIG, and the IC TIG and locally support the San Francisco Bay Area Evaluators and Applied Researchers group. During this short piece, I want to discuss working …

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Wilder Research Week: Edith Gozali-Lee on Multisite Longitudinal Studies in Education

Leave a Comment / Cluster, Multi-site and Multi-level Evaluation, Nonprofits and Foundations Evaluation / July 27, 2012

Hello, I am Edith Gozali-Lee, a research scientist at Wilder Research. I work primarily on research and evaluation projects related to education. I am currently working on a multi-site, longitudinal study of an early childhood initiative. The study includes three cohorts of school-based preschool program children in ten schools, five cohorts of community-based child care …

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AZENet Week: Amy Schaller and Bryna Koch on Lessons from the Trenches: Designing an Evaluation Website

1 Comment / Extension Education Evaluation, Organizational Learning and Evaluation Capacity Building / May 25, 2012

We’re Amy Schaller and Bryna Koch, Evaluation Specialists at the University of Arizona, Cooperative Extension Services. How do you support an inaugural cross-site evaluation with a national initiative while incorporating technology and building grantee capacity?  This was the charge of the CYFERnet (Children, Youth, and Families Evaluation & Research Network) Evaluation Team at the University …

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