Hello, I am Mindelyn Anderson, PhD, Founder + Principal of Mirror Group LLC, and Equitable Evaluation Initiative Teaching Case Facilitator. In my evaluation consultant work, I am always on the hunt for learning and development activities and approaches to engage across funders, grantees, and communities. With that pursuit in mind, I find the Teaching Case …
Hello, I am Pia Saunders Campbell, Director of Measurement, Evaluation & Learning at the International Youth Foundation (IYF) and Communications Co-Chair of the Youth-Focused Evaluation TIG, here with my colleague Alejandra De Freitas. IYF’s belief that educated, employed, and engaged young people possess the power to solve the world’s toughest problems inherently leads to a …
This is a post in the series commemorating pioneering evaluation studies in conjunction with Memorial Day in the USA (May 28). My name is Stephanie Evergreen and I was the 2017 AEA Alva and Gunnar Myrdal Evaluation Practice Award recipient, given to an evaluator “who exemplifies outstanding evaluation practice and who has made substantial cumulative contributions.” I’m …
Hi all! I’m Brittany Iskarpatyoti; I serve as the editor of the Feminist Issues in Evaluation TIG newsletter and work for MEASURE Evaluation- a project funded by the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) that strengthens health information systems in low-resource settings. I work in the gender portfolio and I want to share a …
FIE TIG Week: Supply and Demand of Gender Data by Brittany Iskarpatyoti Read More »
Hi y’all, we are Anne Rudnicki, Bruce Niebuhr, Mary Jo Urbani and Virginia Niebuhr from the pedi.edtech faculty development project at the University of Texas Medical Branch. For our evaluation, we needed to transcribe faculty interviews. Transcription is time-consuming; and paying transcriptionists and/or purchasing voice recognition software can be expensive. We found that Google Voice …
Hello! I’m Martha A. Brown President of RJAE Consulting. Lately, an endless stream of conference speakers, blog writers, Indigenous evaluators, and authors have confronted and challenged my “programming” as an evaluator. Traditional evaluation methods place tremendous emphasis on research methods and evaluation theory – but not necessarily on the people we work with and for. …
Labor Day Week: Evaluation as a Labor of Love by Martha A. Brown Read More »
My name is Art Hernandez and I am a Visiting Professor at University of the Incarnate Word in San Antonio, Texas. I participated in the second yearlong experience of the AEA Minority Serving Institutions Fellowship program and have served as the Director for several cohorts most recently this past year. I teach and practice Evaluation …
Hi! My name is Jan Noga and I am the owner of Pathfinder Evaluation and Consulting in Cincinnati, Ohio. I’m also a long-time member of the Systems TIG and user of systems thinking in my evaluation practice. A systems perspective for evaluation provides incredible insight into the “how” and “why” of program outcomes, generating rich …
Systems in Eval TIG: Jan Noga on Speaking “Systems” with Non-Systems Folks Read More »
Hi, my name is Travis Tatum and I currently work as an independent evaluator through my company Creative Research Solutions, LLC. As President of the Atlanta-area Evaluation Association it is my pleasure to welcome you to our affiliate’s AEA365 week! This week, our members will be contributing AEA365 posts with advice, best practices, and new tools …
Hi, I’m Gretchen Shanks with the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation’s Strategy, Measurement and Evaluation (SM&E) team. Our team works to ensure the foundation’s leadership, program teams and partners have the necessary capacity, tools and support to measure progress, to make decisions and to learn what works best to achieve our goals. Before the Foundation, …
NPF TIG Week: Gretchen Shanks on What Do We Mean by “Evaluation Resources”? Read More »
