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Steve Kymes on Incorporating Economic Evaluation into Program Evaluation

5 Comments / Costs, Effectiveness, Benefits and Economics / September 2, 2010

My name is Steve Kymes and I am the Director of the Center for Economic Evaluation in Medicine (CEEM) at Washington University in St. Louis. At CEEM, we assist investigators conducting clinical or community based research design, and implement and conduct cost-benefit and cost-effectiveness studies. While it may often seem that conducting valid and credible …

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Poster Week: Virginia Dick on Using Geographic Information Systems (GIS) in Evaluation

Leave a Comment / Collaborative, Participatory and Empowerment Evaluation, Government Evaluation, Human Services Evaluation, Integrating Technology into Evaluation / August 25, 2010

My name is Virginia Dick and I am currently public service evaluation faculty at the Carl Vinson Institute of Government at the University of Georgia. Most of my work focuses on assisting state and local government agencies, and other university divisions, with evaluation of programs, policies and systems. As part of my role I often …

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Katherine Tibbetts and Wendy Kekahio on Collaborative Inquiry

2 Comments / Indigenous Peoples in Evaluation, Multiethnic Issues in Evaluation / September 17, 2010

Hello, we are Katherine Tibbetts and Wendy Kekahio, and both program evaluators doing work within the field of education in Hawai`i. Our work involves using indigenous ways of teaching and learning to inform culturally relevant and responsive ways of conducting research and evaluation studies.  One of our recent projects involved working with Hawaiian-focused charter schools …

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Christopher Moore on Structural Equation Modeling for Theory-Driven Evaluation

4 Comments / Program Theory and Theory Driven Evaluation, Quantitative Methods: Theory and Design / August 17, 2010

Hi, my name is Christopher Moore.  I am a doctoral student in Quantitative Methods in Education at the University of Minnesota and a Quantitative Analyst at the Minnesota Department of Education.  My interests include preventing educational and health disparities, latent variable models, spatial statistical methods, and causal theory and inference. Hot Tip: So you’re conducting …

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Susan Kistler on the AEA/CDC Summer Evaluation Institute Materials

Leave a Comment / Behavioral Health, Health Evaluation / July 2, 2010

My name is Susan Kistler. I am AEA’s Executive Director and I contribute each Saturday’s aea365 post. If you didn’t have the opportunity to join your colleagues at the AEA/CDC Summer Evaluation Institute this past month, you missed some great sessions  – the agenda may be found online. Hot Tip: Over 80% of the presenters …

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Bi Deng on the Utility of GIS

3 Comments / Integrating Technology into Evaluation / June 4, 2010

Hi, my name is Bi Deng. I am a doctoral student at Claremont Graduate University (CGU) studying Organizational Behavior with a co-concentration in Evaluation. Back in 2009, I attended a CGU workshop by our GIS specialist Warren Roberts and was blown away by the utility of GIS in social science research, particularly for evaluation projects. …

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Susan Kistler on Lessons Learned Using Online Survey Software

7 Comments / Integrating Technology into Evaluation / June 11, 2010

My name is Susan Kistler and I am AEA’s Executive Director. I contribute each Saturday’s post to the aea365 blog. This week, Lois Ritter and Tessa Robinette gave a great (free!) webinar for AEA comparing Surveymonkey and Zoomerang, helping to compare and contrast the two for potential new users. Building on their presentation, and from …

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Boris Volkov on What (Internal) Evaluators Can Do to Advance Evaluation Capacity Building

Leave a Comment / Internal Evaluation, Organizational Learning and Evaluation Capacity Building / June 3, 2010

My name is Boris Volkov, and I am Assistant Professor in Evaluation Studies at the University of North Dakota. I’m involved with internal evaluation (IE) and evaluation capacity building (ECB) so I’ll share couple relevant tips and resources. We know that the ECB practice is different from program evaluation. Obviously, the goal of ECB is …

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