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 have shared the handouts in the AEA Public eLibrary! These materials, ranging from slides to bibliographies, to resource lists, are available to anyone to kickstart your own learning (and perhaps whet your appetite to join us next year in Atlanta – I’ll keep you informed about dates as they are finalized via aea365).
- Bringing Funders, Researchers/Evaluators, and Practitioners Together to Achieve Outcomes: The Interactive Systems Framework (ISF) for Dissemination and Implementation (Wandersman & House)
- Conducting and Using Success Stories for Capacity Building (Lavinghouze & Price)
- The Democratization of Data Insight: 20 Free Tools for Data Access, Analysis, and Reporting and Considerations for Their Use (Kistler)
- Dissemination and Implementation Research (Emshoff & Noonan)
- Enhanced Group Facilitation: Techniques and Process (Dewey)
- Evaluating Environmental Change Strategies… Beyond Counting the Number of Laws Passed (Pettibone)
- Every Picture Tells a Story: Flow Charts, Logic Models, LogFrames, Etc. What They Are and When to Use Them (Chapel)
- Handling Data: From Logic Model to Final Report (Barrington)
- How Policy Is Made and How Evaluators Can Affect It (Grob)
- Improving Survey Quality: Assessing and Increasing Survey Reliability and Validity (Germuth)
- An Introduction to Economic Evaluation (Corso)
- Introduction to Evaluation (Apt)
- Leading Concepts in Community Health Evaluation (Goodman)
- Lessons From the Field: Ways to Improve Your Evaluation Practice (Barrington)
- Logic Models as a Platform for Program Evaluation Planning, Implementation, and Use of Findings (Honeycutt)
- Methods for Analyzing Change Over Time (McKnight)
- Minding Your Mind (Grob)
- Performance Management in the Obama Administration (Newcomer)
- Program Evaluation and Program Improvement: Challenges, Opportunities, and New Directions at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (Collins)
- RealWorld Evaluation (Rugh)
- Qualitative Evaluation Approaches (Goodman)
- Quantitative Methods for Evaluation (McKnight)
- Rethinking Social Change Using Social Media (Fine)
- Strengthening Evaluation Through Cultural Relevance and Cultural Competence (Kirkhart & Hopson) also available here
- Systems Level Evaluation of Communities of Practice (Hegedus & Jernigan)
- Transformative Mixed Methods Evaluation (Mertens & Bledsoe) Plus list of references
- Translation of Evaluation Capacity Building Strategies to Community-Based Organizations Conducting Health Promotion Activities: Tools, Tips and Lessons Learned (Akintobi)
- Using GIS in Evaluation (Meyers)
- Using Program Evaluation to Improve Nonprofit Outcomes (Newcomer)
- Using the Guiding Principles to Improve Your Evaluation Practice (Goodyear)
- Writing Questions that Elicit What You’re Looking For (Pohl)