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Toward Racial-Equity: A SJEDI Checklist by Tamara Young

1 Comment / Uncategorized / June 20, 2021

I’m Tamara Young, an associate professor in Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis at North Carolina State University.  I teach evaluation theory and practice. Today, I’m going to discuss a project that I am developing to help students and me be more conscientious about addressing social justice, equity, diversity and inclusion (SJEDI) in evaluation with special attention to racial …

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DOVP Week: June Gothberg on Creating Evaluation Designs that are Flexible and Perceptible for All

3 Comments / Disabilities and Underrepresented Populations / August 30, 2012

Greeting, I am June Gothberg, Senior Researcher at Western Michigan University. You may also recognize me as the intern Lead Curator for aea365. My AEA internship is ending this month and I will be passing the torch to another. Look for forthcoming details from Susan Kistler. My colleague, Jennifer Sullivan Sulewski and I co-chair the …

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Kylie Hutchinson on Effective Reporting Techniques for Evaluators

Leave a Comment / Data Visualization and Reporting / January 16, 2016

My name is Kylie Hutchinson.  I am an independent evaluation consultant and trainer with Community Solutions Planning & Evaluation.  I give regular webinars and workshops on evaluation topics for the AEA and CES and Twitter weekly at @EvaluationMaven. Like all of you, I try to be conscientious about conducting the best evaluation possible.  But for …

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IE Week: Andrew Anderson on The Role of InternalEvaluators inSupporting the Implementation of Evaluation Recommendations

Leave a Comment / Internal Evaluation / May 25, 2012

My name is Andrew Anderson and I’m the manager of an internal evaluation team in one of Australia’s largest charities, The Benevolent Society. One of our guiding principles is to make our evaluations useful. But when we surveyed our 800 staff two years ago they told us that, although they valued evaluation, they didn’t think …

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NA Week: Maurya West Meiers on Planning and Managing Your Needs Assessment

Leave a Comment / Needs Assessment / March 24, 2012

My name is Maurya West Meiers and I work at the World Bank as an Evaluation Officer. I’m writing to share information from our book on planning for and managing your needs assessment. Lessons Learned – Use checklists: Don’t underestimate the power and usefulness of checklists. Airline pilots are required to use them. Many surgeons …

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Salvatore Alaimo on Navigating the Evaluator’s Role in Evaluation Capacity Building

Leave a Comment / Nonprofits and Foundations Evaluation, Organizational Learning and Evaluation Capacity Building / April 27, 2010

Hello, my name is Salvatore Alaimo and I am an Assistant Professor in the School of Public, Nonprofit and Health Administration at Grand Valley State University. I would like to share some tips on the evaluator’s role in evaluation capacity building with nonprofit organizations. Evaluation Capacity Building (ECB) continues to gain momentum in the literature …

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Canadian Evaluation Conference – Going Green, Gold, and Global

2 Comments / Environmental Program Evaluation, International and Cross-cultural Evaluation / August 24, 2010

We are the Green Team, aka Kim Walker and Karen Truesdale, members of the organizing committee for the 2010 Conference of the Canadian Evaluation Society. Our role is to encourage practices that optimize the environmental impact of this large conference. Why worry about being “green”? …. during a typical five day conference, 500 attendees will …

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Amy Germuth on reports and checklists

4 Comments / Evaluation Use / May 2, 2010

My name is Amy A. Germuth, President of EvalWorks, LLC (http://EvalWorks.com) and owner/blogger at EvalThoughts.com. I’ve worked over the last year on improving my evaluation reports to better meet my client’s needs and have a few great resources to help you do the same. Rad Resource: “Unlearning Some of our Social Scientist Habits” by Jane …

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