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Steve Fleming on Using Data Visualization to Communicate with Stakeholders

6 Comments / Integrating Technology into Evaluation / November 30, 2010 October 18, 2010

My name is Steve Fleming, and I am a Senior Systems Analyst for the National Center for Educational Achievement (NCEA) in Austin, TX. NCEA is a department of ACT, Inc., a not-for-profit organization committed to helping people achieve education and workplace success. NCEA builds the capacity of educators and leaders to create educational systems of …

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Lyn Paleo on Graphic-Based Reports and Graphics for Color-Impaired Readers

Hi, Lyn Paleo here, Evaluation Manager at First 5 Contra Costa (California), a small foundation funding services for children birth to five years and their families using California tobacco tax dollars. At First 5 Contra Costa, the days of 100+ page text-heavy reports are over. Instead, we combine maps, graphs, and other visual formats with …

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Systems Week: Heath & Lakshmanan on Using Systems Thinking to Evaluate Collaboratives

Leave a Comment / Systems in Evaluation / October 17, 2010 October 22, 2010

Hi, this is Barbara Heath and Aruna Lakshmanan of East Main Educational Consulting, LLC. Our group focuses on the evaluation of science, mathematics, and technology programs in K-12 schools and institutes of higher learning. Most evaluation methods assume that the organization or program being evaluated is stable, controllable, and predictable. When the organization is complex, …

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Susan Kistler on Data-driven Journalism and Its Lessons for Evaluation

2 Comments / Evaluation Use / October 9, 2010 September 1, 2011

My name is Susan Kistler and I am AEA’s Executive Director. I have the privilege of contributing each Saturday’s post to aea365. Data-driven Journalism (DDJ) focuses on using and visualizing data in a journalistic context. I believe that we, as evaluators, have a great deal to learn from some of the best data-based journalism (and, …

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Susan Kistler on Data Visualization Part II

12 Comments / Data Visualization and Reporting / September 4, 2010 April 20, 2011

My name is Susan Kistler, the American Evaluation Association’s Executive Director, and I contribute each Saturday’s post to aea365. One hot topic for me this year is data visualization – representing data in ways that are accurate, accessible, and appealing. My very first aea365 post identified resources for those with interests in data visualization – …

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Monica Hargraves on Supporting Evaluation Practice in Organizations

Leave a Comment / Cluster, Multi-site and Multi-level Evaluation, Extension Education Evaluation / September 2, 2010 August 25, 2010

My name is Monica Hargraves and I work with Cooperative Extension associations across New York State as part of an evaluation capacity building effort in the Cornell Office for Research on Evaluation (CORE). My work with Extension is shaped, in part, by insights we gained through a Concept Mapping research project we did in late …

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Nina Potter on Tableau for Data Visualization

2 Comments / Mixed Methods Evaluation, Qualitative Methods, Quantitative Methods: Theory and Design / April 26, 2010 April 27, 2010

My name is Nina Potter and I am currently the Director of Assessment for the College of Education at San Diego State University. I’d like to share a little about a tool we are using for data visualization. One of my responsibilities is to work with program directors and department chairs to evaluate academic programs …

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EPE Week: Juan Paulo Ramírez on GIS Resources

1 Comment / Environmental Program Evaluation, Integrating Technology into Evaluation / April 19, 2010 December 4, 2011

My name is Juan Paulo Ramírez and I am a research specialist with the University of Nebraska Public Policy Center. I use Geographic Information Systems (GIS) for project evaluations which have included a broad variety of applications both in the social and physical sciences. Recently a lot of interest has been concentrated on geographic visualization, …

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Jacquelyn Christensen on Wordle and Survey Anchors

2 Comments / Uncategorized / January 29, 2010 January 28, 2010

My name is Jacquelyn Christensen and I am an Evaluation Associate at a non-profit mental health agency in Los Angeles, as well as an advanced graduate student in Applied Developmental Psychology at Claremont Graduate University. I work closely with my organization to report program outcomes and monitor service quality. When working directly with staff or …

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Bianca Montrosse on Innovative Data Displays

5 Comments / Data Visualization and Reporting / January 25, 2010 April 20, 2011

My name is Bianca Montrosse and I am a Research and Evaluation Specialist with the SERVE Center at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. Since receiving my first Edward R. Tufte book as a gift, I’ve been searching for ways to visually articulate data that are both innovative and informative. Below are some rad …

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