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Best of aea365 week: McQuiston, Lippin and Bradley-Bull on Participatory Analysis

2 Comments / Business, Leadership, and Performance, Collaborative, Participatory and Empowerment Evaluation / February 1, 2014

Greetings!  We are Tom McQuiston (USW Tony Mazzocchi Center) and Tobi Mae Lippin and Kristin Bradley-Bull (New Perspectives Consulting Group).  We have collaborated for over a decade on participatory evaluation and assessment projects for the United Steelworkers (labor union).  And we have grappled mightily with how to complete high-quality data analysis and interpretation in participatory ways. Hot Tip: Carefully determine up front …

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FIE/MME Week: Alessandra Galiè on Feminist Small N Evaluation

Leave a Comment / Feminist Issues in Evaluation, Mixed Methods Evaluation / August 30, 2012

Hello! I am Alessandra Galiè, a PhD Candidate at Wageningen University in the Netherlands. From 2006 to 2011 I collaborated with a Participatory Plant Breeding programme coordinated at the International Centre for Agricultural Research in the Dry Areas (ICARDA) to assess the impact of the programme on the empowerment of the newly involved women farmers …

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CPE Week: David Fetterman on Empowerment Evaluation

4 Comments / Collaborative, Participatory and Empowerment Evaluation / April 20, 2011

I am David Fetterman, past-president of the American Evaluation Association and co-chair of the Collaborative, Participatory and Empowerment Evaluation TIG.  I have 25 years of experience at Stanford University.  Fetterman & Associates is my international evaluation consulting firm. I am also a professor of education in the School of Education at the University of Arkansas …

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Michael Matteson on the Hawthorne Effect and Empowerment Evaluation

1 Comment / Collaborative, Participatory and Empowerment Evaluation / August 7, 2010

I’m Michael Matteson and I’m pursuing a graduate degree at the University of Wollongong (Australia). Lessons Learned – What’s the Hawthorne effect? Why would it matter in Empowerment Evaluation? Most people will remember hearing of the “Hawthorne effect “based on a major study of organizational and environmental effects on productivity which gave confusing and contradictory …

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DOVP Week: Aimee Sickels on the Two Minute Logic Model

1 Comment / Collaborative, Participatory and Empowerment Evaluation, Disabilities and Underrepresented Populations / July 21, 2010

My name is Aimee Sickels and I am the Principal Evaluator and owner of Custom Evaluation Services, an independent evaluation consulting business. I am also currently working on a Ph.D. in Social Work at the University of South Carolina. My helpful hint relates to the use of logic models. I am an empowerment evaluator and believe that …

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Melissa Rivera on Engaging Stakeholders

Leave a Comment / Collaborative, Participatory and Empowerment Evaluation, Organizational Learning and Evaluation Capacity Building / April 28, 2010

Hi my name is Melissa Rivera. I am the Director of Evaluation and Research at the National Center for Prevention and Research Solutions (NCPRS). Since 2006, our organization has collaborated with the National Guard Bureau to implement an evidence-based program, Stay on Track, to over 115,000 sixth through eighth grade students nationally. Since inception, NCPRS …

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Kim Norris on Audience Response Technology

5 Comments / Uncategorized / March 2, 2010

My name is Kim Norris and I am the Evaluation Coordinator for University of Maryland Extension’s Food Supplement Nutrition Education (FSNE) program. Included in my work is to assist educators in developing useful strategies for assessing the impact of their work on our target audience, limited-income, and often, low-literacy, populations. Hot Tip: Utilize Audience Response …

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McQuiston, Lippin, and Bradley-Bull on Participatory Analysis

2 Comments / Business, Leadership, and Performance, Collaborative, Participatory and Empowerment Evaluation / October 16, 2010

Greetings!  We are Tom McQuiston (USW Tony Mazzocchi Center) and Tobi Mae Lippin and Kristin Bradley-Bull (New Perspectives Consulting Group).  We have collaborated for over a decade on participatory evaluation and assessment projects for the United Steelworkers (labor union).  And we have grappled mightily with how to complete high-quality data analysis and interpretation in participatory …

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Wayne Miller on Trustworthy Relationships

7 Comments / Uncategorized / February 27, 2010

My name is Wayne Miller and I am a senior lecturer in the Faculty of Education at Avondale College, Lake Macquarie, New South Wales, Australia.  In December I received my doctorate from the University of Wollongong following acceptance of my thesis titled Practical methods to evaluate school breakfast programs – A case study.   The study …

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