My name is Laurel Lamb and I’ve been a practicing evaluator (although sometimes under the guise of organizational development) for over twenty years. When I sat down to write, I wanted to contemplate what I would share with someone new coming into the field. What have I learned that you couldn’t find in a textbook …
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My name is LaMarcus Bolton, and I am the American Evaluation Association’s Technology Director, as well as a doctoral student in Industrial-Organization Psychology. The majority of us use computers and the Internet on a regular basis for our work and personal lives. However, with the dependence on such technologies comes great risks to our data. …
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My name is Steve Fleming, and I work for the National Center for Educational Achievement, a department of ACT, Inc. whose mission is to help people achieve education and workplace success. I also earned an M.S. in Statistics from the University of Texas at Austin. I have been thinking a lot lately about how to explain …
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I’m Susan Eliot, owner and principal of Eliot & Associates, a qualitative research and evaluation firm located in Portland Oregon. I also write a qualitative blog. I’ve been an evaluator for over 20 years now. The longer I do this work, the more I appreciate the correlation between quality evaluations and two core elements: (1) …
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Hello everyone! Our names are Eun Kyeng Baek and SeriaShia Chatters. We are an evaluation team and doctoral students from the University of South Florida. We have served as internal and external evaluators in program evaluations in university settings. Additionally, we have experience in the development and administration of evaluation tools. Serving as an internal …
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Our names are Lindsey Dunn and Lauren Fluegge and we are PhD. students at The University of North Carolina at Greensboro. Recently, we have been involved with a project in which the data come from many different sources and often include hundreds of thousands of cases. We used primarily three programs to organize and merge …
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Hello, this is Allison Chapman and Jia Ma, PhD students in the Assessment and Evaluation Group (AEG) at Queen’s University, Kingston, Canada. We are particularly interested in the challenges, impacts, and evaluations of large-scale assessments. Evaluative inquiry contributes to the personal and professional growth of individuals within organizations through the process of exploring individuals’ values, …
My name is Susan Kistler and I am the American Evaluation Association’s Executive Director. Our Institute partners at the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) were kind enough to release this week preparedness guidelines for the Zombie Apocalypse, including: Identify the types of emergencies that are possible in your area. Besides a zombie apocalypse, this may …
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I am Susan Kistler, AEA’s Executive Director. After my junior year in high school, I attended a short summer program in between working 50 hours weeks at a health food restaurant. The restaurant t-shirts read “Something Natural…and Something Else” on a sea of earthy green. The summer program searched for something similarly pithy. After a …
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Hello. I’m Antonio J. Castro, and I am an assistant professor in the Department of Learning, Teaching, and Curriculum at the University of Missouri-Columbia. I teach courses in qualitative research and have been project director and coordinator for a variety of grant-funded initiatives. Project directors are constantly tasked with trying to represent the quality of …
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