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AHE TIG Week: Mwarumba Mwavita, Katye Perry, and Sarah Wilkey on How Do You Conduct an Evaluation in a Fluid, Ever Changing Ecology Like Higher Education?

1 Comment / Assessment in Higher Education / July 1, 2013

Our names are Mwarumba Mwavita, Katye Perry, and Sarah Wilkey. We are faculty and evaluators in the Center for Educational Research and Evaluation at Oklahoma State University. Higher education has constantly been engaged in the development, revamping, and implementation of programs. Often these changes result in reorganizations of existing programs and contribute to a dynamic …

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John LaVelle on Other Evaluation-Related Organizations

Leave a Comment / Uncategorized / June 17, 2013

My name is John LaVelle, I am the Director of Operations and External Affairs for the School of Behavioral & Organizational Sciences and the School of Politics & Economics at Claremont Graduate University.  I’m also a PhD candidate specializing in Evaluation and Applied Research Methods, and a past curator of the AEA365 blog.  Today I’m …

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Sheila B. Robinson on Being an AEA365 Sponsored Weeks Archaeologist!

Leave a Comment / Uncategorized / June 20, 2014

Hello! Sheila B. Robinson here, guest posting for Susan Kistler, our regular Saturday contributor. I work in PK12 education at Greece Central School District, and in higher education at the University of Rochester’s Warner School of Education. As aea365’s current Lead Volunteer Curator, I’ve had the pleasure of working with a number of groups – …

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Sheila B. Robinson on Evaluation Planning and Getting in (Evaluation) Shape for Summer

4 Comments / Uncategorized / April 14, 2013

Hi! I’m Sheila B. Robinson, AEA365’s Lead Curator. I’m also an educator with Greece Central School District, and the University of Rochester’s Warner School of Education. Today, I’ll share lessons learned about evaluation planning and a fabulous way to get ready for summer (learning about evaluation, of course!). Rudyard Kipling wrote, I keep six honest …

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Johanna Morariu, Kat Athanasiades, and Ann Emery on New Research: The State of Evaluation 2012

5 Comments / Nonprofits and Foundations Evaluation, Organizational Learning and Evaluation Capacity Building, Qualitative Methods, Quantitative Methods: Theory and Design, Research on Evaluation / March 7, 2013

Hello! We are Johanna Morariu, Kat Athanasiades, and Ann Emery from Innovation Network. For 20 years, Innovation Network has helped nonprofits and foundations evaluate and learn from their work. In 2010, Innovation Network set out to answer a question that was previously unaddressed in the evaluation field—what is the state of nonprofit evaluation practice and …

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Tarek Azzam on Using Crowdsourcing in Evaluation Practice

1 Comment / Integrating Technology into Evaluation / March 4, 2013

I am Tarek Azzam, assistant professor at Claremont Graduate University and associate director of the Claremont Evaluation Center. Today I want to talk about crowdsourcing and how it can potentially be used in evaluation practice. Generally speaking, crowdsourcing is the process of using the power of the many individuals (i.e. the crowd) to accomplish specific …

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Gisele Tchamba on Learning the Difference between Evaluation and Research

4 Comments / Graduate Student and New Evaluators / February 2, 2013

Hello, I am Gisele Tchamba, a PhD candidate in the Interdisciplinary PhD in Evaluation program (IDPE) at Western Michigan University. During the three years I spent in this program I came to understand that knowing the difference between evaluation and research matters. I found myself defining evaluation and explaining the difference to people in various …

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CPE Week: Linda Delaney on Empowerment Evaluation – Evaluative and Non-evaluative Feedback

Leave a Comment / Collaborative, Participatory and Empowerment Evaluation / June 7, 2012

My name is Linda Delaney and I am a Learning Coordinator for the City of Memphis Office of Talent Development. I have been a consultant in evaluation for over 10 years. I work with Dr. David Fetterman as an evaluator for the Minority Sub-recipient Grant Office in Arkansas – a State-wide tobacco prevention evaluation. In …

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Kylie Hutchinson on a Framework for Needs Assessment

Leave a Comment / Needs Assessment / May 1, 2012

My name is Kylie Hutchinson. I am an independent evaluation consultant and trainer with Community Solutions Planning and Evaluation. I have taught workshops on various evaluation topics for both the AEA and CES and Twitter weekly at @EvaluationMaven. Evaluators are often given the task of conducting needs assessments. Have you ever wondered how you can …

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Elizabeth Autio on Recruiting Teachers for Your Education Study

Leave a Comment / Prek-12 Educational Evaluation / March 27, 2012

My name is Elizabeth Autio and I am an associate at Education Northwest, a non-profit organization serving educators through research, evaluation, and technical assistance. This is a companion piece to my earlier post on Recruiting Participants for Your Study: Practical Strategies and Advice that more specifically details tips on recruiting teachers into your study.  I …

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