Event Evaluation

Innovative #Eval Week: Schwalbe, Miller, and Gensinger on #EvalAHA! What Can Twitter Tell Us about the AEA Conference?

Hi, we’re Anne Schwalbe, Keith Miller, and Michelle Gensinger, graduate students in the Evaluation Studies Program at the University of Minnesota. We chose Twitter as a platform for exploring creative evaluation methods at the AEA Annual Conference. These are the questions we hope to answer with our analysis: How was Twitter used during the conference? …

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Innovative #Eval Week: Anderson, Taylor, and Venegas Swanson on Visualizing the Conference Experience

Hi! Our names are Kirsten Anderson, Anika Taylor, and Tatyana Venegas Swanson. We are students from the University of Minnesota who were tasked with designing an innovative method of evaluating the AEA Conference. Originally we wanted to display the connections that formed between individuals over the course of the conference. However, due to time constraints …

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Innovative #Eval Week: Cakici, Pleasants, and Kankane on Three…Two…One…Action! Evaluators Under the Spotlight

Hello! We are Hanife Cakici, Christopher Pleasants, and Shipi Kankane from the Minnesota Evaluation Studies Institute (MESI) at the University of Minnesota. We were a part of the team of conference evaluators for Evaluation 2012 in Minneapolis. We asked conference participants to select a question from a menu, and videoed their responses to be shared …

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Innovative #Eval Week: Appelbaum, Edwards, Grewell, and Thompson on QuickTap for On-the-Spot Answers

Hello, this is Hannah Appelbaum, Brittany Edwards, Andy Grewell, and Jessamay Thompson. We are the team of graduate students that evaluated the Ignite talks (http://igniteshow.com/) at this year’s AEA conference. Because they were a new feature this year, we chose to evaluate these talks in order to assess their effectiveness for inclusion in future conferences. …

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