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NPF TIG Week: Achieving unity: Building and using shared measures across funders and non-profits by Allison Meserve, Rochelle Zorzi & Liz Martin

Leave a Comment / Nonprofits and Foundations Evaluation / December 3, 2020 November 21, 2020

Hi! We are Allison Meserve (Prosper Canada), Rochelle Zorzi and Liz Martin (Cathexis Consulting). In this post, we highlight the process we used to co-develop shared indicators for six organizations involved in a national project and what we’ve learned along the way. We hope this will be useful for your own funder-non-profit relationships! When Prosper …

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Caryn Mohr on Connecting Primary Research to Community Indicators

Hello! I am Caryn Mohr, a Research Scientist at Wilder Research in St. Paul. I’m one of more than 40 researchers in the office who conduct primary research. My own work focuses on education programs addressing opportunity and achievement gaps. Our office also manages Minnesota Compass, a nationally recognized community indicators project. Opportunities to collaborate …

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EdEval Week: Jade Caines on Survey Design

4 Comments / Prek-12 Educational Evaluation / May 11, 2012 May 12, 2012

Hi, I’m Jade Caines. I have taught prekindergarten through college grades for over 10 years and have also worked on numerous evaluation studies in the southern, western, and eastern parts of the U.S. I recently received a Ph.D. in Educational Research, Measurement, and Evaluation. Currently, I am a postdoctoral research fellow at University of Pennsylvania, …

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EdEval Week: Krista Collins and Chad Green on Designing Evaluations with the Whole Child in Mind

1 Comment / Prek-12 Educational Evaluation / May 7, 2012 May 12, 2012

Hi! We are Krista Collins, Applied Developmental Psychology Doctoral Candidate at Claremont Graduate University, and Chad Green, Program Analyst at Loudoun County Public Schools. We are the future and past program co-chairs for the PreK-12 Educational Evaluation TIG. In an aea365 Cognitive Coaching post last year, we asked our colleagues to explore a maturing outcomes …

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MN EA Week: Craig Helmstetter on ‘Evaluating’ your community

2 Comments / Systems in Evaluation / March 14, 2012 February 23, 2012

Hello. I’m Craig Helmstetter, a Senior Research Manager at Wilder Research, a division of the Amherst Wilder Foundation in Saint Paul, Minnesota (right across the Mississippi from Minneapolis). Remember that quartet that was playing as the Titanic sank? How good were they? If your answer was “Who cares?!! The ship was sinking!!”, then you probably …

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Susan Kistler on the OECD Better Life Index

1 Comment / Data Visualization and Reporting, International and Cross-cultural Evaluation, Quantitative Methods: Theory and Design / June 25, 2011 June 21, 2011

My name is Susan Kistler. I am the Executive Director of the American Evaluation Association and author of aea365’s Saturday posts. Today, I wanted to call to your attention the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) Better Life Index (BLI). OECD launched the BLI in May, describing it as a “new, interactive index that …

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Susan Hahn and Guy Sharrock on How to Establish a Robust Project M&E System

Leave a Comment / International and Cross-cultural Evaluation / June 21, 2011 June 27, 2011

Hello! This post is by Susan Hahn and Guy Sharrock. Susan works as a Monitoring and Evaluation (M&E) consultant to Catholic Relief Services (CRS), a Baltimore-based international humanitarian assistance and development agency, with whom Guy is a Senior M&E Advisor. Evaluations are an important part of our project activities, but they must be linked with …

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