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SEA Week: Jennifer Johnson and Melanie Meyer on Using Mentoring and Training Programs to Develop Knowledge and Skills

Leave a Comment / Uncategorized / August 27, 2014 August 24, 2014

We are Jennifer Johnson and Melanie Meyer, and we are evaluators at the Florida Legislature’s Office of Program Policy Analysis and Government Accountability. Jennifer has served as Past President and currently serves as Secretary for the Southeast Evaluation Association (SEA), and Melanie holds a Master’s degree in Adult and Continuing Education and is a member of SEA. The purpose of continued professional …

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DOVP Week: Nivedita Ranade and Tom McKlin on The Importance of Nurturing in Mentoring Students with Disabilities (SwD)

1 Comment / Disabilities and Underrepresented Populations / August 21, 2013 August 21, 2013

Hi! This is Nivedita Ranade and Tom McKlin with The Findings Group. We are evaluating two federal-level grants that provide mentoring to students with disabilities. These mentoring relationships are critical to program success because the students see the mentor as their primary source of support. The program administrators qualified these relationships as “nurturing” because the …

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Chelsea Heaven on Why Graduate Students Interested in Evaluation Should Consider Volunteering

Greetings, I am Chelsea Heaven, a recently graduated master’s level biostatistics and public health student. As with many of my fellow recent graduates, I am always on the lookout for as many opportunities as possible to kick-start my young career in statistics and evaluation. A colleague of mine who I work with at my campus’ …

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Norma Martinez-Rubin on Mentorship and Involvement in AEA

2 Comments / Graduate Student and New Evaluators / June 13, 2010 June 17, 2010

My name is Norma Martinez-Rubin and I am an independent program evaluator, occasional trainer, and public health practitioner. Having chosen program evaluation as a second-career focus (www.EvaluationFocused.com) the necessity to ramp up, jump in, and practice the art and science of evaluation as best possible led me to revisit a career strategy to which I …

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Tamara Bertrand Jones on Finding and Working With a Mentor

Leave a Comment / Graduate Student and New Evaluators, Multiethnic Issues in Evaluation / June 4, 2010 June 2, 2010

I’m Tamara Bertrand Jones and I evaluate programs and services in Student Affairs at Florida State University. I’ve always been intrigued by the ways that different people develop the skills they need in order to be successful in their chosen profession. Fundamental to the success of budding evaluators is the important interaction with successful evaluation …

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