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A Call to Check out AEA’s Policy Advocacy Work by Sheila B. Robinson

Leave a Comment / Uncategorized / August 6, 2021

Hi! I’m Sheila B Robinson, aea365’s lead curator, and sometimes Saturday contributor. From time to time I write about various aspects of our association, events or learning opportunities AEA offers. To date however, I haven’t written about the policy advocacy that AEA engages in, and this is critically important work. Lesson Learned: According to our …

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The Health Impacts of Anti-Trans Legislation: Looking Back on NC House Bill 2 to Understand the Current Political Climate by Jen Gathings

1 Comment / Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgender Issues / May 28, 2021

Hi everyone! My name is Jen Gathings (she/her) and I’m a Senior Research Associate with ETR Services, LLC in Durham, North Carolina. In 2018, I had the honor of conducting a health impact assessment of NC’s HB2 and HB142 legislative actions, what came to known as NC’s “Bathroom Bills.” These bills attempted to regulate the …

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Labor Day Week: Working with Policymakers and the Legislative Decision-Making Process by Calista H. Smith

Leave a Comment / Government Evaluation / September 2, 2017

Happy Labor Day Week! I am Calista H. Smith, President of C H Smith & Associates, a project management consulting and evaluation firm in Ohio.  C H Smith & Associates has done multiple evaluation projects for the Ohio Department of Education and designed evaluations for other clients related to public policy. In this work, it …

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DUP Week: What’s in a Name? with June Gothberg and Caitlyn Bukaty

1 Comment / Disabilities and Underrepresented Populations, Government Evaluation / July 30, 2017

Greetings and welcome from the Disabilities and Underrepresented Populations TIG week.  We are June Gothberg, Chair and Caitlyn Bukaty, Program Chair.  This week we have a strong line up of great resources, tips, and lessons learned for engaging typically underrepresented population in evaluation efforts. You might have noticed that we changed our name from Disabilities …

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WE Week: Brian Yoder on Evaluators Visit Capitol Hill

1 Comment / Uncategorized / May 26, 2014

I’m Brian Yoder. I live in Washington, D.C., and I serve as president of the local AEA affiliate, the Washington Evaluators.  I’m writing about an initiative I spearheaded called Evaluators Visit Capitol Hill which took place during the AEA conference in Washington, D.C. last year. (Share Clip) EVCH is a collaboration between AEA’s Evaluation Policy …

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Maxine Gilling on Lessons Learned from a Study of How Politics Influence Evaluation Policy

Leave a Comment / Research on Evaluation, Teaching of Evaluation, Theories of Evaluation / August 15, 2012

Hello, I am Maxine Gilling, Research Associate for Gaining Early Awareness and Readiness for Undergraduate Programs (GEAR UP). I recently completed my dissertation entitled How Politics, Economics, and Technology Influence Evaluation Requirements for Federally Funded Projects: A Historical Study of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act from 1965 to 2005. In this study, I examined …

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DVR Week: Rakesh Mohan and Margaret Campbell on Making Evaluation Reports Reader Friendly

2 Comments / Data Visualization and Reporting, Government Evaluation / April 3, 2012

Greetings from Boise, the city of trees! We are Rakesh Mohan (director) and Margaret Campbell (administrative coordinator) of Idaho’s legislative Office of Performance Evaluations (OPE). Margaret reviews drafts of our reports from a nonevaluator’s perspective, as well as copyedits and desktop publishes each report. In this post, we share our thoughts on the importance of …

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APC Week: Anna Williams on When is a policy “win” real? Why does this matter when evaluating policy advocacy?

1 Comment / Advocacy and Policy Change, Environmental Program Evaluation, Nonprofits and Foundations Evaluation / April 3, 2012

Hi. I’m Anna Williams, Senior Associate at Ross & Associates Environmental Consulting, in Seattle, Washington. Advocates, their funders, and policy advocacy evaluators seek to understand the results of policy advocacy work. Advocates promote the adoption (or reversal) of government policies, and many use the term “wins” to refer to successful milestones in their advocacy work. …

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Ioana Munteanu on Smithsonian Institution’s Office of Policy and Analysis

1 Comment / Arts, Culture, and Museums, Qualitative Methods, Quantitative Methods: Theory and Design / January 25, 2012

Hello everyone. My name is Ioana Munteanu, and I am a Social Science Analyst with the Smithsonian Institution’s Office of Policy and Analysis. The Smithsonian consists of 19 Museums and the National Zoo; 9 Research Centers; and many other centers, programs and projects. Central to the Office of Policy and Analysis mission is to assist …

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GOVT Week: Rakesh Mohan on Celebrating Excellence in Legislative Evaluation

Leave a Comment / Government Evaluation / October 1, 2010

Namaste! I am Rakesh Mohan, Director of Idaho State Legislature’s Office of Performance Evaluations. I currently serve on the AEA Board and am a former executive committee member of the National Legislative Program Evaluation Society (NLPES). I hope this post will inform you of some good evaluation resources at the state government level. This past …

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