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Professional Development

Summer Evaluation Institute is now the Summer Learning Series by Sheila B. Robinson

Leave a Comment / Uncategorized / April 29, 2021

Greetings! I’m Sheila B Robinson, AEA365 Lead Curator and sometimes Saturday contributor with exciting news about the Summer Learning Series. Anyone who knows me knows that I am passionate about professional learning and love to see opportunities to learn from esteemed colleagues. As many of you know, AEA has held a Summer Evaluation Institute in …

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IEA Affiliate Week: Pivoting to Online Training by Claire Thoma Emmons and Susan Foutz

3 Comments / Uncategorized / October 10, 2020

Hi! We are Claire Thoma Emmons and Susan Foutz from the Research & Evaluation Department at The Children’s Museum of Indianapolis, the largest children’s museum in the world. When the COVID-19 pandemic closed the museum for three months, we had to transition to virtual everything—including onboarding and training new staff and interns. The Children’s Museum …

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Oregon Evaluators Week: Advancing a Responsive Evaluation Learning Community by Chris Cartwright & Karyl Askew

Leave a Comment / Uncategorized / September 19, 2020

Hi, I am Chris Cartwright, an independent consultant specializing in assessing intercultural competence and global inclusive leadership. And I am Karyl Askew, an independent program evaluation consultant specializing in culturally responsive and equitable evaluation. We are members of the Oregon Program Evaluators Network (OPEN), a local AEA affiliate. Along with Kari Greene, Sam Mehoke, and …

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Oregon Evaluators Week: Pivoting Professional Development: An Online Journal Club for Building Skills and Staying Connected by Adrienne Zell

Leave a Comment / Uncategorized / September 19, 2020

I’m Adrienne Zell, a long-time AEA member and evaluator. My home base is an academic institution, Oregon Health and Science University (OHSU), where I wear many hats. One of my roles is Director of the OHSU Evaluation Core. In this role, I lead a small team of evaluators who work on health-related evaluation projects. I …

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Oregon Evaluators Week: Targeting your Professional Development by Kendra Lodewick

Leave a Comment / Uncategorized / September 19, 2020

My name is Kendra Lodewick, and I’m owner and principal of Program and Policy Insight (PPI), a federally and state-certified woman-owned small business based in Portland that provides evaluation, applied research, technical assistance and capacity building services to community organizations, program funders, and government agencies.   Rad Resource. As a small business, I am often searching …

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IC TIG Week: Leveraging my Independence to Transform My Skills and the Quality of my Work by Susan Wolfe

Leave a Comment / Independent Consulting / June 25, 2020

Hi, my name is Susan Wolfe and I am the CEO of Susan Wolfe and Associates, LLC. My company provides evaluation, needs assessment, training, and coalition development focused mostly on health and education equity. One of the benefits of working independently is that I have control over my professional development. If I see something that …

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SEA Affiliate Week: Prioritizing and Planning Your Personal Professional Development by Sheena Horton

Leave a Comment / Uncategorized / January 1, 2019

Hi evaluators! This is Sheena Horton, Past President for the Southeast Evaluation Association (SEA). I’m going to kick off SEA’s annual AEA365 Professional Development Week by providing you with a few tips for developing an effective professional development plan that aligns with your vision, passion, and career goals. Hot Tips: Brainstorm a list of your …

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Starting at the End: Measuring Learning Using Retrospective Pre-Post Evaluations by Debi Lang and Judy Savageau

9 Comments / Uncategorized / July 30, 2017

Hello! We are Debi Lang and Judy Savageau from the Center for Health Policy and Research at UMass Medical School. Earlier this year, Debi published a post on how program-specific learning objectives can help measure student learning to demonstrate program impact. Today’s post shows how to measure whether training or professional development programs are meeting …

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Professional Development Evaluation: Assess Participant and Organizational Readiness by Tim Sheldon and Jane Fields

1 Comment / Uncategorized / May 6, 2017

Hi, we are Tim Sheldon and Jane Fields, Research Associates at the Center for Applied Research and Educational Improvement (CAREI) at the University of Minnesota. We serve as external evaluators for EngrTEAMS, a five-year, $8 million project funded by the National Science Foundation. The project is a partnership involving the University of Minnesota’s Science, Technology, …

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SEA Professional Development Week: Maintaining Your Professional Growth by Sheena Horton

Leave a Comment / Uncategorized / January 14, 2017

Hi! This is Sheena Horton again, President-Elect and Board Member for the Southeast Evaluation Association (SEA). I wanted to close out SEA’s AEA365 week by providing you with a few tips for stimulating and maintaining your professional growth. In a similar vein of thought as evaluation being an everyday activity, our own professional growth should be approached as an …

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