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PE Standards Week: Lessons Learned from Developing Program Theory, Applying Culturally Responsive Evaluation, and Integrating Program Evaluation Standards by Rodney Hopson & Aneta Cram

We are Rodney Hopson, former (2012) AEA President and Professor of Evaluation (Educational Psychology: QUERIES) at the University of Illinois-Urbana Champaign, and Aneta Cram, Ph.D. student at Victoria University of Wellington in New Zealand and AEA Program Chair for the Indigenous Peoples in Evaluation Topical Interest Group. In a recently published article for Evaluation Matters …

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Seven-Step Approach to the Integrated Planning of Performance Measurement Step 3 by Michel Laurendeau

Hello, my name is Michel Laurendeau, and I am a consultant wishing to share over 40 years of experience in policy development, performance measurement and evaluation of public programs. This is the third of seven (7) consecutive AEA365 posts discussing a stepwise approach to integrating performance measurement and evaluation strategies in order to more effectively …

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Seven-Step Approach to the Integrated Planning of Performance Measurement by Step 2 by Michel Laurendeau

Hello, my name is Michel Laurendeau, and I am a consultant wishing to share over 40 years of experience in policy development, performance measurement and evaluation of public programs. This is the second of seven (7) consecutive AEA365 posts discussing a stepwise approach to integrating performance measurement and evaluation strategies in order to more effectively …

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EEE Week: Mary Arnold on Program Theory: The Fuel for Logic Models

Hi! I’m Mary Arnold, a professor and 4-H youth development specialist at Oregon State University, where I spend the majority of my time in the area of program evaluation, especially in capacity building efforts. This is my second time preparing a blog post for the EEE-TIG, and the invitation came at a great time, because …

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Dawn Henderson on Developing a Program Theory to Guide your Evaluation Plan

I am Dawn Henderson, an Assistant Professor at Winston-Salem State University and former AEA GEDI (Graduate Education Diversity Initiative) intern. My experience as a GEDI afforded the opportunity to increase my knowledge in thinking about a program’s theory in evaluation. I used this in designing research and work with a school-based intervention. I want to …

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PD Presenters Week: Apollo M Nkwake on Working with assumptions in program evaluation

I’m Apollo M Nkwake, a Research Associate Professor at Tulane University’s Disaster Resilience and Leadership Academy. I design monitoring and evaluation plans, conduct program evaluations and facilitate a graduate course in quantitative analysis of disaster resilience. Lessons learned: An elaborate design that explicates assumptions on which programs are premised, is essential for viable program evaluation. In …

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