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Best of aea365 week: Michael Quinn Patton on Using Children’s Stories to Open up Evaluation Dialogues

Greetings colleagues. My moniker is Michael Quinn Patton and I do independent evaluation consulting under the name Utilization-Focused Evaluation, which just happens also to be the title of my main evaluation book, now in its 4th edition. I am a former AEA president. One of the challenges I’ve faced over the years, as many of us do, …

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MN EA Week: Mary Anne Casey on Making Presentations Stick

Mary Anne Casey here. I’m a Minnesota-based consultant who helps people plan and evaluate programs.  I’ve also done some writing and teaching on qualitative methods, particularly focus groups. Are you on the lookout for ways to make your presentations more memorable and meaningful? Rad Resource: Chip and Dan Heath’s book, Made to Stick, is jam-packed …

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Susan Eliot on Evaluation Stories

I’m  Susan Eliot, an independent qualitative research and evaluation consultant in Portland Oregon. As an applied researcher, I’m continuously searching for creative yet rigorous qualitative approaches that fit my clients’ budgets and capabilities. I recently employed a method called the evaluation story to elicit feedback from elementary and middle school students enrolled in an AmeriCorps …

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Sharon Smith-Halstead on Storytelling in Evaluation

My name is Sharon Smith-Halstead and I would like to share tools for storytelling for evaluators. Lesson Learned: There is an art to telling stories. Whether you are narrating the story of your grandmother’s journey to America, of your child’s first words, or of the way a program succeeded or failed, there is an art …

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Michael Quinn Patton on Using Children’s Stories to Open Up Evaluation Dialogues

Greetings colleagues. My moniker is Michael Quinn Patton and I do independent evaluation consulting under the name Utilization-Focused Evaluation, which just happens also to be the title of my main evaluation book, now in its 4th edition. I am a former AEA president. One of the challenges I’ve faced over the years, as many of …

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