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CMM TIG Week: Using Literature Review in Cluster Evaluation by Mika Yoder Yamashita

My name is Mika Yoder Yamashita. I am the qualitative evaluation lead for the Center for Educational Policy and Practice at Academy for Educational Development. Our Center has been conducting process and outcome evaluations of the federally funded program, Gaining Early Awareness and Readiness for Undergraduate Programs (GEAR UP).  This program aims at increasing college access among disadvantaged students.  As we are evaluating programs implemented in several sites, we are beginning to explore the possibility of conducting a multi-site evaluation. Today I will share my Center’s thoughts on how we can effectively approach conducting a multi-site evaluation that uses qualitative data to understand the process of program implementation. Then I will share how we use the literature to guide our data collection and analysis.

Best of aea365 week: Derrick Gervin on Tips for New Evaluators

My name is Derrick Gervin and I currently work as a Lead Evaluator at The Evaluation Group (TEG) in Atlanta, Georgia. I work with school systems and nonprofit organizations to improve student achievement. After completing my first six months as a full-time evaluator, I would like to share some tips with other newcomers to evaluation. Hot Tips: …

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APC Week: Gabrielle Watson on Internal Utilization of External Evaluations

Greetings! I’m Gabrielle Watson, and I work at Oxfam America, a global humanitarian and development organization working to end social injustice around the world. As the Manager for Campaign Evaluation, I work with policy advocacy teams to assess their campaigns and facilitate learning. We periodically commission external evaluations. They are a big time and resource …

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Shortcut Week: John Paul Manning on RescueTime for Time Tracking

My name is John Paul Manning and I’m an independent data analyst, which means I spend a lot of time working on my computer and it also means that I’m always struggling with fair billing. I’m contributing a favorite tool to shortcuts week because for me it has been a faster, easier, way to do …

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John Colon on Nine Tech Tools That Make Life Easier

My name is John Colon and I work for Better Questions Better Answers. I’m amazed by what is available, for free, for my computer. Here are some of my favorite, can’t live without, better than sliced bread tools. Rad Resources: I’d like to share 9 tools that make my life easier. 10: Gantzilla: Free version …

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Susan Kistler on Daily Tips for Evaluators

My name is Susan Kistler and I am the Executive Director of the American Evaluation Association. I contribute each Saturday’s post to aea365 – the Tip-a-Day Alerts by and for evaluators. While aea365 of course offers my very favorite tip each day, I confess that my attention is sometimes drawn to these other Daily Tips …

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CAP Week: Mika Yoder Yamashita on Using Literature Review in Cluster Evaluation

My name is Mika Yoder Yamashita. I am the qualitative evaluation lead for the Center for Educational Policy and Practice at Academy for Educational Development. Our Center has been conducting process and outcome evaluations of the federally funded program, Gaining Early Awareness and Readiness for Undergraduate Programs (GEAR UP).  This program aims at increasing college …

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Susan Kistler on Scheduling Software

I’m Susan Kistler, AEA’s Executive Director, and the author of each Saturday’s aea365 Tip. One challenge we have in the AEA office, that is echoed across those working with groups in almost any context,  is scheduling meetings (or scheduling focus groups or scheduling planning sessions, etc). Challenges include: (1) when we did this by hand …

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Susan Kistler on Local Affiliates and Managing Professional Obligations

My name is Susan Kistler and I contribute each Saturday’s post to the aea365 blog. This past week, I had the pleasure of attending the annual conference of the Eastern Evaluation Research Society (EERS), an AEA Local Affiliate. At the opening session, George Grob lead a discussion that ultimately focused heavily on tactics evaluators are …

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