training

Measuring and Evaluating the Impact of Learning Interventions in Organizations by Stephen J. Gill

Organizations (business, non-profits, and government) are paying more attention to the impact of employee training and learning programs. They recognize that in this Knowledge Economy, learning and change must be a core competency. I’m Stephen J. Gill and I have been evaluating the impact of learning interventions in organizations for the past 35 years. Recently, …

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CLEAR Week: Ningqin Wu and Amy Chen on Using instant messaging services such as WeChat to connect stakeholders across country and language boundaries

We’re Ningqin Wu and Amy Chen, both coordinators at AFDI – the Asia-Pacific Finance and Development Institute (AFDI) in Shanghai, China. AFDI is a member of the CLEAR Initiative (Centers for Learning on Evaluation and Results) and hosts the East Asia CLEAR Center. CLEAR promotes evaluation capacity building in regional centers across the globe. This week’s blogs are by CLEAR members. …

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Leah Goldstein Moses on Tips for Facilitating Active Participant Engagement

I’m Leah Goldstein Moses, Founder and CEO of The Improve Group and adjunct professor at the University of Minnesota’s Humphrey School of Public Affairs. The Improve Group’s evaluation practice embeds capacity building – building the skills, systems and tools needed for organizations to conduct evaluations. In the last few years, we teach more and more …

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Awab on How to Gauge Learning of a Training

My name is Awab and I am working as Monitoring & Evaluation Specialist with the Higher Education Commission (HEC), Islamabad. To gauge the learning of a training is always a challenge. Recently, we faced this challenge when the HEC conducted the training of about 1600 top managers of Pakistani universities. The trainings were conducted through …

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CLEAR Week: Urmy Shukla on Next steps in M&E capacity building: What happens after the training is over?

I’m Urmy Shukla, Capacity Building Manager at the CLEAR South Asia Regional Center, hosted by J-PAL South Asia at the Institute for Financial Management and Research. Since our 2011 start with CLEAR we’ve developed a wide-range of activities aimed at improving monitoring and evaluation (M&E) capacity throughout the region, including 90 trainings for partners such …

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CLEAR Week: Boubacar Aw on Evaluation Capacity Building in Francophone Africa: Development of teaching materials through training of trainers (TOT)

I am Boubacar Aw, Coordinator of the Regional Centers for Learning on Evaluation and Results (CLEAR) for Francophone Africa hosted at Centre Africain d’Etudes Superieures en Gestion (CESAG) in Senegal, Dakar. I am writing today to offer practical tips on how to develop teaching materials through a Training of Trainers (ToT) model. These tips are …

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BLP TIG Week: Michelle Paul Heelan on Gathering Data To Demonstrate the Impact of Training

My name is Michelle Paul Heelan, Ph.D., an evaluation specialist and organizational behavior consultant with ICF International.  In my fifteen years assisting private corporations and public agencies to track indicators of organizational health, I’ve found that moving towards more sophisticated levels of training evaluation is challenging – but here at ICF we’ve identified effective strategies …

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EEE Week: Mary Arnold on Building Capacity

Hi! I’m Mary Arnold, a program evaluator with the Extension 4-H Youth Development program at Oregon State University. This AEA 365 entry kicks off a week of postings by members of the Extension Education Evaluation TIG, which is starting its 32nd year! Extension is the outreach arm of the public Land-Grant universities and its mission …

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OL-ECB Week: Laura Keene on Activities for Evaluation Training

Hello! My name is Laura Keene, owner of Keene Insights, a one-woman consulting shop based in sunny Los Angeles, California. Over the past nine years, I’ve worked as both an internal and an external evaluator in a variety of settings. For many organizations, especially smaller nonprofits, working with me is their first introduction to evaluation. …

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Stephanie Evergreen on the Potent Presentations Initiative Website

Hey there. I’m Stephanie Evergreen, AEA’s eLearning Initiatives Director and general data communications geek. Susan Kistler has a family obligation this weekend, so I’m stepping in to share with you the newest developments in AEA’s Potent Presentations Initiative (p2i). You’ve heard about p2i, right? It is a new initiative to help AEA members improve their …

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