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Comment on AKEN Week: Amelia Ruerup on Understanding Indigenous Evaluation in an Alaskan Context by Susan G. Price

Susan G. Price — Fri, 17 May 2013 11:08:24 +0000

The information given is very thought provoking. From living in an Alaskan village, I completely accept and agree with her experience and research. I look forward to learning more about and seeing the results of, this system of approach!

Comment on Gisele Tchamba on Learning the Difference between Evaluation and Research by AKEN Week: Vanessa Hiratsuka on Continuous Quality Improvement, Quality Assurance, Evaluation, and Research: Where does my project fit? · AEA365

Fri, 17 May 2013 08:16:39 +0000

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Comment on APC Week: Colleen Duggan and Kenneth Bush on Evaluation in Settings Affected by Violent Conflict: What Difference Does Context Make? by Erica Heath

Erica Heath — Tue, 14 May 2013 15:40:24 +0000

Thank you, Colleen and Kenneth, for differentiating ethics and politics. True ethical problem are, I find, much rarer than political problems.
Erica

Comment on Ed Eval Week: Shelly Engelman and Brandi Campbell on The Advantages of Using Retrospective Surveys by Nicky

Nicky — Mon, 13 May 2013 14:18:55 +0000

This is very timely as I have been wondering whether to continue and how to improve retrospective questions in a survey for youth participants in an Out-of-school-time program.

Do you think we should consider something like an ‘expiration date’ or ‘half-life’ for people’s memories when writing retrospective questions? If so, do you have any tips for clearly phrasing the instructions?

For example, one of our questions was “Think back to what you were like before you started this program. … ‘Before I started this program, most of the time I enjoyed math’ … agree a lot / agree a little / etc”

My concern is that some youth might have joined the program a month ago, while some might have attended the same program for many years. Does that undermine the findings? Should the instructions be more specific, for example “Think back to what you were like at this time last year”?

Thanks for your thoughts!

Comment on Susan Kistler on the AEA/BetterEvaluation Webinar Series and Making the Most of YouTube by Patricia Rogers

Patricia Rogers — Sun, 12 May 2013 11:58:50 +0000

Thank you to AEA for supporting this webinar series and for working to make it more widely accessible.

We’re following up each webinar with a post in our series ’52 weeks of BetterEvaluation’ and will feature one a week for the next 8 weeks. In these posts we discuss key issues and answer some of the questions asked in the webinar (we will progressively answer the others through FAQ on the site)

You can read the first one, by Irene Guijt, on using the rainbow framework to plan, conduct and manage an evaluation at http://betterevaluation.org/blog/using_the_rainbow_framework and you can find the others as they become available at http://betterevaluation.org/52_weeks_2013

Comment on Susan Kistler on BetterEvaluation and Eight Free Training Webinars by Susan Kistler on the AEA/BetterEvaluation Webinar Series and Making the Most of YouTube · AEA365

Sat, 11 May 2013 22:33:01 +0000

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Comment on Ed Eval Week: Silvana Bialosiewicz on Tips for Collecting Valid and Reliable Data from Children by Silvana Bialosiewicz

Silvana Bialosiewicz — Sat, 11 May 2013 17:42:45 +0000

Hi Judy,
Most of the evaluation work that our team does with children is in after-school programs. Each evaluation is reviewed by our school’s IRB board before we launch.
The parents of our participants sign a consent form when they enter the program and the students who participate in our focus groups sign an additional assent form. We have found it helpful to include these forms in the enrollment package when students join the program.
If you’d like more details on this process, please feel free to get in touch!

Comment on Ed Eval Week: Silvana Bialosiewicz on Tips for Collecting Valid and Reliable Data from Children by Judy Savageau

Judy Savageau — Fri, 10 May 2013 13:26:47 +0000

I’m curious about your approach to including children directly in your evaluation project vis-a-vis informed consent and the IRB process. It seems like there’s another blog that could be written extending your methodologic ideas to including children which still necessitates the inclusion of adults/parents in terms of consenting subjects when an IRB is needed for the project.

Comment on Sarah Rand on Using Visual.ly’s Marketplace Service for Infographics by Mahogany

Mahogany — Thu, 09 May 2013 09:16:02 +0000

Thanks for writing about your experience Sarah. I’m on the marketing team of a fashion brand and we’re interested in using data visualization too (here and there). It was great hearing about the process, your lessons learned, and seeing the end results of the collaboration .

Comment on Susan Menkes on Constructing Developmentally Sensitive Questions by Ed Eval Week: Silvana Bialosiewicz on Tips for Collecting Valid and Reliable Data from Children · AEA365

Thu, 09 May 2013 08:16:08 +0000

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