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#AZENET20: Let’s Talk About Soft Skills

Jul 11, 2019

I’m very excited to announce that I was recently elected as the 2020-2021 President of the Arizona Evaluation Network. As someone who has been involved in the American Evaluation Association since the beginning of graduate school, finding a local affiliate was one way to stay connected to our field throughout the year. The opportunity to … more »

Reflections from #AZENet19

Jun 5, 2019

A few weeks after the 2019 Annual Arizona Evaluation Network Conference, I felt inclined to reflect on my experience. This year’s theme, Refocusing on the Fundamentals, served as a call to get back to the roots of evaluation practice. This year’s conference really reminded me that we should never become too complacent with our skills … more »

Overlapping Column Charts: A Quick Actual v. Goal Comparison

Apr 17, 2019

Hello there! I’m writing you as a follow up to a workshop I recently facilitated with Nicole Huggett, MSW, for the Arizona Evaluation Network in Phoenix. A big focus of our time together was spent on covering visualization options for comparing goals and pre-post results. One of the popular charts we discussed were overlapping column … more »

Research on Evaluation: It Takes a Village (The Solution)

Apr 9, 2018

Our first post lamented the poor response rates in research on evaluation. There are many reasons for these poor response rates, but there are also many things that we can do to improve response rates and subsequently improve the state of research on evaluation. How can evaluators improve response rates? Coryn et. al (2016) suggests … more »