Need an efficient and cost effective way to process paper surveys and other forms? Please join Nora Petchkofski for a Remark Office OMR product demonstration to learn how Remark Office OMR can help you to collect responses, scan forms (surveys, questionnaires, tests), and produce analyses via a variety of customizable reports. Our colleagues at Gravic, the makers of Remark, have been exhibiting with AEA and processing the AEA conference evaluations for years and will demonstrate how they do it. Scanning is quick and easy, and you can use forms that you design yourself in any word processor. Slice and dice your analyses based on any variable within Remark Office OMR or migrate your data to SPSS, Excel and many other file formats. If you didn't have a chance to visit Remark's tables at Evaluation 2010, this is a chance to learn about their product.

Thursday, February 24, 2011, 2:00 - 2:20 PM EST

Join our SIOP colleagues as they share their knowledge and expertise on aea365. SIOP stands for the Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology. SIOP is a Division of the American Psychological Association and an Organizational Affiliate of the Association for Psychological Sciences. Subscribe to aea365 to learn more about the field of industrial and organizational psychology, its common ground with evaluation, and tools and resources of use both to SIOP and AEA members.  

The Collaborative, Participatory, and Empowerment TIG is sponsoring a three-webinar series. For three weeks in March, we'll offer one webinar each on Collaborative, Participatory, and Empowerment evaluation. Each webinar will define one of the three types of CPE evaluation, differentiate it from other types of evaluation, explain the underlying theory and how it translates into practice, include resources for learning more, and include time for questions at the end. The short series should be an excellent primer or refresher on CPE evaluation.   

Empowerment Evaluation with David Fetterman and Abraham Wandersman 
Register: Free for AEA members https://www1.gotomeeting.com/register/908070377 

Participatory Evaluation with Ann Zukoski and Mia Luluquisen 

March 10, 2011, 2:00 - 2:20 PM EST

Collaborative Evaluation with Rita O'Sullivan and Liliana Rodriguez-Campos

March 31, 2011, 2:00 - 2:20 PM EST

Begun in 2007, the Research on Evaluation TIG provides the research base to inform, enrich, extend, and improve evaluation practice. The week of March 6-11, you can read contributions on aea365 from colleagues studying the field and gain evidence-based tips for improving your work. We'll supplement their posts with items on this week's headlines and resources list.  

Francois Dumaine and Keiko Kuji-Shikatani are active members and leaders at the Canadian Evaluation Society. Keiko is an Education officer in the Student Achievement Division (Research, Monitoring, and Evaluation Team) of the Ontario Ministry of Education and is the first Vice President for Professional Designations Program at CES. Francois directs PRA Inc.'s Ottawa office and is the immediate Past President of CES. Keiko and Francois were instrumental in fostering CES's Professional Designations Program that builds on the CES Competencies for Canadian Evaluation Practice. The CES Credentialed Evaluator (CE) designation is designed to define, recognize and promote the practice of ethical, high quality and competent evaluation in Canada through a program for professional designations. It is a voluntary program that recognizes those with the education and experience to provide evaluation services, and through its maintenance and renewal requirements, promotes continuous learning within our evaluation community. Their combined expertise is formidable ranging from project management to evaluation capacity building to nonprofit management and even law! During their week on the Thought Leaders forum, tune in for discussion of issues ranging from the challenges of identifying evaluator competencies to the hoped for outcomes and considerations related to CES's evaluator credentialing initiative.  

The Minnesota Evaluation Association (MN EA) is a local affiliate of the American Evaluation Association serving evaluators throughout Minnesota. We'll be traveling to Minnesota for AEA's annual conference in 2012 and the week of March 13-18 is a great opportunity to get a sneak peek at tips, resources, and lessons learned from our Minnesota colleagues. They'll have posts each day on aea365.  

DEADLINE

Proposals Due for AEA's Annual Conference 

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Evaluation 2011 Conference Website 

The week of March 20-25, colleagues in the Collaborative, Participatory, and Empowerment TIG are sponsoring a week's worth of posts on aea365, providing items for the headlines and resources compilation. This month, they're offering a coffee-break webinar series as well with short introductions to Collaborative, Participatory, and Empowerment Evaluation.  

Evaluating policy change poses some particularly thorny challenges: attribution is very rarely clear and key contextual factors are usually beyond the advocates' control. The Advocacy Progress Planner (APP) is one of many tools emerging to help advocates - and evaluators - plan more systematically and identify objectives that will help assess progress, learn, and change strategy along the way. The Advocacy Planning and Evaluation Program at the Aspen Institute has now released version 2.0 of the APP, building on three years of user feedback. Aspen's David Devlin-Foltz will demonstrate the APP's features with help from Alexandra Toma, executive director of the Connect U.S. Fund and a longtime APP user. They'll show how the APP can help guide advocacy groups and their funders to clarify their theory of change - and prepare and track meaningful, measurable benchmarks for progress on a specific policy change objective.

Thursday, April 7, 2011, 2:00 - 2:20 PM EST