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LAWG Week: Ann Emery on Conference Tips for Novice Evaluators · AEA365 · January 16, 2016 at 10:32 am
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The Conference is Over, Now What? Professional Development for Novice Evaluators - Emery Evaluation · December 16, 2015 at 11:40 pm
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Fran Hoffman · September 6, 2014 at 10:46 pm
Hi. My name is Fran Hoffman. I’m a Counseling Psychology graduate student at Texas A&M University – Central Texas and am have just begun program evaluation as both a class and as my grad assistant job. I need to learn quickly, so reading the tips from those who have gone before me is very valuable.
I just read the post talking about the importance of stakeholder engagement by Alice Walters. She mentioned three tips that build on those discussed by our fearless leader recently. She stressed the need to include stakeholders in every step of the evaluation process. That makes sense. They are our customers, and if they aren’t happy, they won’t return to us for further evaluations. She also mentioned the importance of frequent and ongoing communication with stakeholders. We have each been assigned to a project and will have the primary responsibility for communicating with them regularly. Regular communication goes a long way in terms of minimizing misunderstandings and staying on the same page. Her final tip was to consider the stakeholder’s views at every stage of the evaluation process – that views aren’t static. I’m glad I read that. I was, in fact, thinking of the stakeholder’s views as carved in stone, but I now see that this evaluation and the process involved will be more like a living organism that requires constant back and forth.
These were very useful insights to start with and I look forward to learning a great deal more from the evaluation community. Thank you for sharing your experiences with the novices!
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Auður Ævarsdóttir · January 28, 2014 at 10:59 am
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Sheila B. Robinson on Joining the aea365 Author Community · AEA365 · September 28, 2013 at 8:07 am
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LAWG Week: David J. Bernstein and Valerie Caracelli on the Local Arrangements Activities for Evaluation 2013 · AEA365 · September 27, 2013 at 3:32 am
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LAWG Week: Bernadette Wright and Ladel Lewis on “Delivering the Goods” · AEA365 · September 25, 2013 at 3:13 am
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Bloggers Series: Susan Kistler on Writing Weekly for aea365 - AEA365 · December 24, 2011 at 3:56 am
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David McDonald · January 14, 2010 at 7:27 pm
Thanks Susan. Since it is the American Eval Assoc, and most members are from the USA and would know the term, and contributors are briefed on what goes in which sections, I don’t see any need to change it. Not too informal or radical to me!
Though it is an odd use of the English language to define ‘radical’ as not meaning radical but something else entirely! Here in Australia something similar has happened with ‘awesome’, with the term being used colloquially to mean something like ‘excellent’.
Cheers – David
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Admin comment by Susan Kistler · January 13, 2010 at 7:35 pm
US slang – in a positive sense – short for radical.
I looked it up and found the following at onlineslangdictionary.com/definition+of/rad
Rad: “cool neat nice good ect. Origin: From the word radical.”
Rad: “Very good, excellent, great. Short form for the word radical.”
Perhaps too informal here?
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David McDonald · January 13, 2010 at 6:40 pm
Hi, I’m finding these very interesting and appreciate the overnight Twitter alerts. One thing, though: what, pray, is meant by the term ‘Rad resource’? I know what a resource is but what is ‘rad’?
Thanks – David
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