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Contribution Guidelines

We’re very excited to learn from you!  If you work or study in the evaluation field, have Hot Tips, Cool Tricks, Rad Resources or Lessons Learned of interest to evaluators, and would like to contribute to aea365, please consider submitting a draft contribution. Posts should:

  • Be written in first-person prose.
  • Be short – approximately 250-400 words and absolutely no more than 450.
  • Focus on topics that will be of interest to a range of evaluators, not just on the work that you are doing.
  • At the very beginning, include a 1-3 sentence introduction to you and the general theme of your Hot Tips, Cool Tricks, Rad Resources, or Lessons Learned (but, you don’t have a lot of space and this isn’t all about you – keep it short and focused)
  • For each Hot Tip, Cool Trick, Rad Resource or Lesson Learned, include a header (Hot Tip, Cool Trick Rad Resource, or Lesson Learned) and then a description and how it’s useful.
  • Include an active weblink to the Hot Tip, Cool Trick, Rad Resource or Lesson Learned (where appropriate).
  • Avoid self-promotion.
  • Avoid jargon and acronyms, spelling out items the first time that they appear.
  • Include a relevant image (chart, photo, data visualization, illustration) for which you have use permission, as appropriate (an image makes the post pinnable on Pinterest and often adds explanatory value and/or visual appeal).
  • Do NOT use APA or other citation style meant for hardcopy documents; rather embed links to online resources directly within the narrative and for resources that are offline, and use prose to describe such as “I found Smith and Jones’ recent article on Making Amazing Stuff More Amazing in the Fall 2010 issue of the Journal of Great Thoughts to be useful in laying out a step-by-step plan.”

To get a feel for the breadth and style of contributions, take a look at the archives via the archive link at the top of this page.

Send your draft post (on a document attached to an email please!) for consideration to aea365@eval.org. Please note that we reserve the right to refuse submissions and to edit submissions for length and alignment with the style of aea365 – you’ll always have the opportunity to review and approve any significant edits.

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  • LAWG Week: Ann Emery on Conference Tips for Novice Evaluators · AEA365 · January 16, 2016 at 10:32 am

    […] so that we may enrich our community of practice. Would you like to contribute to aea365? Review the contribution guidelines and send your draft post to […]

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  • The Conference is Over, Now What? Professional Development for Novice Evaluators - Emery Evaluation · December 16, 2015 at 11:40 pm

    […] You should seriously write for aea365, probably 2-3 times a year, even if you’re new to the field. Just make sure you follow the contribution guidelines. […]

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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

    I would like to get email everyday to learn more about evaluation.

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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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