Evaluative Thinking in Evaluation, Organizations and Society with Thomas Archibald

Evaluative Thinking with Thomas Archibald

Thomas Archibald, Ph.D. is an Associate Professor and Extension Specialist in the Department of Agricultural, Leadership, and Community Education at Virginia Tech. His practice and research are focused primarily on program evaluation and evaluation capacity building. He serves as the Chief of Party/Director of the Feed the Future Senegal Youth in Agriculture project, funded by

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Evaluation's Role in Guiding Public Policy and Government with Rakesh Mohan

Evaluation’s Role in Guiding Public Policy and Government with Rakesh Mohan

Rakesh Mohan has been the director of the Office of Performance Evaluations (OPE) an independent and nonpartisan agency of the Idaho State Legislature, since 2002. We cover important issues related to evaluation and how evaluation can guiding government and public policy.       Under Rakesh’s direction, the office has received many awards, including the

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Ann K. Emery - Ending Dusty Shelf Reports

Ending Dusty Shelf Reports with Ann K. Emery

Ann K. Emery at Depict Data Studio helps people and organizations visualize data more effectively. This interview covers key evaluation and research reporting strategies, techniques, and resources. Ann is well-known in the evaluation world and beyond. She has been invited to speak in more than 30 states and 10 countries, more than 3,200 people have

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Kylie Hutchinson Learning from Evaluation Mistakes episode on EvalNetwork Podcast

Learning from Evaluation Mistakes with Kylie Hutchinson

Kylie is the 2020 recipient of the Canadian Evaluation Society’s Award for Contribution to Evaluation in Canada. She has spent the past thirty years working in the not-for-profit sector as a consultant, trainer, program manager, board member, and volunteer.  There are many valuable nuggets from this video. We discuss the following during the interview: –

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Holly Rustick Grant Writing Lessons Learned

Holly Rustick on Grant Writing Lessons Learned

James Pann, Ph.D., interviews Holly Rustick to get her insights into the grant writing and management from her years of experience doing this work, her work training others to do it, and her podcast interviews. We discuss:  – Common themes or lessons she has learned from the 120+ podcast episodes completed – Suggested first steps

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Insights Into Program Design and Management EvalNetwork Podcast with Larry Martin

Larry Martin, Ph.D. on Designing, Managing and Evaluating Programs

James Pann, Ph.D. interviews with Larry Martin, Ph.D. who is co-author of Designing & Managing Programs: An Effectiveness-Based Approach and a  professor at the University of Central Florida about program design and evaluation. OUTLINE: 00:00 – Introduction 00:22 – Background and Larry’s interest in program design and management 03:13 – Reasoning behind publishing the book

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