With Katrina Bledsoe, Blanca Guillen-Woods, and Felisa Gonzales

How can evaluators help build a more equitable future? In this webinar, presenters from SLP4i will demonstrate how evaluators can use the Eval Matrix^TM to attend to issues of power, and draw ideas for developing more equitable and inclusive evaluation designs that contribute to social change.

September 27th 12-1pm EST  

Over the summer, MSME student Yasemin Simsek traveled to Kenya to conduct research for her Quantitative Methods course practicum. She partnered with the Neema Project, a nonprofit organization dedicated to empowering women experiencing poverty, gender-based violence, or teen pregnancy in Kitale, Kenya through services such as skills training, counseling, and faith-based support. Reflecting on her experiences in Kenya, Yasemin urges her program colleagues to ask culturally appropriate questions in their surveys; engage project collaborators throughout the research process; and participate in intentional reflexive exercises throughout their work. 

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Yasemin Simsek

Current MSME Student

The Measurement & Evaluation Program has partnered with the Mongolian Evaluation Association (MEA) to foster cooperation that supports both parties. As part of the agreement, MEA representatives provide AU students and alumni evaluation and research opportunities; and in turn, AU alumni lead webinars for MEA representatives. This year, MSME student Maggie Emge volunteered with an organization in Mongolia to do research on the mining sector for her Qualitative Methods course practicum. In commemoration of Youth in Evaluation week, AU alumni Susan Cottrell, Dennis Hood, Nada Mousa, Tiffany Smith, and Seth Tucker led EvalYouth Mongolia webinars on several topics in evaluation. 

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Jess Littman

Master of Science in M&E 

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Odile Drice David Doreus

Certificate in PME

Jess Littman and Odile Drice David Doreus discussed the integration of participatory methods into existing evaluations with multiple project collaborators in their webinar Participatory Evaluations. The webinar was moderated by current MSME students Gabriella Huff and Miguel Teixeira. 

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Zachariah Barghouti

Master of Science in M&E

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Nada Mousa

Master of Science in M&E

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Jeremy Starr

Current MSME Student

Zachariah Barghouti, Nada Mousa, and Jeremy Starr spoke on how they have used participatory tools such as the bridge model and seasonal calendars in their webinar Use Participatory Tools in Evaluation Research. The webinar was moderated by current MSME students Sarah Hennessy and Dori Stone. 

Sue Cottrell shared her experiences creating logic models, providing a step by step approach that was engaging and easy to follow in her webinar Craft Logic Models. The webinar was moderated by current MSME students Isabel Creasman and Yasemin Simsek and MSME alum Emily LoPiccolo. 

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Susan Cottrell

Certificate in PME

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Dennis Hood

Master of Science M&E

Dennis Hood demonstrated how he uses Microsoft Excel to create data visuals, explaining when he uses what types of visuals to communicate data in his webinar Use Excel for Data Visuals. The webinar was moderated by current MSME students Michelle Flores, Shelli Golson-Mickens, and Anna Poole.

Seth Tucker demonstrated how to use Microsoft Word and Excel to define, organize, and analyze qualitative data in a way that is practical, efficient, rigorous, and fun in his webinar Use Word & Excel to Analyze Qualitative Data. The webinar was moderated by current MSME student Shelli Golson-Mickens. 

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Seth Tucker

Certificate in PME

MSME students David Anderson, Sarah Hennessy, Anna Poole, and Yasemin Simsek placed in the top 5 teams in the American Evaluation Association’s 2023 Case Competition. Shelli Golson-Mickens and Beverly Peters served as the team's coaches. Congratulations on this amazing accomplishment! 

In their recent AEA 365 article, Presenting a Virtual Poster, current MSME students Gabriella Huff, Anna Poole, Lauren Kennedy, and Rebecca Long reflected on their experiences presenting virtual posters at the April DC Consortium Student Conference on Evaluation and Policy.

In April, eight MSME students and alumni presented their practicum work at the annual DC Consortium Student Conference on Evaluation and Policy. Gabby Huff, Lauren Kennedy, Rebecca Long, Anna Poole, Jeremy Starr, and Maddison Staszkiewicz presented posters on their Master's practicum work; and David Anderson and Catherine Denial presented papers.

Thank you to the AU representatives on the DCSCEP organizing committee, David Anderson, Lauren Kennedy, Emily LoPiccolo, and Yasemin Simsek, for all of their hard work planning the conference. 

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Dr. Beverly Peters has more than 25 years of experience teaching, conducting research, and managing democracy and community development projects in South Africa, Zimbabwe, Sierra Leone, and Liberia, among other countries.

Dr. Peters is a specialist in the use of qualitative methods for monitoring and evaluation. She writes a blog on Qualitative Methods for M&E and is a regular contributor on this topic for the American Evaluation Association's 365 Series. 

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Dr. Beverly Peters

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