Dana Wanzer

This is an Eval Central archive copy, find the original at danawanzer.com In reply to Melanie Hunsaker. As I get older and become more experienced, and after my conversations on boundaries and thinking about the relationships between evaluation and research, I’ve almost become a bit less inclined towards boundaries. In the beginning, it was nice […]

This is an Eval Central archive copy, find the original at danawanzer.com This semester, I started using Perusall for all my assigned readings in my evaluation course. In this course, students are often learning for the first time what evaluation is while at the same time working with a local organization to design an evaluation […]

This is an Eval Central archive copy, find the original at danawanzer.com In reply to Jimmy. I personally don’t. The education plan is free, and so my students are able to also create free accounts. The teams pricing looks like it is $10 per member per month at the lower tier, and I wouldn’t want […]

This is an Eval Central archive copy, find the original at danawanzer.com This blog post was originally posted in the American Evaluation Association July 2020 newsletter. Thank you to AEA for asking me to reflect on what the AEA values mean to me and how they guide my work. This summer has been a time […]

This is an Eval Central archive copy, find the original at danawanzer.com Background On May 25, 2020, George Floyd was killed by police officers. This news is not new. George’s cries of “I can’t breathe” echo the same cries by Eric Garner, who was also killed by police officers on July 17, 2014. Black, indigenous, […]

This is an Eval Central archive copy, find the original at danawanzer.com Packing up the spring 2020 semester and transitioning to remote teaching was difficult, not just for me but also for my students. As I told them, “None of us signed up for online teaching. But we’ll make it through this.” And we did! […]

This is an Eval Central archive copy, find the original at danawanzer.com In reply to Allison Titcomb. Certainly, thinking of evaluation as a transdiscipline or the alpha discipline that Scriven describes is one reason why I think evaluation can inform research-practice partnerships. I think it’s also just the consultancy nature of what we do and […]

This is an Eval Central archive copy, find the original at danawanzer.com Notion calls itself an all-in-one workspace for notes and documents, wikis, tasks and projects, and spreadsheets and databases. Although I still prefer Todoist as my task manager (I wish Todoist and Notion could integrate!), Notion has become my project management software tool. I’ll […]

This is an Eval Central archive copy, find the original at danawanzer.com The RoE TIG convened a working group to help promote the field of RoE, and one of our first tasks was to come to a consensus on the definition of RoE. There are many definitions of research on evaluation (RoE), which can make […]

This is an Eval Central archive copy, find the original at danawanzer.com Although there is much to change in my intro to psychology course I taught for the first time this semester, one thing I know I will keep next semester is the concept demonstration project that students did at the end of the semester. […]