This is an Eval Central archive copy, find the original at danawanzer.com I have been crazy busy with my first semester as an assistant professor of psychology in evaluation at University of Wisconsin-Stout, but I wanted to share with you an activity that I found very beneficial after our first exam in Introduction to Psychology. […]
Evaluation as a Bridging Profession
This is an Eval Central archive copy, find the original at danawanzer.com This blog is largely inspired by some recent conversations with colleagues (read below), the theme of the Canadian Evaluation Society’s 2019 conference of Bridges, and the blog post by Jade Malone about “un-boxing” evaluation in reference to the theme of the Australian Evaluation […]
Looking back on 2018… and forward to 2019
This is an Eval Central archive copy, find the original at danawanzer.com This year was jam-packed with excitement! Some of my highlights of 2018 are shared below. I got my first two publications! In a Survey Methods class in 2015, three other students and I did a survey project creating a scale measuring aesthetic experiences, […]
Adventures in Teaching: Redoing Assignments
This is an Eval Central archive copy, find the original at danawanzer.com As many of you are aware, I am teaching my first undergraduate-level course this semester. I have posted about how I didn’t realize how much work the syllabus and planning a course takes (blog post 1 and 2) as well as how I found […]
Adventures in Teaching: Taking Advantage of Peer Review
This is an Eval Central archive copy, find the original at danawanzer.com Due to the Thanksgiving holiday this week, I cancelled our Monday morning class. However, this would mean 3 weeks of not meeting in class given two Monday holidays this year, so I made the class an online one instead. I decided to have […]
Questions, Methods, and Budget, oh my!
This is an Eval Central archive copy, find the original at danawanzer.com Most evaluators are quick to say that the evaluation questions drive the methods. I think most evaluators would agree with this statement. However, what do you do about that pesky budget? How does the budget play a role in determining the questions and/or […]
Tips for Getting the Most Out of #Eval18
This is an Eval Central archive copy, find the original at danawanzer.com During our latest #EvalTwitter chat, I asked people to write up tips for attendees of the AEA Evaluation Conference (hashtag #Eval18). I got some great responses and wanted to collect them here to share easily with others. First, I would like to mention […]
Using R for Immediate Reporting in Evaluation
This is an Eval Central archive copy, find the original at danawanzer.com I am pretty fortunate that one of the companies I work for is incredibly interested in shifting the organization towards R. One of those shifts was my boss asking, “Can we recreate this report in R? Can we create the report so that […]
Presentations at #Eval18
This is an Eval Central archive copy, find the original at danawanzer.com This year I am going to be far less busy at the AEA conference! I will only be presenting two papers, both of which are research projects I am conducting with Dr. Tarek Azzam and colleagues at Claremont Graduate University. The abstracts and more […]