Three Ways Evaluation Skills Can Boost Any Career
In February, I attended an advisory council meeting at the Office of Graduate & Professional Studies alongside 20 senior executives. These thought leaders ranged from graduate-level program...
Full StoryBuilding Monitoring and Evaluation Systems for Development and Emergency Public Health Projects
My career as a public health monitoring & evaluation (M&E) specialist is an exciting one. As a public health M&E specialist, my goals are to help the organizations I work for and the...
Full StoryThe Challenges of Monitoring and Evaluation in the Workplace
Many organizations that implement community projects or programs are beginning to recognize the need for monitoring and evaluation. Though leadership oftentimes agrees with the need for a...
Full StoryQualitative Methods in Monitoring and Evaluation: Cross Cultural Communications and Effective Evaluation
From my experiences, the most effective qualitative researchers and evaluators are expert cross cultural communicators who can connect and build rapport with people from all walks of life. The...
Full StoryQualitative Methods in Monitoring and Evaluation: Mapping Tools and Transect Walks
Interviews dominate qualitative data collection for monitoring and evaluation. Qualitative researchers and evaluators use interviews to collect targeted data from respondents relatively quickly....
Full StoryQualitative Methods in Monitoring and Evaluation: Qualitative Research Questions
Selecting your research topic and crafting a qualitative research question from it is the first, and possibly the hardest, step of qualitative research. You will likely start with a topic, and as...
Full StoryGrant Evaluation as a Career
Many state and federal agencies announce funding opportunities or grants through formal solicitations for entities that provide or support program initiatives across the spectrum of human social...
Full StoryQualitative Methods in Monitoring and Evaluation: Concept Formation and Operationalization
Concept formation in qualitative research is a systematic process whereby the researcher sets definitions for important concepts that emerge during the research. These definitions help to provide...
Full StoryInstituting Monitoring and Evaluation at a school in Palestine: Micropolitics Challenges
I completed my Graduate Certificate in Project Monitoring and Evaluation from American University in two cities. I started while living in Hartford, Connecticut, and found myself testing my...
Full StoryBridging the Gap: Evaluation Theory and Practice
Evaluation is a relatively new field that has emerged from a diverse array of applied social sciences. Although it is practice-oriented, there has been a proliferation of research on evaluation...
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