Ep 6 : Dr. Tamara Hamai - Being a Valuable Eval Consultant
Everyday Evaluation
In this episode, we talk with Dr. Tamara Hamai about her 10 years experience as an independent consultant in evaluation. This is a must listen for any evaluation consultant. She discusses strategies to build client partnerships, helpful resources, and what she believes are the ways consultants distract themselves when opening shop.
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Ep 5: Stanley Capela - Thriving as an Internal Evaluator
Everyday Evaluation
Stanley Capela has been involved in program evaluation activities for 40 years and has done near everything. He has led over a hundred workshops and site visits internationally. His accomplishments and titles are more than can be fit in this description box.
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Ep 4: Dr. Ryan Watkins - Assessing Needs and Big Data
Everyday Evaluation
Ryan Watkins, Ph.D. is a Professor at the George Washington University in Washington DC, where he teaches and does research on needs assessments, instructional design, and human-technology collaborations.
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Ep 3: Ciara C. Knight & Sarah Mason - Becoming Culturally Responsive and Situational Aware
Everyday Evaluation
In today's episode we speak with two professional evaluators about listening to context.
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Ep 2: Dr. Jonathan Scaccia - Improving Communities and Organizational Readiness
Everyday Evaluation
Dr. Jonathan Scaccia is a practicing community psychologist, COO with the Wandersman Group, and evaluation consultant.
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Ep 1: Kathleen Doll - Bringing values together with Democratic Evaluations
Everyday Evaluation
We speak with Kathleen Doll, a doctoral student at Claremont Graduate University who specializes in Democratic Evaluation approaches. We discuss how to be inclusive in our approaches to ensure everyone has a chance to have their voices heard.
info_outlineRyan Watkins, Ph.D. is a Professor at the George Washington University in Washington DC, where he teaches and does research on needs assessments, instructional design, and human-technology collaborations.
He is co-host of the podcast Parsing Science, developer of the We Share Science (www.wesharescience.org) platform for sharing video abstracts of scientific research; and maintains the website www.needsassessment.org as a resource site for those conducting needs assessments.
In this episode, we discuss what separates a need vs. a want, how technology may be changing this, and how evaluators can take advantage of technological trends in their work.