AEA365, the Tip-a-Day from the American Evaluation Association

Hi! My name is Shelita Hall-Augustus. This summer, I worked with the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation through the AEA Graduate Education Diversity Internship (GEDI) to answer a question that affects all of us: can AI identify evaluation methods the way human evaluators do? I tested ChatGPT and Gemini against ten MacArthur Foundation evaluation re...

Hello, world! My name is Eunji Kong, and I am proud to be part of the Sisterhood of Healing Courage (GEDI 22). As a Graduate Education Diversity Internship (GEDI) scholar, I had the privilege of working with the Los Angeles Education Partnership (LAEP), where I supported equity-focused evaluation projects and learned what evaluation can look like when it is g...

Buenas! My name is M. Magdalena Jimenez Aguilar, but everyone calls me Magda (she/her/ella). I am a fifth-year PhD student and soon-to-be candidate at the University of California, Santa Barbara. I’m a lifelong Californian and University of California student, having received my bachelor’s degree from UC Davis and my master’s degree at UCLA. I am also blessed...

Olá! My name is Mariana Hernandes Grassi, a Latina doctoral student from Brazil at Loyola University Chicago and an alumna of the GEDI 22 cohort (also known as the Sisterhood of Healing Change). Having recently wrapped up my GEDI (Graduate Education Diversity Internship) fellowship last month, I’m reflecting on how my decade-plus background as a language educ...

Hello, AEA365 community! I’m Yakubu Wule Sini, a PhD student in Health Promotion at the University of Oklahoma and an emerging evaluator with experience working in international and conflict-affected settings with United Nations International Organization for Migration,