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Catherine Rain on Going Public: Communicating Findings like a Pro!

I’m Catherine Rain of Rain and Brehm Consulting Group, Inc., a research and evaluation firm in Rockledge, Florida. Ever look at an evaluation project overflowing with new learning and fantastic results and wonder: What now? What can we do with this valuable information –beyond writing a report or peer-review publishing? How about taking it public …

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Bloggers Series: Catherine (Brehm) Rain on The Evaluation Forum

My name is Catherine (Brehm) Rain, Vice President of Rain & Brehm Consulting Group, Inc., an independent evaluation and consulting firm located in Rockledge, Florida.  I blog at The Evaluation Forum. Rad Resource – The Evaluation Forum: New to our website, The Evaluation Forum focuses on the why and wherefore of evaluation of health promotion …

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Catherine (Brehm) Rain on Grasshopper Moments: The Kung-Fu Masters of Process Evaluation

I’m Catherine (Brehm) Rain of Rain and Brehm Consulting Group, Inc., an independent research and evaluation firm in Rockledge, Florida. I specialize in Process Evaluation, which answers the questions Who, What, When, Where and How in support of the Outcome Evaluation. Field evaluations occur in chaotic environments where change is a constant. Documenting and managing …

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DG TIG Week: Analyzing DRG Problems Holistically – and Strengthening M&E in the Process by Catherine Kelly and Jeanette Tocol

Hi, we are Catherine Kelly and Jeanette Tocol from the Research, Evaluation and Learning Division of the American Bar Association Rule of Law Initiative (ABA ROLI) in Washington D.C. Democracy, rule of law, and governance practitioners often speak about the benefits of “holistic” and “systems-oriented approaches” to designing and assessing the effectiveness of programming.  Yet …

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Ed Eval TIG Week: Catherine Callow-Heusser on Using Retrospective Assessments of Knowledge and Skills When Pretest Data Are Not Available

Hi! My name is Catherine Callow-Heusser, Ph.D., President of EndVision Research and Evaluation. I served as the evaluator of a 5-year Office of Special Education Programs (OSEP) funded personnel preparation grant. The project trained two cohorts of graduate students, each completing a 2-year Master’s level program. When the grant was funded, our first task was …

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Catherine Callow-Heusser on Making Every Child Visible: Analyzing Data to Reveal Systems Level Challenges

My name is Catherine Callow-Heusser, and I’m the President of EndVision Research and Evaluation. I sometimes provide pro bono statistical services to a local school district that is one of Utah’s highest performing districts in elementary reading and math. They build student success despite having one of the lowest expenditures per pupil in the country. …

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SIM TIG Week: How to best integrate respective areas of expertise toward a common purpose by Joanna Cohen

My name is Joanna Cohen, a Senior Evaluation Officer at the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation. At MacArthur, we take a cross-departmental, team-oriented approach to our work. This means that from the onset of any given program, representatives from every corner of the organization—including our Office of Evaluation—are collaborating to advance our program’s …

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FIE TIG Week: Data Is Not Objective: Feminist Data Analysis by Heather Krause

Hi. I’m Heather Krause, founder of Datassist. I’ve been doing data analysis around the globe for a long time and am an advocate for using ethics and equity as the foundations for all our work. My presentation on Feminist Data Analysis focused on step by step processes to avoid sexism, racism, homophobia and more in …

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