case studies

MVE TIG Week: Using Case Studies to Improve Care for Veterans and the Nation by Annette L Gardner

I am Annette L Gardner and I am a faculty member at the University of California, San Francisco. Developing information-rich case studies can be one of the most rewarding evaluation methods.  Not only do they speak to stakeholders on a deep level but as described below they can create a legacy that endures and has …

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TRE TIG Week: Cath Kane & Jan Hogle on Case Study Approaches to Assessing Translational Research Impact

We are internal evaluators Cath Kane, of Weill Cornell Clinical & Translational Science Center, and Jan Hogle, at the University of Wisconsin-Madison Institute for Clinical & Translational Research. The 62 Clinical and Translational Science Award (CTSA) hubs — along with community-based and industry partners — collaborate to advance translational research from scientific discoveries to improved …

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Wilder Research Week: Caryn Mohr on Case Studies

Hello, I am Caryn Mohr, a Research Scientist at Wilder Research, a nonprofit human services research and evaluation group in St. Paul, Minnesota. Our work ranges from qualitative to quasi-experimental studies, and often involves multiple research methods. My recent work has afforded the opportunity to see the merits and challenges in conducting case study research. …

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Allan Porowski and Heather Clawson on Conducting a Large-Scale, Mixed-Method Evaluation of a Dropout Prevention Program

Hello! We’re Allan Porowski from ICF International and Heather Clawson from Communities In Schools (CIS). We completed a five-year, comprehensive, mixed-method evaluation of CIS, which featured  several study components – including three student-level randomized controlled trials; a school-level quasi-experimental study; eight case studies; a natural variation study to identify what factors distinguished the most successful …

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ROE Bonus: Paul Brandon and Landry Fukunaga on Methods Used in Empirical Studies of Stakeholder Involvement in Program Evaluation

We are Paul Brandon and Landry Fukunaga from the University of Hawai‘i at M?noa. Stakeholder involvement in program evaluation is one of the most enduring topics in the program evaluation literature, but empirical research on the topic has been summarized only within limited domains. We conducted a literature review of empirical research, examining 7,580 publications …

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