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CMM TIG Week: Google Tools for Multi-site Evaluation by Audrey Roerrer

Leave a Comment / Cluster, Multi-site and Multi-level Evaluation / May 27, 2023

Hi, I’m Audrey Rorrer and I’m an evaluator for the Center for Education Innovation in the College of Computing and Informatics at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte, where several projects I evaluate operate at multiple locations across the country.  Multisite evaluations are loaded with challenges, such as data collection integrity, evaluation training for local project leaders, and the cost of resources. My go-to resource has become Google because it’s cost-effective both in terms of efficiency and budget (it’s free). I’ve used it as a data collection tool and resource dissemination tool.

BH TIG Week: Knack: A Tool to Enhance Data Collection and Reporting Efforts by Kristina Little and Sam Robison

1 Comment / Behavioral Health / October 4, 2021

Greetings everyone.  We are Kristina Little and Sam Robison from the Louisiana State University Social Research and Evaluation Center (SREC).  In pursuit of our mission to foster healthy social systems, the SREC team undertakes a wide array of activities (e.g., program development, program evaluation, research) requiring data collection and reporting.  Our work largely takes place …

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Strategic Resilience: Shifting Programming and Data Collection by Maryfrances Porter

2 Comments / Uncategorized / May 1, 2020

I’m Maryfrances Porter, the President and Founder of Partnerships for Strategic Impact™. We specialize in helping nonprofits, governments, foundations, and corporate CSRs design maximally effective programs and initiatives, ensure high quality implementation, demonstrate impact, and to get their data working for them. In our work since COVID19, we have identified 6 strategies to help structure …

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Using remote sensing tools and Google Earth for evaluation purposes by Serdar Bayryyev

2 Comments / Uncategorized / March 9, 2019

I am Serdar Bayryyev, an evaluation officer at the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization, and would like to share and interesting example of using modern remote sensing tools in evaluation work. Hot Tip: Our recent evaluation of the large, multi-million dollar irrigation rehabilitation programme in Afghanistan has benefitted from the use of the tool …

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SEA PD Week: Enhancing Data Collection Through Effective Stakeholder Relationships by Jennifer Johnson

2 Comments / Uncategorized / January 28, 2018

Hi, I am Jennifer Johnson. I am the Director of the Division of Public Health Statistics and Performance Management for the Florida Department of Health. I want to discuss how improving stakeholder relationships can improve data collection. In most evaluations, collection of quantitative and qualitative data forms a critical aspect of stakeholder engagement and relationships. …

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SEA PD Week: Using Technology to Simplify Shared Measurements and Data Collection by Kelli Keck

Leave a Comment / Uncategorized / January 28, 2018

Hey, there! I am Kelli Keck. I work as the Vice President of Epiphany Community Services, an evaluation and consulting firm that focuses on collaborations and community coalitions. I have found it difficult to obtain consistent process and outcome data from collective impact and collaborative partners. Simplifying the data collection process allows for continuous review …

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Rhodri Dierst-Davies on Solving federal evaluation challenges through streamlining data collection and reporting

Leave a Comment / Uncategorized / November 14, 2016

Hi, my name is Rhodri Dierst-Davies, an evaluation specialist with Deloitte Consulting LLP working out of our federal practice. Many times federal programs are, by design, implemented differently across states and municipalities. These programs rely on inputs from local stakeholders and policy makers to ensure they are tailored to the needs of the communities they …

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YFE TIG Week: Toyin Owolabi and Susan Igras on Challenges and Game-Based Solutions to Data Collection with Very Young Adolescents

Leave a Comment / Youth Focused Evaluation / October 2, 2015

Greetings from Toyin Owolabi at the Women’s Health Action Research Center (WHARC) in Nigeria and Susan Igras at Georgetown University’s Institute for Reproductive Health (IRH). Last year, we joined together on a cross-country project to build capacity in designing and evaluating programs for younger adolescents. Younger adolescent programming and related program evaluation is nascent in …

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YFE Week: Jessica Manta-Meyer, Jocelyn Atkins, and Saili Willis on Creative Ways to Solicit Youth Feedback

Leave a Comment / Youth Focused Evaluation / September 10, 2014

Our names are Jessica Manta-Meyer, Jocelyn Atkins and Saili Willis and we are evaluators at Public Profit, an evaluation firm with a special focus on out-of-school time programs for youth. We usually evaluate networks of after school programs as a whole (some of which serve more than 20,000 youth, where a survey is indeed one …

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Audrey Roerrer on Google Tools for Multi-site Evaluation

1 Comment / Integrating Technology into Evaluation / February 21, 2014

Hi, I’m Audrey Rorrer and I’m an evaluator for the Center for Education Innovation in the College of Computing and Informatics at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte, where several projects I evaluate operate at multiple locations across the country.  Multisite evaluations are loaded with challenges, such as data collection integrity, evaluation training for …

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