Data

Lindsey Dunn and Lauren Fluegge on Organizing Data

Our names are Lindsey Dunn and Lauren Fluegge and we are PhD. students at The University of North Carolina at Greensboro. Recently, we have been involved with a project in which the data come from many different sources and often include hundreds of thousands of cases. We used primarily three programs to organize and merge …

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Guili Zhang on Longitudinal Data Management and Analysis

My name is Guili Zhang. I am an Assistant Professor of Research and Evaluation Methodology at East Carolina University. During the last ten years, I have evaluated the National Science Foundation’s SUCCEED program, and developed and analyzed the SUCCEED longitudinal database, which includes data from nine universities and spans 20 years. Our research team’s publications …

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DVR Week: Chris Lysy on Data Sources that Embrace Data Visualization

My name is Chris Lysy and I am a Research Analyst at Westat. I am the creator of EvalCentral and I also blog at Fresh Spectrum. Additionally, you can find me on Twitter: @clysy. One promising new online trend is the addition of data visualization tools on major data source websites. So often data is …

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DVR Week: Stephanie Evergreen on the Data Visualization and Reporting TIG

My name is Stephanie Evergreen and I am so proud to be the founding Chair of the newest Topical Interest Group in AEA. What new TIG, you ask? It’s the Data Visualization and Reporting TIG. And we are so geeked to be here that we’ve taken over a whole week of aea365 to share with …

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Melissa Maras on Maximizing Existing Data in Schools

Hello, my name is Melissa Maras, and I am an assistant professor at the University of Missouri. Schools are complex, interdisciplinary contexts always in flux with new and evolving policies, programs, and practices, all resulting in a rich mess of data that should be used in school-based evaluation, but is often difficult to navigate. Below …

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Mario Lurig on Safeguarding Your Data Sharing

My name is Mario Lurig, and I am the Technical Training Manager at SurveyGizmo, leading documentation, webinars, and other methods for educating evaluators on using our online survey tool. Regardless of how you collect evaluation data, the data collected requires protection and careful handling to ensure that the results from your respondents are kept in …

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Lisa Garbrecht on Overcoming Data Quality Challenges in School-Based Settings

Hello, my name is Lisa Garbrecht. As a Research Associate at EVALCORP Research & Consulting, I work on numerous projects requiring data collection from youth. As you may know, it is not always easy to obtain high quality data (i.e., sufficient numbers of completed surveys, academic data, etc.) when relying on schools to help facilitate …

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Dawn Hanson Smart on Reading Outside Your Field

Hi, I’m Dawn Hanson Smart, Senior Associate at Clegg & Associates, Inc. in Seattle, a consulting firm focused on planning and evaluation with nonprofits, state and local governments, tribal organizations, and foundations. I’ve been an evaluator for more than 25 years, with an eclectic mix of clients and projects. I think it is this diversity …

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Susan Kistler on the Democratization of Data

My name is Susan Kistler, AEA’s Executive Director, and I contribute each Saturday’s aea365 post. Earlier this week, I had the pleasure of speaking about the democratization of data at the AEA/CDC Summer Evaluation Institute.  While a candidate, US President Barak Obama committed to putting government data online in universally accessible formats (see here). At …

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