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Database management

Laura Beals and Noah Schectman on Data Formatting for Performance Management Systems

4 Comments / Uncategorized / February 23, 2014

Hello! We are Laura Beals (program evaluator) and Noah Schectman (database administrator) from Jewish Family and Children’s Service (JF&CS), located in Boston, MA. At JF&CS we use a cloud-based case management system to facilitate data collection about our clients and services. We are part of the internal evaluation department at JF&CS (i.e., he is not …

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Leigh Wang on Database Design

Leave a Comment / Quantitative Methods: Theory and Design / June 25, 2010

Hi, I’m Lihshing Leigh Wang, and I’m an Associate Professor of Psychometrics and Quantitative Methodology at University of Cincinnati. Today I want to share with you a tip about database design. Evaluation research that involves large-scale, multi-level, multi-year, and multi-cohort data presents special challenges to evaluators. Most training programs and publication venues focus on the …

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Martha Henry on Data Confidentiality and Data Ownership

6 Comments / Uncategorized / June 24, 2010

I am Martha (Marty) Henry, founder and President of M.A. Henry Consulting, LLC in St. Louis.  Today I will be sharing a story and some hot tips about data confidentiality and data ownership. My firm was evaluating a federally funded project at a university under IRB oversight with approved consents for participants.  The consents stated …

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Susan Kistler on the Democratization of Data

Leave a Comment / Collaborative, Participatory and Empowerment Evaluation, Integrating Technology into Evaluation / June 24, 2010

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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