implementation evaluation

Implementation/Process Evaluation: Strategies to Identify Potential Areas of Focus by Tamara Young

I’m Tamara Young, an associate professor in Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis at North Carolina State University.  Today, I’m sharing a heuristic I use with students to help them generate a comprehensive list of potential areas of focus for an implementation evaluation (of course, with the understanding that stakeholders, preferable primary intended users, ultimately select the focus). …

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Experiments TIG Week: Laura Peck on The Origins and Meaning of the “Black Box” Label and How Innovative Experimental Research is Working Shake It

Hi again, it’s Laura Peck here, that evaluator from Abt Associates.  To close out the Design & Analysis of Experiments TIG’s first week of contributions to the AEA365 blog, I focus on one of the main critiques of experimental evaluations, that known as the “black box” criticism. Experimentally-designed evaluations can isolate the impact of an …

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