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Siobhan Cooney on School and District Approvals for Data Collection with Students

Leave a Comment / Prek-12 Educational Evaluation / November 9, 2016

Hello! I’m Siobhan Cooney, Principal Consultant of Cooney Collaborative. Over the past eight years, I’ve had the good fortune of working with more than 100 school and district entities to gain approval for data collection activities – such as surveys, assessments and focus groups – involving students whose teachers have followed non-traditional paths to certification …

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Research vs Eval Week: Dana Gonzales and Lonnie Wederski on IRB Review of STEM Learning Evaluations

1 Comment / STEM Education and Training / August 13, 2016

Hello! We are Dana Gonzales and Lonnie Wederski, institutional review board (IRB) members at Solutions IRB, specialists in the review of evaluation research. Why talk about IRB review for evaluations of science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) education projects? Most simply, federally funded projects may require it. You may also ask, “Why aren’t all of …

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CASNET Week: Frances Lawrenz and Amy Grack Nelson on What Do You Do When IRB Approvals Differ?

Leave a Comment / Uncategorized / September 27, 2015

This is Frances Lawrenz and Amy Grack Nelson from University of Minnesota; Amy also works at the Science Museum of Minnesota. We’re part of the Complex Adaptive Systems as a Model for Network Evaluations (CASNET) research project, which has involved observing, interviewing, audio recording and collecting artifacts about adult participants in the NSF-funded Nanoscale Informal …

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Heather King on Tips for Working With School District Research Review Boards

2 Comments / Uncategorized / June 29, 2014

Hi!  I’m Heather King, an Associate Project Director at Outlier Research & Evaluation at the University of Chicago. I’d like to share some tips for applying to conduct research in school districts. Research review boards (RRBs) and institutional review boards (IRBs) are tasked with ensuring that research and evaluation projects meet the requirements for protecting …

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Dana Harley on Tips for Utilizing Photovoice with Children and Adolescents: Navigating the Institutional Review Board

2 Comments / Disabilities and Underrepresented Populations, Qualitative Methods / June 22, 2012

I am Dana Harley, an Assistant Professor at Northern Kentucky University.  I specialize in child and adolescent mental health and developmental issues, with a focus on participatory action research methods such as, “photovoice.” Photovoice is a cutting edge research method aimed at uncovering issues, concerns, constructs, or real-life experiences of those who have historically been …

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Debi Lang and Kathy Muhr on Identifying Hidden or Hard to Reach Populations

1 Comment / Disabilities and Underrepresented Populations / June 1, 2012

We are Debi Lang and Kathy Muhr, members of the Research and Evaluation Unit at the University of Massachusetts Medical School Center for Health Policy and Research. Populations considered hidden or hard to reach for participation in qualitative evaluation studies may be small in size, their members difficult to locate, or hard to distinguish from …

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Judy Savageau on The IRB Process in Human Subject Research

Leave a Comment / Health Evaluation / May 21, 2012

Hello! I’m Judy Savageau, faculty, researcher, and IRB representative for the University of Massachusetts Center for Health Policy and Research. I want to bring attention to the need for us to be mindful that our stakeholder groups are often ‘subjects’ in our evaluation research. Why are there ethical concerns? Like research, evaluation involves human subjects. …

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Linda Cabral, Laura Sefton, and Kathy Muhr on Recruiting People with Mental Health Conditions for Data Collection

2 Comments / Disabilities and Underrepresented Populations, Health Evaluation / March 9, 2012

Hello! We are Linda Cabral, Laura Sefton and Kathy Muhr from the Center for Health Policy and Research at the University of Massachusetts Medical School. We recently completed an evaluation project that involved recruiting people with mental health conditions to participate in individual interviews, focus groups, and surveys regarding their experiences with a mental health …

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Laurel Lamb on the Golden Rule for Evaluators

2 Comments / Graduate Student and New Evaluators / June 1, 2011

My name is Laurel Lamb and I’ve been a practicing evaluator (although sometimes under the guise of organizational development) for over twenty years. When I sat down to write, I wanted to contemplate what I would share with someone new coming into the field. What have I learned that you couldn’t find in a textbook …

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IRB Part III: Jim Hammerman on Developing In-house Capacity

Leave a Comment / Independent Consulting / May 21, 2010

I’m Jim Hammerman, and I Co-Direct the Evaluation Group at TERC, a non-profit, primarily grant-funded math, science and technology, education research, development, and evaluation company in Cambridge, MA. I’m also a current member and former Chair of TERC’s Institutional Review Board (IRB). Several of us recently noted on AEA’s LinkedIn group that there are at …

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