survey design

YFE TIG Week: Accessing Youth Expertise in Designing Surveys for Youth by Mary Murray

Greetings. I’m Mary Murray, founder of of MEMconsultants. For two decades my team has built the capacity of youth-serving organizations to use evaluation practices to strengthen programs. Consistently, this has involved gathering information from youth via end of program surveys, interviews and focus groups. Often, we incorporate activities that expand beyond simply collecting information from …

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LGBTQ Week: Do you need to ask about sex & gender on your survey? By Joseph Van Matre

Curator note: This article was originally published in 2017 but we thought it would make a great addition to this week. We often rerun articles as part of our “Best of AEA365 series.” Happy LGBTQ+ Evaluator Week! I’m Joseph Van Matre, an institutional research analyst at the University of California*. Surveys are an integral part …

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CEA Week: Valuing Youth Voices in Evaluation by Amanda Lambie, Cara Karter, and Michelle Lopez

Hello, we are Amanda Lambie, Cara Karter, and Michelle Lopez, three members of the Research & Evaluation team at After School Matters. As internal evaluators for an out-of-school time provider, we highly value youth voice as an essential ingredient in positive youth development. So we love that this year’s AEA theme is Speak Truth to …

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CEA Week: Fostering a Learning Community to Improve the Health and Well-Being of Sexual and Gender Minority (SGM) Populations by Dylan Felt and Peter Lindeman

Hi everyone, Dylan Felt and Peter Lindeman here with the EDIT Program at Northwestern University’s Institute for Sexual and Gender Minority Health and Wellbeing. Our team focuses on fostering a learning community to improve the health and wellbeing of sexual and gender minority (SGM) populations in Chicago and beyond. Our work has taught us that …

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NA TIG Week: Improving Needs Assessment (NA) Practice: The Seemingly Simple but not so Simple Double Scaled Survey by James W. Altschuld, Hsin-Ling (Sonya) Hung, and Yi-Fang Lee

Hi, we are James W. Altschuld, Hsin-Ling (Sonya) Hung, and Yi-Fang Lee from The Ohio State University, Virginia Commonwealth University, and National Taiwan Normal University, and have presented on, written about, and been involved in NAs for many years.  In reviewing manuscripts for publication, we have observed measurement and analysis issues in double scaled surveys used for …

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Objection! That’s a Leading Survey Question by Carla Hillerns

I am Carla Hillerns from the Office of Survey Research at the University of Massachusetts Medical School’s Center for Health Policy and Research. In 2015, my colleague and I shared a post about how to avoid using double-barreled survey questions. Today I’d like to tackle another pesky survey design problem – leading questions. Just as …

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SIM TIG Week: Using Multi-Dimensional Poverty Outcomes in Measurement by Heather Esper and Yaquta Fatehi

This is Heather Esper, senior program manager, and Yaquta Fatehi, senior research associate, from the Performance Measurement Initiative at the William Davidson Institute at the University of Michigan. Our team specializes in performance measurement to improve organizations’ effectiveness, scalability, and sustainability and to create more value for their stakeholders in emerging economies. Our contribution to …

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Secrets for Effective Survey Invitations by Carla Hillerns and Pei-Pei Lei

Greetings AEA colleagues. We are Carla Hillerns and Pei-Pei Lei – survey enthusiasts in the Office of Survey Research at the University of Massachusetts Medical School. In 2014, we shared a post about effective email subject lines for internet survey invitations. Today we’d like to focus on the body of the email. Here are strategies for writing email invitations …

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OCF Week: Holly Kipp on Measuring social-emotional learning in middle schoolers

I am Holly Kipp, Researcher, from The Oregon Community Foundation (OCF). Today’s post shares some of what we’re learning through our efforts to measure social-emotional learning (SEL) in youth in the context of our K-12 Student Success Initiative. The Initiative, funded in partnership with The Ford Family Foundation, aims to help close the achievement gap …

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OCF Week: Caitlin Ruffenach and Kim Leonard on Lessons learned through the Oregon Arts Education Snapshot

We are Caitlin Ruffenach, Researcher, and Kim Leonard, Senior Evaluation Officer, from The Oregon Community Foundation (OCF). Among other things, we are working on an evaluation of the Studio to School Initiative at OCF, which focuses on the development of sustainable arts education programs through partnerships between arts organizations and schools. This past summer, in …

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