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Ed Eval TIG Week: Catherine Callow-Heusser on Using Retrospective Assessments of Knowledge and Skills When Pretest Data Are Not Available

2 Comments / Prek-12 Educational Evaluation, Uncategorized / November 29, 2016 November 25, 2016

Hi! My name is Catherine Callow-Heusser, Ph.D., President of EndVision Research and Evaluation. I served as the evaluator of a 5-year Office of Special Education Programs (OSEP) funded personnel preparation grant. The project trained two cohorts of graduate students, each completing a 2-year Master’s level program. When the grant was funded, our first task was …

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Best of aea365: Monica Hargraves and Miranda Fang on Operationalizing the “Golden Spike” – Practical Guidance for Literature Searches to Complement Program Evaluation

Hello! We are Monica Hargraves and Miranda Fang, from the Cornell Office for Research on Evaluation. We presented together at Eval2012 would like to share some practical tips on literature searches in the context of evaluation. 2016 Update: Monica Hargraves is now Associate Director for Evaluation Partnerships at the Cornell Office for Research on Evaluation; Miranda Fang is now Manager, …

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Carla Hillerns and Pei-Pei Lei on a Quest to Eliminate Double-Barreled Survey Questions

Leave a Comment / Quantitative Methods: Theory and Design / December 20, 2015 December 20, 2015

We are Carla Hillerns and Pei-Pei Lei from the Office of Survey Research at the University of Massachusetts Medical School’s Center for Health Policy and Research. We’d like to discuss a common mistake in surveys – double-barreled questions. As the name implies, a double-barreled question asks about two topics, which can lead to issues of …

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Pei-Pei Lei and Carla Hillerns on Smart Survey Design: Randomization of Response Options

2 Comments / Quantitative Methods: Theory and Design / April 12, 2015 April 12, 2015

Hi, we are Pei-Pei Lei and Carla Hillerns from the Office of Survey Research at the University of Massachusetts Medical School. Have you ever selected an answer to a survey question without reading all of the choices? Maybe you paid more attention to the first choice than the rest? Today, we’d like to share a …

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OL-ECB Week: Lisa Richardson on Coaching to Build Capacity

Leave a Comment / Organizational Learning and Evaluation Capacity Building / November 25, 2014 November 23, 2014

My name is Lisa Richardson and I am the internal Improvement Advisor/Evaluator for the UCLA-Duke University National Center for Child Traumatic Stress (NCCTS), which in addition to coordinating the collaborative activities of the National Child Traumatic Stress Network (NCTSN), provides leadership in many aspects of child trauma policy, practice, and training. Online surveys are a …

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Carla Hillerns and Pei-Pei Lei on You had me at Hello: Effective Email Subject Lines for Survey Invitations

2 Comments / Quantitative Methods: Theory and Design / August 14, 2014 August 10, 2014

Did we get your attention? We hope so. We are Carla Hillerns and Pei-Pei Lei – survey enthusiasts at the Office of Survey Research at the University of Massachusetts Medical School. An email subject line can be a powerful first impression of an online survey. It has the potential to convince someone to open your …

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Andrea Crews-Brown, Tom McKlin, Brandi Villa and Shelly Engelman on Analysis of Retrospective Surveying

1 Comment / Quantitative Methods: Theory and Design / June 10, 2014 June 8, 2014

Hi! This is Andrea Crews-Brown, Tom McKlin, and Brandi Villa with SageFox Consulting Group, a privately owned evaluation firm with offices in Amherst, MA and Atlanta, GA, and Shelly Engelman with the School District of Philadelphia. Today we’d like to share results of a recent survey analysis. Lessons Learned: Retrospective vs. Traditional Surveying Evaluators typically implement …

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Harlan Luxenberg on Creating Streamlined, Visually Appealing Reports with Crystal Reports

Leave a Comment / Data Visualization and Reporting / June 14, 2013 June 14, 2013

Hello! I am Harlan Luxenberg, the Chief Operating Officer of Professional Data Analysts, Inc. (PDA), a small firm in Minneapolis specializing in public health evaluation. Over the years we have worked on multiple projects where we needed to do one or more of the following: report to a diverse set of stakeholders about program outcomes …

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Ed Eval Week: Silvana Bialosiewicz on Tips for Collecting Valid and Reliable Data from Children

3 Comments / Prek-12 Educational Evaluation / May 9, 2013 May 9, 2013

Hi! I’m Silvana Bialosiewicz, an advanced doctoral student at Claremont Graduate University (CGU) and Senior Research Associate at the Claremont Evaluation Center. My goal as an applied researcher is to help develop and disseminate “best-practices” for high-quality evaluation of programs that serve children. Today I’d like to share some strategies for collecting valid and reliable …

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LAWG Week: Fatima Frank on Using Technology in the Field of Data Collection

3 Comments / International and Cross-cultural Evaluation / February 26, 2013 February 26, 2013

Welcome to the Evaluation 2013 Conference Local Arrangements Working Group (LAWG) week on aea365. My name is Fatima Frank. I am the Evaluation Specialist for evalû, a small consulting firm that focuses exclusively on rigorous evaluations of social and economic development initiatives. I was recently part of a discussion with fellow evaluators on how organizations with limited resources …

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