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Month: March 2013

Video in #Eval Week: Kas Aruskevich on Telling the Story Through Video

1 Comment / Indigenous Peoples in Evaluation, Integrating Technology into Evaluation, STEM Education and Training / March 31, 2013

Greetings from Alaska. I’m kas aruskevich, principal of Evaluation Research Associates (ERA), I work in rural Alaska with a great team of evaluators, associates, and local intermediaries. In the unique Alaskan context in which we work, telling the story through video helps us to show the context of people, place, and situations. Video clips, compiled …

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Susan Kistler on the 2013 Summer Evaluation Training Institute

1 Comment / Uncategorized / March 30, 2013

I am Susan Kistler, AEA’s Executive Director and aea365’s regular Saturday contributor. Today I wanted to share one of the raddest resources of all! Rad Resource – AEA Summer Evaluation Institute: Registration is now open for the AEA Summer Evaluation Training Institute, to be held June 3-5 in Atlanta, Georgia. Let’s take a look at …

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Caryn Mohr on Connecting Primary Research to Community Indicators

Leave a Comment / STEM Education and Training, Uncategorized / March 29, 2013

Hello! I am Caryn Mohr, a Research Scientist at Wilder Research in St. Paul. I’m one of more than 40 researchers in the office who conduct primary research. My own work focuses on education programs addressing opportunity and achievement gaps. Our office also manages Minnesota Compass, a nationally recognized community indicators project. Opportunities to collaborate …

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Paul Bakker on Abandoning the 95% Rule

7 Comments / Quantitative Methods: Theory and Design / March 28, 2013

I’m Paul Bakker, the founder and lead consultant of Social Impact Squared. I help agencies with a social purpose understand, measure, communicate, and improve their outcomes. One of the services I provide is data analysis, so I deal with statistical significance quite a lot. Hot Tip: Abandon the 95% rule. In statistics classes, they teach you to …

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Linda Cabral and Laura Sefton on Using Voice Recognition Software for Transcription

6 Comments / Health Evaluation, Qualitative Methods / March 27, 2013

Hello, we are Linda Cabral and Laura Sefton from the Center for Health Policy and Research at UMass Medical School. We often collect qualitative data from interviews and focus groups. One challenge we frequently face is how to quickly and efficiently transcribe audio data. We have experimented using voice recognition software (VRS), and we’d like …

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Kerry Bruce on Getting Started with Mobile Phones

5 Comments / Integrating Technology into Evaluation, Uncategorized / March 26, 2013

Hi, I am Kerry Bruce, Director of Results and Measurement at Pact.  I am part of Pact’s central technical team that provides monitoring and evaluation support to more than 20 country offices and more than 70 projects around the world.  In 2012 we started to roll out the use of mobile technology in our programs. …

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Kim Snyder, Rene Lavinghouze, and Patricia Rieker on Program Infrastructure – The Left Hand Side of the Logic Model

2 Comments / Health Evaluation / March 26, 2013

This is Kim Snyder, Associate at ICF International, Rene Lavinghouze, Evaluation Team Lead for CDC’s Office on Smoking and Health, and Patricia Rieker, Adjunct Professor of Sociology at Boston University and Associate Professor of Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School. We have been investigating public health program infrastructure as an ignored component of the left hand …

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Kristi Fuller and Glenn Landers on Ensuring Utility in Evaluation Practice

1 Comment / Evaluation Use, Health Evaluation / March 24, 2013

Hello all! We are Kristi Fuller and Glenn Landers, staff at the Georgia Health Policy Center. The Center is housed within Georgia State University’s nationally ranked Andrew Young School of Policy Studies and provides evidence-based research, program development, and policy guidance. We gave a roundtable presentation at the American Evaluation Association’s (AEA) 2012 conference focused …

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Susan Kistler on Songs With an Evaluation Message

3 Comments / Data Visualization and Reporting / March 23, 2013

I am Susan Kistler, the American Evaluation Association’s Executive Director and aea365’s regular Saturday contributor. On occasion, I offer training on different aspects of evaluation. Following a recent workshop at the Minnesota Evaluation Studies Institute, I posted the following to AEA’s LinkedIn Group: Do you know of songs with an evaluation bent? This might be …

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ECLIPS and Systems TIG Week: Tarek Azzam and Matt Keene Recap Systems-Oriented Evaluation

3 Comments / STEM Education and Training, Systems in Evaluation / March 22, 2013

Hello! We are Tarek Azzam (Claremont Graduate University) and Matt Keene (Environmental Protection Agency). We are members of the External Review Panel for ECLIPS. Whoa! Even though it’s oh-so-tempting to try, you don’t need the perfect string of words to define “systems-oriented evaluation.” Lesson Learned: It’s in the roots of evaluation  At its core a …

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