March 2015 – Page 3

Large Scale Eval Week: Erin M. Liang, Mark M. Holske, and Humberto Reynoso-Vallejo on Using GIS Maps Based on Census Data as a Proxy for Race/Ethnicity and Other Missing Variables When Using Administrative Data

Leave a Comment / Uncategorized / March 11, 2015 March 7, 2015

Hello, Erin M. Liang, Mark M. Holske, and Humberto Reynoso-Vallejo here, members of the research team evaluating the Health Care Cost Containment law (Chapter 224) from the Office of the State Auditor. Using administrative data with a significant number of missing key variables (e.g. race/ethnicity) can be challenging in trying to answer specific evaluation questions. …

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Large Scale Eval Week: Erin M. Liang and Mark M. Holske on Strategies for Securing Data for Large and Complex Evaluation Projects

Leave a Comment / Uncategorized / March 10, 2015 March 7, 2015

Hello – Erin M. Liang and Mark M. Holske here, members of the research team evaluating the Health Care Cost Containment Law (Chapter 224) from the Office of the State Auditor in Massachusetts. Large evaluation projects dealing with complex research questions may require several sources of data. Securing data becomes one of the most important and …

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Large Scale Eval Week: Humberto Reynoso-Vallejo on Using Mixed-Methods for Complex Evaluations of State Law Initiatives

Leave a Comment / Uncategorized / March 9, 2015 March 7, 2015

Hello, I am Humberto Reynoso-Vallejo principal investigator evaluating the Health Care Cost Containment Law (Chapter 224 of the Acts of 2012) from the Office of the State Auditor in Massachusetts. In order to capture the broad perspectives of key stakeholders and integrate them with the quantitative analysis, we developed a longitudinal mixed-methods quasi-experimental design for …

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Large Scale Eval Week: Humberto Reynoso-Vallejo on Developing an Evaluation Plan for Large and Complex Projects

Leave a Comment / Uncategorized / March 8, 2015 March 7, 2015

I am Humberto Reynoso-Vallejo, Director of Research and Policy for the Office of the State Auditor in Massachusetts. This week the research team will share a series of useful tips for evaluating large and complex projects using our work evaluating the Health Care Cost Containment Law in Massachusetts known as Chapter 224. Chapter 224 is …

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Sheila B Robinson on Becoming a Sponsored Week Volunteer Curator

Leave a Comment / Uncategorized / March 7, 2015 March 7, 2015

Hello evaluators and blog enthusiasts! I’m Sheila B Robinson, aea365’s Lead Curator and sometimes Saturday contributor. As you may realize, curating a daily blog is a big job! I owe a lot to the many sponsored week volunteer curators who take on the task of shepherding authors and conducting first round checks and edits of …

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Developmental Eval Week: Ricardo Wilson-Grau on Outcome Harvesting as a Developmental Evaluation Inquiry Framework

Leave a Comment / Uncategorized / March 6, 2015 March 6, 2015

I am Ricardo Wilson-Grau, an evaluator based in Rio de Janeiro but working internationally. Increasingly, I am called upon to serve as a developmental evaluator, I have found the concept of “inquiry framework” (Chapter 8 in Developmental Evaluation[1]) to be invaluable for co-creating developmental evaluation questions and agreeing how they will be answered. As Michael …

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Developmental Eval Week: Charmagne Campbell-Patton on using Reflective Practice for Developmental Evaluation

1 Comment / Uncategorized / March 5, 2015 February 28, 2015

I’m Charmagne Campbell-Patton, Director of Organizational Learning and Evaluation for Utilization-Focused Evaluation based in Minnesota, and Evaluation & Assessment Specialist for World Savvy, a national education nonprofit that works with educators, schools, and districts to integrate global competence teaching and learning into K-12 classrooms. World Savvy has staff in Minneapolis, San Francisco, and New York City. We …

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Developmental Eval Week: Nora F. Murphy on Qualitative Data in Developmental Evaluation

Leave a Comment / Qualitative Methods / March 4, 2015 February 28, 2015

Hi, I’m Nora F. Murphy, a developmental evaluator and co-founder of TerraLuna Collaborative. Qualitative Methods have been a critical component of every developmental evaluation I have been a part of. Over the years I’ve learned a few tricks about making qualitative methods work in a developmental evaluation context. Hot Tip: Apply systems thinking. When using developmental evaluation …

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Developmental Eval Week: Nan Wehipeihana on Roles and Responsibilities in Developmental Evaluation

2 Comments / Uncategorized / March 3, 2015 February 28, 2015

I’m Nan Wehipeihana, a member of the Kinnect Group in New Zealand and co-editor of a forthcoming book on Developmental Evaluation Exemplars. I want to share what we have learned about roles and responsibilities in Developmental Evaluation (DE) by reviewing the reflective practice experiences of DE practitioners. Hot Tip: Understand the implications of DE being …

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Developmental Eval Week: Kate McKegg on Readiness for Developmental Evaluation

3 Comments / Uncategorized / March 2, 2015 February 28, 2015

I’m Kate McKegg, Director of The Knowledge Institute Ltd, member of the Kinnect Group, and co-editor of a forthcoming book on Developmental Evaluation Exemplars. I want to share what we have learned about readiness for developmental evaluation (DE) by reviewing the experiences of and lessons from DE practitioners. DE isn’t appropriate for every situation. So, …

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Month: March 2015