I’m John Baek, Senior Education Evaluator at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and chair of the Integrating Technology in Evaluation (Tech) TIG. Along with Noah Goodman (Wednesday’s author), I’m curating this week’s AEA365 blogs from evaluators who are actively exploring the use of artificial intelligence tools as part of their evaluation practice. Tools like
My name is Sophia Guevara, MLIS, MPA. This post will focus on how to present the results of SNA in a way that goes beyond the report. Oftentimes, evaluation professionals are asked to study a program and/or a network with the results of the study often ending up in a large report. After an initial
My name is Sophia Guevara, MLIS, MPA. While conducting research for the Health Resources and Services Administration Maternal Child Health Bureau challenges, I came up with interesting research that provided information on how Social Network Analysis (SNA) is being used in healthcare. Here are four papers that I came across in my research that might
My name is Simon Geletta and I’m a professor in the Department of Public Health at Des Moines University. In most program evaluation programs that rely on quantitative data for evaluation, the focus of data preparation is for statistical analysis – not for social network analysis (SNA). Some scholars have highlighted the differences in the
Hello! I’m Gregory Phillips and I work with both the EDIT and CONNECT research programs at Northwestern University’s Institute for Sexual and Gender Minority Health and Wellbeing. Here at EDIT, we use evaluation, data integration, and technical assistance to foster a learning community to improve the health and wellbeing of LGBTQ+ populations in Chicago and
SNA TIG Week: An Introduction to Network Canvas by Gregory Phillips Read More »
Hello! My name is . I am an assistant professor at West Virginia University and part of the SNA TIG. In this post, I would simply like to discuss how the history of social networks impacted you. Cool Trick: Small Worlds In 1967, Stanley Milgram sent out 160 packages to random people in Omaha, Nebraska.
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Hi! I’m Maryann Durland and this week the Social Network Analysis (SNA) TIG will be posting. First SNA is frequently referred to as Network Analysis and Organizational Analysis, depending on the field of interest. These terms come out of the social sciences, particularly sociology, anthropology, economics, and other social science areas. In some cases, network
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Hi, I’m Barbara Klugman. I offer strategy support and conduct evaluations with social justice funders, NGOs, networks and leadership training institutions in South Africa and internationally. I practice utilization-focused evaluation, frequently using mixed methods including outcomes harvesting and Social Network Analysis (SNA). Rad Resource: For advocacy evaluation, SNA can help identify: how connected different types
Hello, Keiko Kuji-Shikatani (C.E., CES representative for EvalGender+) and Hur Hassnain (Pakistan Evaluation Association; Impact, Results and Learning Manager, Y Care International) here to share our thoughts on how to engage and collectively think about better evaluating learning and social accountability in FCV (fragility, conflict and violence). The World Bank estimates that by 2030, the
My name is Jeneen R. Garcia. I’ve been a full-time evaluator at the Independent Evaluation Office of the Global Environment Facility (GEF IEO) for the last seven years. The GEF is the largest multilateral funder of environmental programs worldwide. Because the programs we evaluate almost all take place in complex social-ecological systems, we constantly need
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