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DUP Week: Accessible Evaluation Techniques with June Gothberg

6 Comments / Advocacy and Policy Change, Arts, Culture, and Museums, Design and Analysis of Experiments, Disabilities and Underrepresented Populations, Evaluation Use / September 2, 2017

Greetings, I am June Gothberg, Ph.D. from Western Michigan University, Chair of the Disabilities and Underrepresented Populations TIG and co-author of the Universal Design for Evaluation Checklist (4th ed.).   Historically, our TIG has been a ‘working’ TIG, working collaboratively with AEA and the field to build capacity for accessible and inclusive evaluation.  Several terms tend to …

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DUP Week: Involving Families in the Data with Sondra Stegenga

7 Comments / Disabilities and Underrepresented Populations, Youth Focused Evaluation / July 30, 2017

I’m Sondra Stegenga, an occupational therapist, home visitor, educational administrator, and Ph.D. student at the University of Oregon.  Evidence has shown that meaningful family involvement is key to long-term outcomes for children. In early intervention and early childhood (EC) systems we are charged with basing services, supports, and goals on family needs and priorities. Given …

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DUP Week: Using Single Subjects Methodology in Program Evaluation by Brian Molina

1 Comment / Design and Analysis of Experiments, Disabilities and Underrepresented Populations, Youth Focused Evaluation / July 30, 2017

Greetings, I am Brian Molina, a graduate student at in Western Michigan University’s Industrial/Organizational Behavior Management doctoral program. I have conducted single subject research and implemented performance improvement projects across many different settings and organizations. Lessons Learned: Single subject research is used to evaluate program effectiveness across large groups. The belief that single subject research …

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DUP Week: Skyrocketing Your Accessibility by Caitlyn A. Bukaty

3 Comments / Disabilities and Underrepresented Populations / July 30, 2017

Greetings! Caitlyn A. Bukaty here sharing some exciting insights with you during Disabilities and Underrepresented Populations Topical Interest Group week. Today I want to offer a few ideas my fellow evaluators might find helpful in making their evaluations more accessible to a wide range of stakeholders. This information comes from my experience collecting feedback from …

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DUP Week: Using Technology to Create an Inclusive Meeting Environment with Della Thomas and Marcia Kolvitz

Leave a Comment / Disabilities and Underrepresented Populations / July 30, 2017

Greetings! We are Della Thomas and Marcia Kolvitz. Della works with local school districts to providing language access services to students who are deaf or hard of hearing. Marcia is an educational consultant who focuses on professional development in the areas of transition planning and postsecondary opportunities for students and youth who are deaf or …

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DUP Week: What’s in a Name? with June Gothberg and Caitlyn Bukaty

1 Comment / Disabilities and Underrepresented Populations, Government Evaluation / July 30, 2017

Greetings and welcome from the Disabilities and Underrepresented Populations TIG week.  We are June Gothberg, Chair and Caitlyn Bukaty, Program Chair.  This week we have a strong line up of great resources, tips, and lessons learned for engaging typically underrepresented population in evaluation efforts. You might have noticed that we changed our name from Disabilities …

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DOVP Week: June Gothberg on Involving Vulnerable Populations in Evaluation and Research

3 Comments / Disabilities and Underrepresented Populations, Indigenous Peoples in Evaluation, Multiethnic Issues in Evaluation / August 23, 2013

Greetings, I am June Gothberg, incoming Director of the Michigan Transition Outcomes Project and past co-chair of the Disabilities and Other Vulnerable Populations topical interest group at AEA.  I hope you’ve enjoyed a great week of information specific to projects involving these populations.  As a wrap up I thought I’d end with broad information on …

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DOVP Week: Anne Chamberlain on Logging your Evaluation Moves

Leave a Comment / Data Visualization and Reporting, Disabilities and Underrepresented Populations / August 22, 2013

I am Anne Chamberlain, and I am a Senior Research Associate at IMPAQ International, a rapidly-growing social-science research and evaluation firm serving clients in the areas of health; labor and human services; education; survey research; and international development. Recently we have been broadening our experience in researching barriers faced by people with disabilities (PWD), and …

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DOVP Week: Nivedita Ranade and Tom McKlin on The Importance of Nurturing in Mentoring Students with Disabilities (SwD)

1 Comment / Disabilities and Underrepresented Populations / August 21, 2013

Hi! This is Nivedita Ranade and Tom McKlin with The Findings Group.  We are evaluating two federal-level grants that provide mentoring to students with disabilities.  These mentoring relationships are critical to program success because the students see the mentor as their primary source of support.  The program administrators qualified these relationships as “nurturing” because the …

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DOVP Week: Jennifer Sullivan Sulewski on Data Sources for Tracking Outcomes of People with and without Disabilities

Leave a Comment / Disabilities and Underrepresented Populations / August 20, 2013

My name is Jennifer Sullivan Sulewski and I am a Research Associate at the Institute for Community Inclusion (ICI), University of Massachusetts Boston and past co-chair of AEA’s Disabilities and Other Vulnerable Populations (DOVP) TIG. At ICI, we do a lot of work involving analysis of publicly available datasets to determine outcomes and trends for …

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