Greetings from Kentucky, the land of national basketball championships. My name is Vanessa Prier Jackson and I a professor of retailing in the School of Human Environmental Sciences in the department of Merchandising Apparel and Textiles at the University of Kentucky. For the last three years I have become very interested in qualitative research in …
Hello! We’re Allan Porowski from ICF International and Heather Clawson from Communities In Schools (CIS). We completed a five-year, comprehensive, mixed-method evaluation of CIS, which featured several study components – including three student-level randomized controlled trials; a school-level quasi-experimental study; eight case studies; a natural variation study to identify what factors distinguished the most successful …
Hello! I am Crystal Hurd, a K-12 educator and an adjunct professor at East Tennessee State University and Northeast State Community College. Last year, I embarked on an unorthodox dissertation topic: Transformational Leadership in the Life and Works of C.S. Lewis. No one had ever applied leadership theory to Lewis. In response, many replied, the …
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My name is Xiaomei Song, a PhD Candidate in Assessment and Evaluation, Queen’s University, Kingston, Canada. In the past four years, I have been working on my doctoral degree and a part of my dissertation is to evaluate a large-scale high-stakes testing system from the stakeholder perspective. I have learned a number of lessons along …
I am Dana Harley, an Assistant Professor at Northern Kentucky University. I specialize in child and adolescent mental health and developmental issues, with a focus on participatory action research methods such as, “photovoice.” Photovoice is a cutting edge research method aimed at uncovering issues, concerns, constructs, or real-life experiences of those who have historically been …
My name is Kylie Hutchinson. I am an independent evaluation consultant and trainer with Community Solutions Planning & Evaluation. I give regular webinars and workshops on evaluation topics for the AEA and CES and Twitter weekly at @EvaluationMaven. Like all of you, I try to be conscientious about conducting the best evaluation possible. But for …
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Hello! I’m Terri Anderson, Director for Evaluation at the University of Massachusetts Medical School’s (UMMS) Center for Health Policy and Research. I want to share our evaluation team’s experience using the National Institute of Health’s guide, Best Practices for Mixed Methods Research in the Health Sciences, to understand an unexpected evaluation result. When combining survey …
Hello, my name is Hongling Sun. I am a PhD student from University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. I feel honored to have this opportunity to share my mixed methods experience with you, with a focus on the lessons and tips I’ve learned through constructing a mixed methods design for a needs assessment study. That design …
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Hi, we’re Kristy Moster and Jan Matulis. We’re evaluation specialists in the Education and Organizational Effectiveness Department at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center. Over the past year, our team has been engaged in the analysis of data from a three-year project with the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation focused on quality improvement training in healthcare. The …
Our evaluation team from Loyola University Chicago, School of Education–Leanne Kallemeyn, Assistant Professor; Daniela Schiazza, doctoral candidate and project coordinator; and Ann Marie Ryan, Associate Professor–have been working on an external evaluation of a U.S. Department of Education Teaching American History grant. For two years, we used mixed methods to report GPRA indicators—surveys, tests, tracking …
