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Gisele Tchamba on Learning the Difference between Evaluation and Research

4 Comments / Graduate Student and New Evaluators / February 2, 2013

Hello, I am Gisele Tchamba, a PhD candidate in the Interdisciplinary PhD in Evaluation program (IDPE) at Western Michigan University. During the three years I spent in this program I came to understand that knowing the difference between evaluation and research matters. I found myself defining evaluation and explaining the difference to people in various …

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Jennifer Coyle on Creating Presentations Potent for those with Hearing Loss or Hearing Aids

3 Comments / Data Visualization and Reporting, Disabilities and Underrepresented Populations / July 30, 2012

Hello, I am Jennifer Coyle, Research Associate at Western Michigan University and Technical Assistance Coordinator for the National Secondary Technical Assistance Center. Due to the number of emails and comments on yesterday’s post, this is a follow up to Creating Presentations Potent for All with tips specific to presenting to people who may have hearing …

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June Gothberg on Creating Presentations Potent for All

11 Comments / Data Visualization and Reporting, Disabilities and Underrepresented Populations / July 26, 2012

Greetings, I am June Gothberg and assisting with AEA’s Potent Presentations Initiative (p2i). Today, I want to share with you how to design presentations for all audience members. It is important that presentations are readable, navigable, and understandable. Lesson Learned: Your audience is likely to be diverse. The World Health Organization (WHO) estimates: 7-8% of …

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Humberto Reynoso-Vallejo on Multicultural Processes in Evaluation

Leave a Comment / Disabilities and Underrepresented Populations, Indigenous Peoples in Evaluation, International and Cross-cultural Evaluation, Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgender Issues, Multiethnic Issues in Evaluation / July 26, 2012

I am Humberto Reynoso-Vallejo a Director for Program Evaluation with the Center for Health Policy and Research at the University of Massachusetts Medical School. Conducting evaluation entails the incorporation of multicultural features of individuals and/or organizations into the process of data collection and analysis. These multicultural features are socially constructed and are translated into layers …

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SWB Week: Jim Cochran on Statistics Without Borders Statistical Capacity Building Efforts

Leave a Comment / Disabilities and Underrepresented Populations, Health Evaluation, International and Cross-cultural Evaluation / July 12, 2012

Hi! I am Jim Cochran, co-founder and the Past Chair of Statistics Without Borders (SWB). SWB’s vision is to achieve better statistical practice, including statistical analysis and design of experiments and surveys, so that international health projects and initiatives are delivered more effectively and efficiently. Lessons Learned: Cultural competence is crucial. As Dominica McBride blogged …

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SWB Week: Cindy Weng, Chris Barker, and Larry George on Survival Analysis using Current Status Data

Leave a Comment / International and Cross-cultural Evaluation, Quantitative Methods: Theory and Design / July 12, 2012

Greetings, I am Cindy Weng, a bio-statistician II employed at Pediatrics Research Enterprise at Department of Pediatrics at the University of Utah. This post was written together with my colleagues Chris Barker, SWB project manager and Larry George, statistician at Problem Solving Tools. I learned about this methodology through a project assigned by ASA Statistics …

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SWB Week: Mark Griffin on Preparing to Work in a Developing Country

1 Comment / Collaborative, Participatory and Empowerment Evaluation, International and Cross-cultural Evaluation / July 12, 2012

Greetings I am Mark Griffin. At the time of writing this article I am fortunate enough to be in the middle of a world trip. Key events of my trip: last week I was in Fiji chairing the Pacific Conference for Statistics and Information Systems, my third trip to Fiji, with a rapidly developing workshop …

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SWB Week: Mary Gray on the Rwandan Prison Survey

Leave a Comment / International and Cross-cultural Evaluation / July 9, 2012

Greetings I am Mary Gray from the American University in Washington, D.C. and a member of Statistics Without Borders. Recently, I was involved in surveying Rwandan prisoners. Lessons Learned: Sample the appropriate stakeholders. Two years after the genocide that killed 800,000 Rwandans, primarily Tutsis, there were 80,00-90,000 imprisoned in a country of a few million …

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SWB Week: David Fitch on Efficiency in the Evaluation of Experimental Village Health Programs

1 Comment / Health Evaluation, International and Cross-cultural Evaluation / July 8, 2012

Greetings, I am David J. Fitch, IDIES, Universidad Rafael Landívar, Guatemala and a member of SWB. Learning Lessons: UNICEF estimates Cuban and US infant mortality (IM) rates are 6 and 8 per 1,000 live births, showing a better record for a very poor country than a very rich country. Other poor countries and countries giving …

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SWB Week: Gary Shapiro on Volunteering for Statistics Without Borders

1 Comment / Health Evaluation, International and Cross-cultural Evaluation / July 12, 2012

Greetings, I am Gary Shapiro, co-founder and current Chair of Statistics Without Borders (SWB). Recently, we started collaborating with the American Evaluation Association. This week aea365 will feature knowledge and resources from SWB members appropriate for professional evaluators. Tips: What is SWB? SWB is an  all-volunteer outreach group of the American Statistical Association. The group …

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