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Large Scale Eval Week: Qiong Louie-Gao and Humberto Reynoso-Vallejo on the Use of Predictive Modeling in Creating Baseline for Longitudinal Projects with Large Amounts of Data

Hello, we are Qiong Louie-Gao and Humberto Reynoso-Vallejo, members of the research team evaluating Chapter 224, the Health Care Cost Containment Law, from the Office of the State Auditor in Massachusetts. In order to implement a comprehensive evaluation on the impact of Chapter 224, our research team is committed to find the most effective statistical …

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Large Scale Eval Week: Humberto Reynoso-Vallejo and Qiong Louie-Gao on Using Interrupted Time-Series to Investigate the Effect of policy Changes on Population Outcomes

Hi, we are Humberto Reynoso-Vallejo and Qiong Louie-Gao, members of the research team evaluating the Health Care Cost Containment Law (Chapter 224 of the Acts of 2012) from the Office of the State Auditor in Massachusetts. A strategy that has been used successfully to investigate the effect of policy changes over time on population outcomes …

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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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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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