My name is Käri Greene and I’m a Senior Research Analyst at Program Design & Evaluation Services, an intergovernmental agency for the Oregon Public Health Division and Multnomah County Health Department. I first started using software with qualitative data analysis back when the main QSR product was called NUD*IST. And I’ll admit – I got …
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My name is Christine Paulsen and I own Concord Evaluation Group. We evaluate media and technology-based initiatives. We regularly integrate usability testing with program evaluation to provide our clients with a more comprehensive picture of how their technologies and initiatives are performing. As evaluators, you know that many of the programs that we evaluate today …
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My name is Corey Newhouse and I’m the Founder and Principal of Public Profit. We help youth service and educational organizations measure and manage what matters. I’m a self-taught user of video in evaluation, and am writing to share some of my lessons learned. We have incorporated video into our evaluation studies for the last …
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I’m Dominica McBride, President of The HELP Institute, Inc., a nonprofit organization that uses program evaluation to strengthen programs in impoverished communities. I’m Rita Fierro, owner of Fierro Consulting. I specialize in building organizations and communities by inspiring genuine relationships, shared decisions, and growing results. I’m Pauline Brooks, Independent Consultant specializing in social determinants. The …
I am Jeff Wasbes, a Senior Researcher and Project manager with Research Works, Inc., an independent evaluation consulting firm. A simple and functionally useful tool for diagramming systems is the Causal Loop Diagram (CLD). CLDs have been applied in nearly every conceivable discipline because by just using some very basic elements, one can describe the …
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Greetings to all! We are Tysza Gandha and Katherine Ryan from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. With our colleagues at the Illinois Assessment and Accountability Project, we have been evaluating policy consequences. Like many evaluators, we rely on focus groups to gain a deeper and richer understanding of people’s experiences and perspectives in a …
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Greetings all! I am Agata Jose-Ivanina and I am a Senior Associate with ICF International, a research and evaluation firm headquartered near Washington, DC. As the budget debate has been heating up and educational agencies have to make hard choices, we have seen an increased demand to include a cost component as part of program …
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Greetings from the Midwest! We are Jenell Holstead (University of Wisconsin-Green Bay) and Mindy Hightower King (Indiana University). For the past eight years, we have evaluated 21st Century Community Learning after school programs both at the local level, as well as statewide initiatives in Indiana and Kentucky. This post discusses best practices for evaluating out-of-school …
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Greetings from Champaign, IL! We are Ayesha Boyce, Maria Jimenez, and Gabriela Juarez. We are all currently pursuing our Ph.D. in evaluation at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. We have found as a multicultural evaluation team that sometimes sensitive topics such as race, class and gender are best presented through creative means. These types of …
My name is Dianne Hofner Saphiere and I am Founder and Principal at Cultural Detective®. We are a team of international professionals who collaborate to produce practical tools that use a theoretically grounded, proven process for enhancing intercultural competence. At Evaluation 2011 I’ll be facilitating a session entitled “Interculturally Competent Evaluation,” so I appreciate this …
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