Mixed Methods Evaluation

FIE/MME Week: Donna Podems on Applying Feminist Evaluation for Non-feminist Evaluators

Hello, I am Donna Podems, founder and director of OtherWISE: Research and Evaluation, a small monitoring and evaluation firm in Cape Town, South Africa.  We work with a wide range of international and local donors who fund a wide variety of technical interventions in areas such as environment, education, health, community development and human rights. …

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FIE/MME Week: Donna Mertens and Mika Yamashita on Co-hosting Mixed Methods Evaluation and Feminist Issues in Evaluation

Hello!  We are Donna Mertens and Mika Yamashita, Chair and Program Chair of Mixed Methods Evaluation TIG.  This week, we offer five posts written by Feminist Issues in Evaluation TIG members. Why is the Mixed Methods TIG co-hosting this week with the Feminist Issues in Evaluation TIG?  Because this week’s posts touch upon issues associated …

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Allan Porowski and Heather Clawson on Conducting Evaluation with At-Risk Youth

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 a 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 …

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Allan Porowski and Heather Clawson on Conducting a Large-Scale, Mixed-Method Evaluation of a Dropout Prevention Program

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 …

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MME Week: Terri Anderson on Using Best Practices for Mixed Methods Research in Evaluation

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 …

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MME Week: Hongling Sun on Mixed Methods Design

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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MME Week: Kristy Moster and Jan Matulis on Pulling It All Together: Creating a Strategy to Transform the Complex to the Coherent

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 …

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MME Week: Leanne Kallemeyn , Daniela Schiazza, and Ann Marie Ryan on Using Mixed Methods to Conduct Integrated Data Analysis

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 …

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MME Week: Tayo Fabusuyi and Tori Hill on the Evaluation of a Minority Leadership Program

We are Tayo Fabusuyi and Tori Hill, Lead Strategist and Research Scientist respectively of Numeritics, a research and consulting firm based in Pittsburgh, PA. We conducted an evaluation of the Black Male Leadership Development Institute (BMLDI), a year-long program in Western Pennsylvania for high-school aged African American males. The BMLDI is designed to give participants …

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MME Week: Mika Yamashita on Mixed Methods Evaluation TIG Week

My name is Mika Yamashita, a program chair of the Mixed Methods Evaluation Topical Interest Group (TIG).  The Mixed Methods Evaluation TIG was founded in 2010 to be a space for members to “examine the use of mixed methods evaluation through reflective analysis of philosophy, theory and methodology that is developing in the field of …

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