We are Viengsavanh Sanaphane and Katie Moore from Catholic Relief Services. We are working on an Inclusive Education (IE) project in Southeast Asia. Currently, IE efforts are expanding. Experienced partners that have worked on IE for years in the local context were planning to share qualitative data about their project with stakeholders new to the …
We are Linda Cabral and Laura Sefton from the University of Massachusetts Medical School’s Center for Health Policy and Research, and part of the PCMHI Evaluation Team whose work is being described all week. We want to share our team’s experience of being participant observers at ‘learning sessions’ and how it’s helped our overall multi-modal …
We are Linda Cabral and Judy Savageau from the University of Massachusetts Medical School’s Center for Health Policy and Research. All of our projects involve some type of data collection, sometimes in the form of a survey. In order to get high quality survey data, you need to ensure that your respondents are interpreting questions …
Shirah Hecht here again, with a second method to move qualitative data efficiently from analysis to presentation using common desktop software. Outline mode in Microsoft Word allows you to place text under headers and sub-headers that can be expanded, collapsed, and re-ordered – taking all of the text, when you move a header. With this …
I am Shirah Hecht and am an independent researcher and non-profit program evaluator. Qualitative data can be overwhelming, and challenging to reach valid conclusions. Here is the first of two methods to move qualitative data efficiently from analysis to presentation using common desktop software. Excel’s Pivot tables lets you flexibly create subgroups and report standard …
I am Lisa R. Holliday, an Evaluation Associate at The Evaluation Group in Columbia, SC. I was on an evaluation team that recently completed a needs assessment in a large rural school district. On one survey, there were 3,277 student responses to two open-ended questions. Initially, I planned to take a sample, rather than analyze …
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Hello! I am Bob Kahle and I have operated Kahle Research Solutions for nearly 20 years. I am a program evaluator and specialist in employing qualitative methods. I have written and trained extensively on managing difficult behaviors in groups (see Dominators, Cynics, and Wallflowers: Practical Strategies to Moderate Meaningful Focus Groups), but more recently have …
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Hello, we are Sheila Matano and Dani O’Neill from Carson Research Consulting (CRC). We at CRC are currently in the process of conducting a survey on relocation and housing stability. Although surveys are an incredibly useful method for gathering quantitative information from large populations, response rates vary widely. In order to promote our project, interact …
My name is Soledad Muñiz and I’m the Head of PV M&E at InsightShare. Susan has kindly introduced our work and methodology in this post some weeks ago. And as she anticipated, I’m here today to share some of our experiences using Participatory Video for Monitoring & Evaluation (PV M&E). Lessons Learned – how we’re …
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Hi there. I’m Corey Newhouse, the Founder and Principal of Public Profit, based in Oakland, California. We help public service organizations measure and manage what matters. Lessons Learned – how we’re using video: Public Profit uses video in our evaluation of the Partnerships for Learning (PFL) initiative of the National Equity Project. We use video …
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