Did we get your attention? We hope so. We are Carla Hillerns and Pei-Pei Lei – survey enthusiasts at the Office of Survey Research at the University of Massachusetts Medical School. An email subject line can be a powerful first impression of an online survey. It has the potential to convince someone to open your …
Hi! We are M. H. Clark and Haiyan Bai from the University of Central Florida in Orlando, Florida. Over the last several years propensity score adjustments (PSAs) have become increasingly popular; however, many evaluators are unsure of when to use them. A propensity score is the predicted probability of a participant selecting into a treatment …
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Hello! My name is Amber Hill and I am a research specialist at McREL International’s Denver, Colorado office. My work focuses on education research and my responsibilities include managing online surveys administered to state departments of education, districts, school staff, parents, and students in the United States, Pacific region, and Australia. Encouraging online survey participation …
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Hi! This is Andrea Crews-Brown, Tom McKlin, and Brandi Villa with SageFox Consulting Group, a privately owned evaluation firm with offices in Amherst, MA and Atlanta, GA, and Shelly Engelman with the School District of Philadelphia. Today we’d like to share results of a recent survey analysis. Lessons Learned: Retrospective vs. Traditional Surveying Evaluators typically implement …
Hi, I’m Harlan Luxenberg from Professional Data Analysts, Inc., a public he alth evaluation firm in Minneapolis, and I’d like to share some thoughts about certain situations where databases may be more useful than Microsoft Excel. Excel is great for quickly crunching data and managing small datasets; however, using Excel in the wrong situations can …
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Howdy! I’m Ann Gillard, Ph.D., Director of Research and Evaluation at The Hole in the Wall Gang Camp, located in Ashford, CT. The Hole in the Wall Gang Camp was founded by Paul Newman in 1988 and serves children and families in our region who are living with serious and life-threatening illnesses through summer camp, …
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I’m Steve Young, a recent evaluation post-doctoral fellow at the Center for Creative Leadership (CCL) in Greensboro, NC. Currently, I work at Design Interactive in Oveido, FL. Have you ever thought about how you could make evaluation surveys more “catchy?” Rad Resource: Read “Contagious” by Jonah Berger which offers some research-based tips for how anyone …
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Hello! We are Silvana Bialosiewicz and Kelly Murphy from Claremont Graduate University. Working as Senior Research Associates at the Claremont Evaluation Center, we have often been tasked with analyzing large quantitative databases and drawing conclusions about program effectiveness based on our results. Today, we’d like to share some hot tips about pesky sources of bias …
Silvana Bialosiewicz and Kelly Murphy on Do your measures measure up? Read More »
Hello! I’m Kathy McKnight, Principal Director of Research, Center for Educator Effectiveness at Pearson. Today I completed my annual 2-day introductory workshop on Quantitative Methods, which I’ve offered at AEA’s annual conference every year since….well, I’ve lost track. Over the years, I’ve observed a lot of evaluators who participate in my workshop, hungry to learn …
Greetings fellow evaluators! My name is Johanna Morariu and I’m a Director of Innovation Network, a nonprofit consulting firm that builds the evaluation capacity of nonprofit organizations and foundations. I’m also the co-chair of the Data Visualization & Reporting (DVR) Topical Interest Group (TIG) along with Amy Germuth, Stuart Henderson, and David Shellard and the …
DVR Week: Johanna Morariu on a DataViz Technique New to aea365 – Treemaps Read More »
