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 …
Harlan Luxenberg on When to Use a Database Solution instead of Excel Read More »
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 »
I’m Paul Bakker, the founder and lead consultant of Social Impact Squared. I help agencies with a social purpose understand, measure, communicate, and improve their outcomes. One of the services I provide is data analysis, so I deal with statistical significance quite a lot. Hot Tip: Abandon the 95% rule. In statistics classes, they teach you to …
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I am Susan Kistler, the American Evaluation Association’s Executive Director and aea365’s regular Saturday contributor. Last week, at the Minnesota Evaluation Studies Institute, we had a discussion about when to use derived variables. Lessons Learned – What is a derived variable? Derived variables are variables that are computed based on other variables. We began by …
Susan Kistler on Derived Variables and AEA Member Density by State Read More »
Hello! We are Johanna Morariu, Kat Athanasiades, and Ann Emery from Innovation Network. For 20 years, Innovation Network has helped nonprofits and foundations evaluate and learn from their work. In 2010, Innovation Network set out to answer a question that was previously unaddressed in the evaluation field—what is the state of nonprofit evaluation practice and …
