Welcome to the Evaluation 2013 Conference Local Arrangements Working Group (LAWG) week on aea365. I am Joseph Gasper, and I am a Senior Study Director with Westat, an employee-owned research corporation in Rockville, Maryland. Westat was hired by New York City’s Center for Economic Opportunity (CEO) to evaluate approximately 35 programs to move economically disadvantaged …
Hi, fellow evaluators! I’m Jess Chandler, a consultant at Energy Market Innovations, a small firm primarily focused on energy efficiency and renewable energy program evaluation. Rad Resource – jessachandler.com: This blog is a combination of several voices of me, from personal concerns to evaluation methods. The content here has adapted over time and has only …
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Hi, I’m Stacy Johnson, Senior Research Analyst at the Improve Group a national and international evaluation consulting organization based in Saint Paul, MN. The Improve Group works with organizations to make the most of information, navigate complexity and ensure their investments of time and money lead to meaningful, sustained impact. This past October at Evaluation …
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Hello! My name is Alex (Chi-Keung) Chan and I am currently a Senior Lecturer at the Hong Kong Shue Yan University and a partner of A Data-Driven Consulting Group, LLP based in Minnesota. Prior to that, I was a Senior Evaluation and Research Fellow at the Minneapolis Public Schools. I have been adopting the value-added …
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My name is Lindsay Demers. I am an evaluator and quantitative methodologist at TERC in Cambridge, MA. I have worked as the lead data analyst on several projects at TERC, Lesley University, Boston College and Brandeis University. Hot Tip: You must calculate inter-rater reliability! Calculating inter-rater reliability (IRR) is of the utmost importance when using …
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Greetings! We are Manuel Voelkle from the Max Planck Institute for Human Development in Berlin (Germany) and Han Oud from Radboud University in Nijmegen (The Netherlands). We are both interested in longitudinal data analysis and are trying to advance statistical methods for the analysis of change, as well as to improve their use and communication. …
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Hello aea365. My name is Carlen Erickson and I am a student learning the statistics program R! I want to share two resources I have found invaluable. Rad Resource: R is a free statistical software package for conducting analyses of quantitative data. It is a free competitor to SAS or SPSS. R can be downloaded …
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Greetings, I am Cindy Weng, a bio-statistician II employed at Pediatrics Research Enterprise at Department of Pediatrics at the University of Utah. This post was written together with my colleagues Chris Barker, SWB project manager and Larry George, statistician at Problem Solving Tools. I learned about this methodology through a project assigned by ASA Statistics …
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 …
Hello! My name is Tina Phillips and I am the evaluation program manager at the Cornell Lab of Ornithology. I lead an NSF-funded project called DEVISE (Developing, Validating and Implementing Situated Evaluations), which is aimed at providing practitioners and evaluators with tools to assess individual learning outcomes from citizen science, or public participation in scientific …
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