Research, Technology and Development Evaluation

I’m Ian Hutchins, and I am an Assistant Professor of Data and Information Science at the University of Wisconsin-Madison in the Information School. I use quantitative analysis of information networks to find ways to improve the research enterprise and accelerate biomedical research advances. Research evaluations, like those conducted for science funding agencies in policymaking, are entering …

RTD TIG Week: Augmenting Expert Opinion with Data-driven Approaches by Ian Hutchins Read More »

Hi, everyone. This is Bethany Laursen, independent consultant with Laursen Evaluation & Design, LLC, and Assistant Dean in the Graduate School at Michigan State University; Nicole Motzer, Director of Research Development at Montana State University; and Kelly Anderson, Research Scientist at the National Institute of Standards & Technology. Interdisciplinarity (ID) is all the rage in …

RTD TIG Week: Evaluating Interdisciplinarity by Bethany Laursen, Nicole Motzer, and Kelly Anderson Read More »

I’m Paula Fearon, Co-Founder of the Analytics Research Institute, and together with my colleagues Heather Eshleman, Ami Shah, and Leigh Firestone Brooks, we are pleased to kick-off the RTD TIG week on AEA 365. Our day-to-day work involves producing a myriad of analyses using all types of datasets. To ensure our work is both high …

RTD TIG Week: Promoting Rigor and Reproducibility in Your Day-to-Day Work by Paula Fearon, Heather Eshleman, Ami Shah, and Leigh Firestone Brooks Read More »

I have said it before, and it is worth saying again. Especially now.  Every single one of us is biased.  My name is Didi Cross, and I have been involved in science evaluation for nearly ten years, including supporting the NIH and NSF in the United States, and funders and universities in the EU, UK, …

RTD TIG Week: Bias – It’s Still Here by Didi Cross Read More »

My name is Jodi Basner and I’m a Scientific Analyst on Clarivate’s Web of Science Consulting Team. It is exciting to be involved in a time, although unfortunately most recently born out of the COVID-19 pandemic, when research is exhibiting a dramatic shift toward enabling collaborations; directly through researchers providing complementary perspectives to a common …

RTD TIG Week: Evaluation of Research Collaborations Enabled through Linked Datasets by Jodi Basner Read More »

Hello! I am Asher Beckwitt, Research and Evaluation Project Director with Ripple Effect, and I have expertise in qualitative methods including interviews, focus groups, and content analysis. Hi! I am Alexis (Lex) Helsel, Lead Program Evaluator with Ripple Effect, and I have extensive experience in quantitative methods including survey design and analysis, administrative data analyses, …

RTD TIG Week: Triangulation Across Mixed Methods in Comprehensive Program Evaluations by Asher Beckwitt and Lex Helsel Read More »

Hi, my name is Gavin Reddick and I am the program co-chair for the Research, Technology, and Development TIG. I am the chief analyst for Researchfish, a company that helps organisations to understand the outputs, outcomes and impact of their research. As a result of this I spend a lot of time looking at, and …

RTD TIG Week: Finding a Needle in a Stack of Needles by Gavin Reddick Read More »

I’m Gretchen Jordan, a long-time advocate of logic modeling. I do logic models on weekends for fun. My almost 30 years of work as an evaluator of government-funded science, technology, and innovation programs has convinced me that the big questions we are asked to answer require us to move toward use of agreed upon logical …

RTD TIG Week: Synthesis Across Copy Cat Studies Helps Answer Really Big Policy Questions by Gretchen Jordan Read More »

My name is Josh Schnell and I am co-chair of the Research Technology & Development (RTD) Evaluation Topical Interest Group (TIG) within AEA.  I have been working in RTD evaluation and research assessment for over 12 years, now as director of the Academic & Government Consulting team within the Science Group at Clarivate.   As I …

RTD TIG Week: AEA Involvement is More Important than Ever by Josh Schnell Read More »

Hello! I am Yaw Agyeman, Program Manager at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. I am joined by my writing partner Kezia Dinelt, Presidential Management Fellow at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE), to share how EERE developed and institutionalized a rigorous evaluation practice to quantify the impacts of …

RTD TIG Week: A Dedicated Path to Building Evaluation Capacity in a Federal Agency by Yaw Agyeman and Kezia Dinelt Read More »