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2-for-1 Week: Emily Lauer and Courtney Dutra on Using Plain Language in Evaluation

Hello, we are Emily Lauer and Courtney Dutra from the University of Massachusetts Medical School’s Center for Developmental Disability Evaluation and Research (CDDER). As part of our work, we often evaluate programs and projects that support people with intellectual and developmental disabilities. In this post, we focus on “Plain Language” as a tool for increasing …

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2-for-1 Week: Sharron Corle and Krista Granger on Uniform Organizational Evaluation and Assessment

Hi! Sharron Corle, Associate Director for Workforce & Leadership Development and Krista Granger, Program Manager for Data & Assessment, on uniform organizational evaluation and assessment. We work for a small not-for-profit member association, the Association of Maternal & Child Health Programs (AMCHP), supporting maternal & child health professionals working in state public health agencies. Like …

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2-for-1 Week: Paul Bakker on Using Google Consumer Surveys for Evaluations

Hi, I’m Paul Bakker. I run an independent evaluation consultancy, Social Impact Squared.  As an independent consultant, I don’t have a call centre to conduct population based surveys. However, a colleague (Brian Cugleman of Alterspark) introduced me to Google Consumer Surveys. I would like to share with you my research and trials into how Google …

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2-for1 Week: Lisa R. Holliday on Data Cleaning and Fuzzy Matching

My name is Lisa R. Holliday, and I am a Data Architect with The Evaluation Group. Cleaning data is a large part of my job.  For studies that need to match participants’ names or IDs, it is critical to ensure that information is entered consistently from one data collection cycle to the next. However, depending …

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2-for-1 Week: Garry Lowry, Lynn Chaiken and Tamara Lamia on Evaluability Assessments of PHHS Block Grant and Other Flexible Funding Mechanisms and Opportunities

Hi—we are Garry Lowry from the Office for State, Tribal, Local and Territorial Support at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Lynn Chaiken from the Association of State and Territorial Health Officials, and Tamara Lamia from ICF International. We are part of a team that conducted a rapid eight-month evaluability assessment of the Preventive …

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2-for-1 Week: Tiffany Woelfel on Social Media and ethics: the data is there, but do we have the right to use it?

Hello fellow readers! I’m Tiffany Woelfel, MSW a graduate student in Public Health at the University of Washington with 15 years of research experience across a variety of fields. I am also the owner of Innovata Research Consulting where I do many things, including provide social media advice to nonprofits, government and healthcare organizations. I was …

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2-for-1 Week: Connie Viamonte onGet Connected! Embracing Technology in Evaluation

My name is Connie Viamonte and I am a Research and Evaluation Associate at Q-Q Research Consultants based out of Miami, Florida. Today I want to share some of our experiences utilizing new technologies. We’ve found that when we’re unafraid to try new things, technology is a valuable tool in the evaluation world. Most recently, …

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Liz Zadnik with her Fall Evaluation Reading List

Greetings! Liz Zadnik here, your trusty Outreach Coordinator and Saturday contributor.  This post celebrates some of my favorite things: reading, autumn, and…lists!    Rad Resources: A personal goal of mine as I strive to be more confident and comfortable with my evaluation skills, is to develop a reading list each season (or every few months). …

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CASNET Week: Frances Lawrenz, Amy Grack Nelson, and Marjorie Bequette on Coding Framework for Studying Complex Adaptive Systems

We are Frances Lawrenz and Amy Grack Nelson, University of Minnesota, and Marjorie Bequette, Science Museum of Minnesota (where Amy works, too). We are members of the Complex Adaptive Systems as a Model for Network Evaluations (CASNET) research team. When we started this project, complexity theory seemed exciting, but daunting. What is complexity theory, you …

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