Hi there, Liz Zadnik here, bringing you another Saturday post focused on practitioner experiences and approaches. Today I’m going to focus on a recent (and recurring) experience of getting others excited about evaluation and capturing information. It is a source of pride that many of my colleagues have said, “Liz, you bring such an enthusiasm …
Hi, Veronica Olazabal, with the Rockefeller Foundation here. Having worked in the international development sector for some time and driven by the belief that evaluation is a bridge to effective poverty solutions, assessment of integrated development programs is a passion of mine. At Nuru, a social venture that aims to eradicate poverty in remote rural …
I’m Wendy Tackett, the president of iEval, part-time faculty at Western Michigan University, and a blogger at Carpe Diem: Make Your Evaluations Useful. I want to share about a fun way we get our evaluation clients engaged in evaluation…we call it Camp iEval! The purpose of Camp iEval is to bring evaluation clients together who …
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I’m John Cosgrove, an evaluator who is committed to utilization-focused evaluation. I am currently working with community colleges around the country to improve evaluation efforts and the use of data for continuous improvement. Clients indicate they want evaluation and data to drive continuous improvement and decision-making. Although a good place to start, data collection alone …
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AEA365 Valuing Voices impact vs self-sustainability trade off submission – Hi, I am Jindra Cekan, PhD of Valuing Voices at Cekan Consulting LLC. I have been roaming around international development projects since 1988. Lesson Learned: What’s likely to ‘stand’ after we go? A new consideration in project design and evaluation Last spring I had the …
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Greetings! I’m Sara Vaca, independent consultant at EvalQuality.com and Creative Advisor of this blog. I started with this post (link) observing where and how evaluation can use a dash of creativity, and now I’m going to share my experience using creativity to better understand evaluation. After my first AEA conference in Washington D.C. (October 2013), …
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Happy Pi Day! I’m Sheila B Robinson, aea365’s Lead Curator and sometimes Saturday contributor. If you had an internet browser open to this site today, 3.14.15 at precisely 9:26:53 am (EST) looking for today’s post to be about Pi Day, then you probably know that today is a particularly prodigious Pi Day as we have …
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Hello, we are Qiong Louie-Gao and Humberto Reynoso-Vallejo, members of the research team evaluating Chapter 224, the Health Care Cost Containment Law, from the Office of the State Auditor in Massachusetts. In order to implement a comprehensive evaluation on the impact of Chapter 224, our research team is committed to find the most effective statistical …
Hi, we are Humberto Reynoso-Vallejo and Qiong Louie-Gao, members of the research team evaluating the Health Care Cost Containment Law (Chapter 224 of the Acts of 2012) from the Office of the State Auditor in Massachusetts. A strategy that has been used successfully to investigate the effect of policy changes over time on population outcomes …
Hello, Erin M. Liang, Mark M. Holske, and Humberto Reynoso-Vallejo here, members of the research team evaluating the Health Care Cost Containment law (Chapter 224) from the Office of the State Auditor. Using administrative data with a significant number of missing key variables (e.g. race/ethnicity) can be challenging in trying to answer specific evaluation questions. …
