Hello, I am Rupu Gupta, Analyst at New Knowledge Organization Ltd., a research and evaluation think tank aiming to increase social knowledge, positive lived experiences, and ecological harmony. I am also a member of the AEA Public Statement on Cultural Competence Dissemination Working Group, and have had the opportunity to explore the ramifications of culture and the …
Hi, we are Wanda D. Casillas, Ph.D., University of Michigan, and Asma M. Ali from the American Society for Clinical Pathology in Chicago, IL. We have been thinking about interaction of culturally responsive evaluation and traditional research in our own evaluation work since we met as AEA-Duquesne GEDI Scholars in 2008-2009. In particular, we have …
Hi! We are Osman Özturgut and Lisa Aponte-Soto from the AEA Public Statement on Cultural Competence in Evaluation Dissemination Working Group. Ozturgut is an assistant professor of doctoral studies at the University of the Incarnate Word in San Antonio; and, Aponte-Soto serves as National Program Deputy Director of RWJF New Connections at OMG Center for …
Hello, we are Judy Nordberg and Nancy Harger, librarians at the Lamar Soutter Library, University of Massachusetts Medical School. So now you have some new ideas of where and how to find good information/data. But how can you manage all of it? Some of you may harken back to the “old days” of writing college …
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Hello! My name is Lisa Palmer. I’m a librarian in the Lamar Soutter Library at the University of Massachusetts Medical School. As my colleague Molly Higgins pointed out in her Top Ten Databases blog post earlier this week, PubMed is a key database to search for biomedical literature. The goal of this post is to …
Hello, my name is Len Levin and I am a librarian at the Lamar Soutter Library, University of Massachusetts Medical School. Using the databases and search tips outlined in the previous two posts for this week can go a long way to finding good information when conducting research and evaluation projects. But what happens when …
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Hi, my name is Martha Meacham, a librarian at the Lamar Soutter Library, University of Massachusetts Medical School. Searching for information is a treasure hunt. The words you use to construct your search can be the map. Librarians make excellent escorts for your explorations, but if you are venturing on your own, it pays to …
Hi, I’m Molly Higgins, a librarian at the Lamar Soutter Library, University of Massachusetts Medical School. Today we’re going to talk about planning your search because planning ahead saves a lot of work in the long run. One part of planning is choosing your database(s). Maybe you’re used to using Google for everything. Maybe you …
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We are Judy Savageau and Laura Sefton from the University of Massachusetts Medical School’s Center for Health Policy and Research (CHPR) and we’re here to introduce to you a week full of information about library resources and what role these might play in various components of your evaluation work from soup to nuts! We believe …
Happy November loyal readers! I’m Sheila B Robinson, aea365’s Lead Curator and sometimes Saturday contributor. A daily blog is a daily job, and I’m here to tell you that it takes a vill um, a team of enthusiastic volunteers along with our SmithBucklin* partners to make it happen. Today, I’m pleased to introduce two new members of …
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