Hello! I am Brandon Coffee-Borden and I served as Program Co-Chair of the Systems in Evaluation Topical Interest Group (SETIG) during 2015 to 2018. This blog post will describe how I have used the Principles for Effective Use of Systems Thinking in Evaluation to support my practice around data interpretation and analysis in a systems-informed …
Hi! I am Jeanette Tocol, and I am a Senior Monitoring and Evaluation Officer from Research, Evaluation and Learning Division of the American Bar Association Rule of Law Initiative (ABA ROLI). Hot Tip: In a recent internal evaluation I conducted, I used contribution analysis (CA) to assess the extent of contribution of a court automation …
Hello, I’m Elise Garvey, a senior management auditor from the King County Auditor’s Office in Seattle, Washington. I have become a huge fan of using data placemat sessions for my projects ever since learning about them at Eval 2015 and learning more from Kylie Hutchinson’s tips and tricks. Data placemats are large sheets of paper …
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Hi, this is Taj Carson, CEO at Inciter, a firm focused on helping clients change the world by using data. Many evaluators are caught flat-footed when they analyze data and run reports. Data are missing, they can’t find a client in the system because key information wasn’t entered, or the numbers just don’t add up. …
My name is Alex Fink and I’m a Research Fellow in Youth Studies at the University of Minnesota. I’m a developmental evaluator with youth-serving organizations. I’ve watched the last five years as many organizations are asking youth workers to collect more and more data about program participants. As one worker I spoke to said, “We …
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Hi! I’m Omoshalewa Bamkole, an Evaluation Fellow in the Division of Scientific Education and Professional Development (DSEPD) in the Center for Surveillance, Epidemiology, and Laboratory Services at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. I recently worked with colleagues to host a data party for internal stakeholders for the first time! What’s a data party? …
My name is Simon Geletta and I’m a professor in the Department of Public Health at Des Moines University. In most program evaluation programs that rely on quantitative data for evaluation, the focus of data preparation is for statistical analysis – not for social network analysis (SNA). Some scholars have highlighted the differences in the …
Hello! I’m Fiona Remnant, founder of a small UK social enterprise set up to continue developing and applying QuIP – a new qualitative social impact assessment tool, from research conducted in the Centre for Development Studies at the University of Bath. The problem? The QuIP team have been experimenting with a form of ‘goal-free’ evaluation …
DVR TIG Week: TIG Data Visualization by Fiona Remnant Read More »
Hi, my name is Elizabeth DiLuzio. I’m an evaluation and learning specialist passionate about telling an organization’s story with data, and I’m the Manager of Evaluation and Learning at Good Shepherd Services in New York City. Today, I want to share two data visualization techniques that can enable you to report about your constituents in …
Hi, I’m Lisa Melchior, President of The Measurement Group LLC, a consulting firm focused on evaluation of health, behavioral health, and social services for at-risk and vulnerable populations. I’m delighted to share some thoughts about the role of federal performance data and reporting requirements as they pertain to local evaluation. Since the inception of the …
BH TIG Week: Some Thoughts About Using GPRA Data for Local Evaluation by Lisa Melchior Read More »
