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Ed Eval TIG Week: Catherine Callow-Heusser on Using Retrospective Assessments of Knowledge and Skills When Pretest Data Are Not Available

2 Comments / Prek-12 Educational Evaluation, Uncategorized / November 29, 2016 July 24, 2024

Hi! My name is Catherine Callow-Heusser, Ph.D., President of EndVision Research and Evaluation. I served as the evaluator of a 5-year Office of Special Education Programs (OSEP) funded personnel preparation grant. The project trained two cohorts of graduate students, each completing a 2-year Master’s level program. When the grant was funded, our first task was …

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DVR TIG Week: Tony Fujs on Can You See What Is Not There? Visualizing Missing Data

2 Comments / Data Visualization and Reporting / November 22, 2016 November 20, 2016

Hello! I’m Tony Fujs, Data Scientist at the World Bank. As many fellow data nerds, I love to visualize the data I have in my hands, but I also like to spend time visualizing data that I don’t have: Missing data. Why would I do that? Because bad handling of missing data can seriously bias …

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Rhodri Dierst-Davies on Solving federal evaluation challenges through streamlining data collection and reporting

Leave a Comment / Uncategorized / November 18, 2016 November 14, 2016

Hi, my name is Rhodri Dierst-Davies, an evaluation specialist with Deloitte Consulting LLP working out of our federal practice. Many times federal programs are, by design, implemented differently across states and municipalities. These programs rely on inputs from local stakeholders and policy makers to ensure they are tailored to the needs of the communities they …

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Siobhan Cooney on School and District Approvals for Data Collection with Students

Leave a Comment / Prek-12 Educational Evaluation / November 15, 2016 November 9, 2016

Hello! I’m Siobhan Cooney, Principal Consultant of Cooney Collaborative. Over the past eight years, I’ve had the good fortune of working with more than 100 school and district entities to gain approval for data collection activities – such as surveys, assessments and focus groups – involving students whose teachers have followed non-traditional paths to certification …

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PE CoE Week: Patrick Koeppl on Authenticity and meaning in qualitative data analyses

Leave a Comment / Independent Consulting / October 31, 2016 October 30, 2016

I’m Patrick Koeppl, cultural anthropologist, mixed methods scientist, Halloween enthusiast and Managing Director at Deloitte Consulting LLP. Throughout my career, I have found mixed methods are often the leading way to conduct broad evaluation of complex systems and situations. Qualitative approaches like in-depth interviews, focus groups, participant observation, policy reviews, and many others have a …

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Paul Collier on practicing great data and evaluation habits – Part 2

Leave a Comment / Uncategorized / August 26, 2016 August 24, 2016

Hello again! Paul Collier here. Yesterday, I shared several resources that helped me create repeatable data and evaluation processes at SFCAPC Today I’d like to share with you six of the specific habits I followed to manage our “data” function, develop our Efforts to Outcomes database, and provide consistent value to our staff. Lessons Learned: …

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Paul Collier on creating great data and evaluation habits – Part 1

Leave a Comment / Uncategorized / August 25, 2016 August 24, 2016

Hello AEA365! I’m Paul Collier. Over the last two years I worked as the Data and Evaluation Manager at the San Francisco Child Abuse Prevention Center (SFCAPC), a mid-size nonprofit focused on ending child abuse in San Francisco. At SFCAPC, I worked with all our 50+ staff members to help them use our data to …

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Liz Zadnik with Favorites from Effective Data Visualization: The Right Chart for the Right Data

Leave a Comment / Uncategorized / August 20, 2016 August 19, 2016

Happy Saturday everyone! I’m Liz Zadnik, aea365’s Outreach Coordinator. I have a bit of a confession to make, I may have set too high of a bar with myself – I expected to share reflections from each of the books on my reading list last year. Definitely missed the mark. I’m disappointed in myself, but …

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Lacy Fabian on Waiting for Data

Leave a Comment / Uncategorized / April 11, 2016 April 10, 2016

Hello, I am Lacy Fabian, a Healthcare Evaluation Specialist. Moving the needle toward higher quality healthcare at the national level brings with it tremendous amounts of data. The volume of data is beneficial for designing complex models; however, the downside is that the data are often processed manually and years old by the time they …

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