Hello again from Ruth Aboagye – UMass Medical School, co-author of 3 blogs when we touched on Facts and Failures and talked in depth about Fishbones and Five Whys. Today, the focus will be on process flows also known as Flowcharts, which visually convey the steps in a process. More importantly, it helps you understand …
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Hello, we’re Matt Feldmann, president of Evaluation Association of St. Louis (EASL), and Asma Ali, president of Chicagoland Evaluation Association (CEA). With in-person conferences out of the question, we got together in Spring 2020 to dream up a different way to engage evaluators. We joined evaluators Kylie Hutchinson and Sheila B. Robinson and…VOILA!… started EVALpalooza. …
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Hi, my name is Lisa Kaczmarczyk, owner of an evaluation consultancy that focuses on Computer Science and Engineering Education, and an Adjunct Faculty in the Computer Science department at Harvey Mudd College. For years I wondered how I could do something professionally to address our growing environmental problems. Not long ago I realized that as …
Any independent evaluator can have an environment impact by Lisa Kaczmarczyk Read More »
Hello again! I am Beverly Peters, an assistant professor of Measurement and Evaluation at American University. This is the second article in a 5 part series on Using Interviews for Monitoring and Evaluation. In the previous article of this series, we learned when evaluators might use interviews to collect data for monitoring and evaluation. This article …
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I have said it before, and it is worth saying again. Especially now. Every single one of us is biased. My name is Didi Cross, and I have been involved in science evaluation for nearly ten years, including supporting the NIH and NSF in the United States, and funders and universities in the EU, UK, …
RTD TIG Week: Bias – It’s Still Here by Didi Cross Read More »
My name is Jodi Basner and I’m a Scientific Analyst on Clarivate’s Web of Science Consulting Team. It is exciting to be involved in a time, although unfortunately most recently born out of the COVID-19 pandemic, when research is exhibiting a dramatic shift toward enabling collaborations; directly through researchers providing complementary perspectives to a common …
Hello! I am Asher Beckwitt, Research and Evaluation Project Director with Ripple Effect, and I have expertise in qualitative methods including interviews, focus groups, and content analysis. Hi! I am Alexis (Lex) Helsel, Lead Program Evaluator with Ripple Effect, and I have extensive experience in quantitative methods including survey design and analysis, administrative data analyses, …
Hi, my name is Gavin Reddick and I am the program co-chair for the Research, Technology, and Development TIG. I am the chief analyst for Researchfish, a company that helps organisations to understand the outputs, outcomes and impact of their research. As a result of this I spend a lot of time looking at, and …
RTD TIG Week: Finding a Needle in a Stack of Needles by Gavin Reddick Read More »
I’m Gretchen Jordan, a long-time advocate of logic modeling. I do logic models on weekends for fun. My almost 30 years of work as an evaluator of government-funded science, technology, and innovation programs has convinced me that the big questions we are asked to answer require us to move toward use of agreed upon logical …
My name is Josh Schnell and I am co-chair of the Research Technology & Development (RTD) Evaluation Topical Interest Group (TIG) within AEA. I have been working in RTD evaluation and research assessment for over 12 years, now as director of the Academic & Government Consulting team within the Science Group at Clarivate. As I …
RTD TIG Week: AEA Involvement is More Important than Ever by Josh Schnell Read More »
