My name is Jennifer Sullivan Sulewski and I am a Research Associate at the Institute for Community Inclusion (ICI), University of Massachusetts Boston and past co-chair of AEA’s Disabilities and Other Vulnerable Populations (DOVP) TIG. At ICI, we do a lot of work involving analysis of publicly available datasets to determine outcomes and trends for …
I’m Pat Campbell, president of Campbell-Kibler Associates, Inc. Under NSF funding, Eric Jolly, president of the Science Museum of Minnesota and I, with the help of a lot of friends, have been generating research-based tips, such as those below, to improve the accuracy of data collection, the quality of the analysis and the appropriateness of …
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Greetings we are Laura Pryor and Nichole Stewart, graduate students and recent alumnae of AEA’s Graduate Education Diversity Initiative (GEDI) program (2011-2012 cohort). Laura is an incoming doctoral student at UC Berkeley’s Graduate School of Education and Nichole is a fifth year doctoral student in University of Maryland Baltimore County’s Public Policy department with a …
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I’m Jennifer Ann Morrow, a faculty member in Evaluation, Statistics, and Measurement at the University of Tennessee. I created a 12 Step process evaluators can follow to ensure their data is clean prior to conducting analyses. Hot Tip: Evaluators should follow these 12 steps prior to conducting analyses for evaluation reports: 1. Create a data …
Hi, I am Miranda Yates, Director of Program Evaluation and Planning (PEP) at Good Shepherd Services (GSS), a youth and family development, multi-service agency in New York City. My PEP colleagues, Barbara Alcantara, Nora Casey, and Cathleen Mitchell, and I have developed a visually engaging report template that keeps staff focused on the key outputs …
Greetings. We are Linda Cabral and Laura Sefton from the University of Massachusetts Medical School, Center for Health Policy and Research. We are part of a multi-disciplinary team evaluating the Massachusetts Patient Centered Medical Home Initiative (MA-PCMHI), a state-wide, multi-site demonstration project engaging 46 primary care practices in organizational transformation to adopt the PCMH primary …
Greetings! I am Simon Geletta – Program Co-Chair for the SNA-TIG and associate professor of public health atDes Moines University in Iowa. In this post, I illustrate how I used the open-source softwareGephi to conduct a social network analysis of hospital visitation patterns in Iowa. Hospital utilization patterns are important to healthcare services research because …
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Hello all, I’m Castle Sinicrope, Webmaster for the Social Network Analysis TIG since 2011 and Policy Analyst at Social Policy Research Associates, a research, evaluation, and technical assistance firm in Oakland, CA. For newcomers to social network analysis, picking the right software package can be a daunting task. Here’s an overview of four commonly used tools …
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Welcome to the Social Network Analysis in Evaluation (SNA) TIG week on AEA365! My name is Stacey Friedman, and I am Co-Chair of the SNA TIG. I am the Associate Director of Evaluation and Planning for the Foundation for Advancement of International Education and Research (FAIMER), which works to improve education of health professionals around …
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Hello! I am Manny Straehle and I work with International Credentialing Associates (ICA). ICA is a measurement consulting firm with expertise in developing certificates, certification, and licensing programs. We are committed to producing reports and visualizations that are simple and easy to understand for the clients we serve, but we need your help. Hot Tip …
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