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SNA TIG Week: Rebecca Woodland on Social Network Analysis as a Tool for Improving Teacher Collaboration

Leave a Comment / Social Network Analysis / September 29, 2011

Hi, I am Rebecca Woodland, Associate Professor of Educational Leadership at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. Through the Collaborative School Leadership Network (CSLN), I work with superintendents and administrators to evaluate and strengthen teacher collaboration. Recently, I have begun to incorporate the use of social network analysis (SNA) into this work, which has strengthened my …

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SNA TIG Week: Irina Agoulnik on Evaluation of Scientific Interdisciplinary Teams with Social Network Analysis

Leave a Comment / Social Network Analysis / September 29, 2011

My name is Irina Agoulnik and I am the 2011 Program Chair of the Social Network Analysis (SNA) TIG. My day-to-day job involves management of a large Interdisciplinary Research Consortium (IRC) funded by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) Common Fund. To assess the effect that interdisciplinary approaches might have on scientific productivity and innovation …

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SNA TIG Week: Maryann Durland on Measurements and Sociograms in Social Network Analysis – Why Both Are Important

Leave a Comment / Social Network Analysis / September 29, 2011

Hi AEA 365er’s. I’m Maryann Durland, founding Chair of the Social Network Analysis (SNA) AEA Topical Interest Group (TIG) and an independent consultant with specialization in SNA. My topic in this SNA TIG series is about the importance of both measurements (numeric data) and sociograms (visual graphics) in SNA. Lessons Learned: The field of sociometrics …

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Teri Garstka on Using REDCap for Designing a Data Collection System

1 Comment / Integrating Technology into Evaluation, Research, Technology and Development Evaluation / September 19, 2011

My name is Teri Garstka and I am currently a Research Associate in the Institute for Educational Research and Public Service at the University of Kansas. We have a wide portfolio of research and evaluation projects in early childhood, child welfare and youth programs, and family services. We work with lots of state, local, and …

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Veena Pankaj and Myia Welsh on Participatory Analysis: Expanding Stakeholder Involvement in Evaluation

3 Comments / Collaborative, Participatory and Empowerment Evaluation, Nonprofits and Foundations Evaluation / June 2, 2011

Greetings fellow evaluators!  Our names are Veena Pankaj and Myia Welsh and we work for Innovation Network, a Washington DC-based evaluation firm.   While Innovation Network has always used a participatory approach to evaluation, we recently came to the realization that much of the ‘participatory-ness’ of our evaluation projects was limited to evaluation planning and data …

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Susan Kistler on Training and Data Visualization

1 Comment / Data Visualization and Reporting / April 16, 2011

Susan Kistler here, the American Evaluation Association’s Executive Director. Excited to connect after a long, but very productive, week. I spent the last week in Philadelphia training with Stephen McDaniel, author of Rapid Graphs with Tableau and SAS for Dummies, striving to up my game around data visualization and reporting. Lesson Learned: The question you …

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SIOP Week: Elizabeth Rupprecht on Using mTurk to Collect Evaluation Data

Leave a Comment / Business, Leadership, and Performance, Integrating Technology into Evaluation / February 25, 2011

Hello! I’m Elizabeth Rupprecht, an Industrial Organizational Psychology graduate student at Saint Louis University.  I would like to tell you more about a great resource for collecting national or international evaluation data—Amazon’s Mechanical Turk (mTurk). mTurk is normally used to provide organizations with assistance completing tasks. Typically, an organization will set up a “task,” such as …

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MaryAnn Sorensen Allacci on Spatial Analysis

2 Comments / Data Visualization and Reporting, Integrating Technology into Evaluation / February 14, 2011

Hello – I’m MaryAnn Sorensen Allacci, Director of Projects for Environmental Health, Knowledge, & Action, Inc. We provide a wide range of evaluation and advocacy services that focus on improving people’s well-being by improving their environments.  As a result, we will often work on community environmental health issues that require our consideration of many levels …

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