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 Gregory Phillips and I work with both the EDIT and CONNECT research programs at Northwestern University’s Institute for Sexual and Gender Minority Health and Wellbeing. Here at EDIT, we use evaluation, data integration, and technical assistance to foster a learning community to improve the health and wellbeing of LGBTQ+ populations in Chicago and …
SNA TIG Week: An Introduction to Network Canvas by Gregory Phillips Read More »
Hello! My name is . I am an assistant professor at West Virginia University and part of the SNA TIG. In this post, I would simply like to discuss how the history of social networks impacted you. Cool Trick: Small Worlds In 1967, Stanley Milgram sent out 160 packages to random people in Omaha, Nebraska. …
SNA TIG Week: Is It A Small World After All? by Dr. Abhik Roy Read More »
Hi! I’m Maryann Durland and this week the Social Network Analysis (SNA) TIG will be posting. First SNA is frequently referred to as Network Analysis and Organizational Analysis, depending on the field of interest. These terms come out of the social sciences, particularly sociology, anthropology, economics, and other social science areas. In some cases, network …
SNA TIG Week: A Little History by Maryann Durland Read More »
I’m Maurya West Meiers. I work at the World Bank as a Senior Evaluation Officer and am coauthor of A Guide to Assessing Needs: Essential Tools for Collecting Information, Making Decisions, and Achieving Development Results (available for free here). My needs assessment and evaluation work often centers around areas of learning, capacity building, organizational development, management, performance, change …
Underlying any needs assessments is a concept of what is a “need.” I’m Ryan Watkins and I teach how to do needs assessments at George Washington University and for The Evaluator’s Institute. It can be implied from the word that a need refers to a relationship where something is “needed,” or in other words that …
NA TIG Week: Necessity and Sufficiency Relationships by Ryan Watkins Read More »
Hello! We’re Beth Mulligan and Kate Darwent from Corona Insights, a firm that provides research, evaluation, and strategic consulting services for government and nonprofit organizations. We are often contacted by clients who have both very limited resources and a very strong desire to understand and address the needs in their community (whether “their community” is …
Hi! I’m Madhawa “Mads” Palihapitiya, Associate Director of the Massachusetts Office of Public Collaboration at UMass Boston. In 2016, my agency completed the Massachusetts municipal conflict resolution needs assessment study which was commissioned by the Massachusetts State Legislature in 2014. The study features how destructive public conflicts, within and between municipalities, and their constituencies were …
Hi, we are James W. Altschuld, Hsin-Ling (Sonya) Hung, and Yi-Fang Lee from The Ohio State University, Virginia Commonwealth University, and National Taiwan Normal University, and have presented on, written about, and been involved in NAs for many years. In reviewing manuscripts for publication, we have observed measurement and analysis issues in double scaled surveys used for …
Welcome to the Needs Assessment TIG’s week on AEA 365! I’m Lisle Hites, Chair of the Needs Assessment TIG, Associate Professor in Health Care Organization and Policy and Director of the Evaluation and Assessment Unit (EAU) at the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) School of Public Health. On behalf of all of us here …
