My name is Linda Thurston and I serve as the associate dean for research in the college of education and Kansas State University. I have been a member of AEA for 16 years and have been co-chair of the Disabilities and Other Vulnerable Populations TIG. Lesson Learned: Have you thought about the potential characteristics of …
DOVP Week: Linda Thurston on Knowing your Stakeholders Read More »
We are Linda Vo-Green, Krista Collins and Lindsey Barranco of the Atlanta-area Evaluation Association (AaEA), and your chairs for the Local Arrangements Working Group for Evaluation 2016 in Atlanta. AaEA was initiated in 2000 to provide our 400+ community of local evaluators with networking and professional development opportunities. We work closely with the local Independent …
Hi! We’re Laura Sefton, Judy Savageau, and Linda Cabral from the University of Massachusetts Medical School’s Center for Health Policy and Research (CHPR). Often, performance improvement isn’t built into an evaluation project because it can take time that we feel we don’t have when the next project needs our attention. However, we have found that …
Veronica Olazabal (Rockefeller Foundation) and Linda Raftree (Kurante) here on considerations for data dashboards. Linda recently organized a Tech Salon on this at The Rockefeller Foundation. A session around dashboards had to include Stephanie Evergreen. We also wanted to hear from others, so we included Shawna Hoffman (MasterCard Foundation) and John DeRiggi (DAI). Dashboards might …
Greetings! I am Linda Cabral from the University of Massachusetts Medical School’s Center for Health Policy and Research. A big part of my job uses qualitative methods to evaluate different health and human services programs. Our data collection processes can include utilizing one-on-one or group interviews and as well as focus groups. With this type …
Linda Cabral on To Transcribe or Not to Transcribe….That is the Question. Read More »
Hello, we are Linda Cabral and Jillian Richard-Daniels from the Center for Health Policy and Research at University of Massachusetts Medical School. Collecting and reporting data on a set of predefined measures is something that many evaluators are asked to do. This typically quantitative process involves gathering data, often from multiple sources and stakeholders, to …
We are Linda Cabral and Laura Sefton from the University of Massachusetts Medical School’s Center for Health Policy and Research, and part of the PCMHI Evaluation Team whose work is being described all week. We want to share our team’s experience of being participant observers at ‘learning sessions’ and how it’s helped our overall multi-modal …
We are Linda Cabral and Judy Savageau from the University of Massachusetts Medical School’s Center for Health Policy and Research. All of our projects involve some type of data collection, sometimes in the form of a survey. In order to get high quality survey data, you need to ensure that your respondents are interpreting questions …
Hello from Kansas, the nation’s breadbasket! I am Linda Thurston, Associate Dean of the College of Education at Kansas State University and long-time member of AEA. I am the 2013 co-chair of AEA’s Disabilities and Other Vulnerable Populations (DOVP) TIG. DOVP welcomes you to a week of aea365 articles focused on information and resources to help …
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 3-year, statewide, multi-site demonstration project engaging 46 primary care practices in organizational transformation to adopt this …
