Josh Twomey on An Evaluator’s Journey Toward Bayes: Part II

This is Josh Twomey again from UMass Medical School’s Center for Health Policy and Research. As promised in yesterday’s Part 1 posting, I wanted to walk through an example demonstrating aspects of Bayesian analysis that evaluators might find advantageous. Part 1 mentioned the use of the Bayes Factor (BF) as a decision-making tool. BFs tell …

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Josh Twomey on An Evaluator’s Journey Toward Bayes: Part I

My name is Josh Twomey, Assistant Professor of Family Medicine & Community Health, at UMass Medical School’s Center for Health Policy and Research. Perhaps you have noticed the term ‘Bayesian’ popping up now and then in the evaluators’ break room. I certainly have, and in recent months, set out on a statistical journey to find …

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Marissa Szabo and Humberto Reynoso-Vallejo on Engaging Stakeholders and Experts as Research Participants and/or as Members of the Advisory Committee

Hello, we are Marissa Szabo and Humberto Reynoso-Vallejo, members of the Chapter 224 research team evaluating the Health Care Cost Containment Law from the Office of the State Auditor in Massachusetts. This is another in a series of posts on lessons learned from the ongoing evaluation of Chapter 224 published during the March 8th week. …

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Laureen Trainer and Joy Kubarek on Museum Educators as Evaluators

Hello from Laureen Trainer, Principal of Trainer Evaluation in Denver and Joy Kubarek, Vice President of Learning for Shedd Aquarium in Chicago. We both came from museum education backgrounds and now find ourselves in the world of evaluation where we work to improve museum practice, advance our industry, and demonstrate value. We are also passionate …

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Judy Savageau and Len Levin on Today’s Librarian and Building an Evaluation Team

We are Judy Savageau and Len Levin from the University of Massachusetts Medical School’s Center for Health Policy and Research (CHPR) and Lamar Soutter Library, respectively. Back in November, we introduced you to a week’s worth of lessons learned, hot tips and rad resources for how the literature (written and electronic) and various databases provide …

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Myia Welsh on Conducting Focus Groups with Trauma Survivors

Hi! I’m Myia Welsh, an independent consultant working with nonprofit and community organizations. Much of my work is done with organizations that provide services to survivors of human trafficking. What’s that, you ask? Trafficking is any enterprise where someone makes a profit from the exploitation of another by force, fraud or coercion. Just like the …

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Sara Vaca on My 3 most Remarkable Moments About Evaluation

Greetings! I’m Sara Vaca (@visualbrains), independent consultant at EvalQuality.com and Creative Advisor of this blog. Evaluators are very interesting people, whose experiences are as worth exploring as the people we work with. So I had this idea: wouldn’t it be great to know the top 3 stories/moments that most influenced each evaluator? I think it …

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CP TIG Week: Steve Erickson on Evaluation by collaboration

I’m Steve Erickson of EMSTAR Research, a community/organizational consulting firm based in Atlanta. For the last 10 years I have served as lead evaluator for the Georgia Family Connection Partnership (GaFCP), a public/private nonprofit that supports a statewide network of “Family Connection” Collaboratives addressing child and family issues in all 159 counties. Georgia is the …

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CP TIG Week: Natalie Wilkins and Courtney Barnard on “Walking the Talk” to bridge community psychology and evaluation

Hello! We are Natalie Wilkins and Courtney Barnard, and we are members of the Community Psychology TIG leadership team. Community and stakeholder engagement is a core principle of both evaluation and community psychology. As evaluators and community psychologists, it is not surprising that we are very interested in learning about how stakeholder engagement strengthens our …

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CP TIG Week: Courtney Barnard on Creating sustained impact

Hi, my name is Courtney Barnard and I am a social worker at a children’s health care system in north Texas. I spend half my time out in the community coordinating a coalition and the other half evaluating seven other community-based coalitions and programs. You can use evaluation to help plan for the sustained impact …

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