Hey there! I’m Stephanie Evergreen, AEA’s eLearning Initiatives Director and the lead of the Potent Presentations Initiative. We merged those two things in a project to revamp five slides from five of AEA’s eStudy presenters. This month I’ll share the reboot we did to Michael Quinn Patton’s slides.
Hello! We are Stacy Johnson and Cami Connell from the Improve Group. At Evaluation 2013, we had the opportunity to present on our experiences using a unique mixed methods approach to collecting data. Your data collection strategy has the potential to seriously impact your evaluation. You might ask yourself questions like: How do we make …
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Hello evaluation community, I am Johanna Morariu, Director of Innovation Network. Do you like getting something for free? Me too! Using Twitter data of the use of #eval13 I will demonstrate how to get started with network analysis in NodeXL. Were you at Evaluation 2013 in Washington, DC? Thousands of evaluators converged to talk methods, …
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Hi! My name is Kim Firth Leonard (@KimFLeonard). I have been working in program evaluation and/or higher education assessment for about as long as Twitter has been around, but only joined the fray about a year ago. I believe Twitter can be a rich professional development resource – this post is meant to help fellow …
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Hello! We are Silvana Bialosiewicz and Kelly Murphy from Claremont Graduate University. Working as Senior Research Associates at the Claremont Evaluation Center, we have often been tasked with analyzing large quantitative databases and drawing conclusions about program effectiveness based on our results. Today, we’d like to share some hot tips about pesky sources of bias …
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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 …
Greetings! I’m Siobhan Cooney and I conduct program evaluations and applied research for the College Board. Today I’d like to share with you some things I’ve learned about evaluating professional development (PD) programs for teachers. Teacher PD is currently a critical component of many education reform efforts, demanding a substantial investment of public dollars. This …
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There is much, much more to Twitter than first meets the eye. It’s not just a platform where you can share what you had for dinner in 140 characters. It’s a fully customizable RSS feed. It’s a potent networking tool. It’s an incredible resource for research and evaluation.
Hello! I’m Jan Upton and have over 25 years of consulting experience; the past 13 spent creating and running Institutional Research Consultants, Ltd. (IRC). Below are lessons for each business life cycle stage that I wished I had known when I started out, and recently learned ones. Lesson Learned: Inception: Evaluation has a wonderful culture …
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We are Marty Henry and Keith Murray, lead evaluators for M.A. Henry Consulting, LLC in Fairfax, Virginia, and St. Louis, Missouri. The issues noted here stem largely from math and science education program evaluations we have done, but they apply to many evaluation contexts. The federal funding programs supporting these projects aim at improving teacher …
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