Hello! We are Alex, John, and Jenica, data science and evaluation specialists with Deloitte Consulting, LLP. We review large sets of qualitative data on a regular basis, and to save time and pull insights we may miss during a manual review, we turn to automation. With recent advances and increased access to automated text analytics …
Hi, I’m Allison Ricket from Ohio University’s Voinovich School of Leadership and Public Service and I am here to tell you about the work I am doing to on behalf of Social Value US to develop a Body of Knowledge (BoK) for the field of Impact Measurement and Management (IMM). I have begun a collaborative, cross-disciplinary …
Hello! I am Elizabeth Oyer, President of EvalSolutions, Inc. where I provide program evaluation and business consulting services. Like many evaluators, my program evaluation designs are often mixed methods with at least one focus group or interview to complement quantitative data. Through the years, I have used a variety of strategies to prepare the hours …
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Hi, everyone. This is Paul Frankel, and I am an evaluator at Centerstone’s Research Institute. Our division closes the research-to-practice gap for our community mental health centers in Tennessee, Indiana, Illinois, and Florida. I received my doctorate in social psychology from Tulane University, and I was thrilled to attend AEA’s annual meeting in the Big …
My name is Quisha Brown and I am a nonprofit consultant and co-founder of Humanistic Care, LLC, an organization offering culturally responsive solutions to tough challenges faced by nonprofits serving marginalized people. I’m also the Author of “Racial Equity Lens Logic Model & Theory of Change” as well as the newly released short and simple guide “Using the Progressive Outcomes Scale Logic Model to Evaluate Systems Change: A Housing Industry Case Study”. This blog post discusses strategies for how to stop reducing people of color to numbers by focusing evaluation on their real life stories rather than quantitative data.
Program evaluation is an essential part of providing quality afterschool programming to youth and their families. Evaluation becomes more powerful and impactful when all of the stakeholders are involved in the evaluation process (O’Donoghue, Kirschner, & McLaughlin, 2003). But how do organizations providing youth programs involve young people in program planning and evaluation?
Hello, I am Barbara Klugman (PhD), based in South Africa, once an anti-apartheid and women’s rights activist, now providing freelance strategy and evaluation supports for social justice funders, networks and NGOs.
I work with groups engaged in organising and advocating for social or environmental justice. In this process, I have come to realise that sometimes just the term ‘evaluation’ is enough to undermine the possibility of them initiating or further institutionalizing their information gathering, reflection, learning and adaptation processes. Their experience of ‘M&E’ is the requirement created by their funders that they name, in advance, what they will do and what they will influence. This might work alright for a group running an already-established service, but it is entirely guesswork and inappropriate for groups whose effectiveness requires them to shift both protest and advocacy strategies as the broader public and political discourse shifts, and as windows of opportunity for influence open and then close. Whatever they plan, they may need to shift.
Hi, my name is Aaron Kates, I am a recent graduate of the Interdisciplinary PhD in Evaluation Program at Western Michigan University. I live in South Bend, Indiana and work as a consultant with EffectX, an independent evaluation firm. Today I will be sharing a few resources I found about a topic I learned about …
Deborah Wasserman, Kit Klein, Carey Tisdal, and Priya Mohabir are Co-PIs on Roads Taken: A Retrospective Study of Program Strategies and Long-term Impacts of Intensive, Multi-year, STEM Youth Programs (NSF AISL #1906396). Deborah is a senior researcher with COSI Center for Research and Evaluation in Columbus, OH; Kit and Carey both independent contractors have been …
The purpose of this blog is to offer my first impressions of the hot topics discussed in the sessions I attended at the 2022 conference in New Orleans. By way of background, I am Anand Desai, Senior Fellow at Clarivate and Professor of Public Policy Emeritus at the John Glenn College of Public Affairs, Ohio …
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I’m Paula Fearon, Co-Founder of the Analytics Research Institute, and together with my colleagues Heather Eshleman, Ami Shah, and Leigh Firestone Brooks, we are pleased to kick-off the RTD TIG week on AEA 365. Our day-to-day work involves producing a myriad of analyses using all types of datasets. To ensure our work is both high …
