Allan Porowski and Heather Clawson on Conducting a Large-Scale, Mixed-Method Evaluation of a Dropout Prevention Program

Hello! We’re Allan Porowski from ICF International and Heather Clawson from Communities In Schools (CIS). We completed a five-year, comprehensive, mixed-method evaluation of CIS, which featured  several study components – including three student-level randomized controlled trials; a school-level quasi-experimental study; eight case studies; a natural variation study to identify what factors distinguished the most successful …

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Crystal Hurd on Conducting Theory-based Document Analysis

Hello!  I am Crystal Hurd, a K-12 educator and an adjunct professor at East Tennessee State University and Northeast State Community College.  Last year, I embarked on an unorthodox dissertation topic: Transformational Leadership in the Life and Works of C.S. Lewis.  No one had ever applied leadership theory to Lewis.  In response, many replied, the …

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Xiaomei Song on Evaluating a Large-Scale High-Stakes Testing System from the Stakeholder Perspective

My name is Xiaomei Song, a PhD Candidate in Assessment and Evaluation, Queen’s University, Kingston, Canada. In the past four years, I have been working on my doctoral degree and a part of my dissertation is to evaluate a large-scale high-stakes testing system from the stakeholder perspective. I have learned a number of lessons along …

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Dana Harley on Tips for Utilizing Photovoice with Children and Adolescents: Navigating the Institutional Review Board

I am Dana Harley, an Assistant Professor at Northern Kentucky University.  I specialize in child and adolescent mental health and developmental issues, with a focus on participatory action research methods such as, “photovoice.” Photovoice is a cutting edge research method aimed at uncovering issues, concerns, constructs, or real-life experiences of those who have historically been …

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Kylie Hutchinson on Effective Reporting Techniques for Evaluators

My name is Kylie Hutchinson.  I am an independent evaluation consultant and trainer with Community Solutions Planning & Evaluation.  I give regular webinars and workshops on evaluation topics for the AEA and CES and Twitter weekly at @EvaluationMaven. Like all of you, I try to be conscientious about conducting the best evaluation possible.  But for …

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Susan Kistler on Evaluation 2012 Coming Up in Minneapolis

My name is Susan Kistler, the American Evaluation Association’s Executive Director and aea365 Saturday contributor. I went to graduate school at the University of Minnesota and thus am especially pleased to be able to share with you information about this year’s AEA annual conference in Minneapolis. Hot Tip – Evaluation 2012: Registration is now open …

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MME Week: Terri Anderson on Using Best Practices for Mixed Methods Research in Evaluation

Hello! I’m Terri Anderson, Director for Evaluation at the University of Massachusetts Medical School’s (UMMS) Center for Health Policy and Research. I want to share our evaluation team’s experience using the National Institute of Health’s guide, Best Practices for Mixed Methods Research in the Health Sciences, to understand an unexpected evaluation result. When combining survey …

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MME Week: Hongling Sun on Mixed Methods Design

Hello, my name is Hongling Sun. I am a PhD student from University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. I feel honored to have this opportunity to share my mixed methods experience with you, with a focus on the lessons and tips I’ve learned through constructing a mixed methods design for a needs assessment study. That design …

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MME Week: Kristy Moster and Jan Matulis on Pulling It All Together: Creating a Strategy to Transform the Complex to the Coherent

Hi, we’re Kristy Moster and Jan Matulis. We’re evaluation specialists in the Education and Organizational Effectiveness Department at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center. Over the past year, our team has been engaged in the analysis of data from a three-year project with the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation focused on quality improvement training in healthcare. The …

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MME Week: Leanne Kallemeyn , Daniela Schiazza, and Ann Marie Ryan on Using Mixed Methods to Conduct Integrated Data Analysis

Our evaluation team from Loyola University Chicago, School of Education–Leanne Kallemeyn, Assistant Professor; Daniela Schiazza, doctoral candidate and project coordinator; and Ann Marie Ryan, Associate Professor–have been working on an external evaluation of a U.S. Department of Education Teaching American History grant. For two years, we used mixed methods to report GPRA indicators—surveys, tests, tracking …

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