My name is Jose Diaz, and I am one of the economists in Wilder Research conducting social return on investment analysis. How many times have you been approached by a program leader asking you for an evaluation and just after a few minutes of talking you realize that the program does not have enough data …
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Hello, I am Caryn Mohr, a Research Scientist at Wilder Research, a nonprofit human services research and evaluation group in St. Paul, Minnesota. Our work ranges from qualitative to quasi-experimental studies, and often involves multiple research methods. My recent work has afforded the opportunity to see the merits and challenges in conducting case study research. …
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I’m Paul Mattessich, Executive Director of Wilder Research. Our staff includes about 30 applied research professionals who study program effectiveness and community trends related to: children; education; public health; housing; homelessness; aging; social disparities; and other topics. The mission of Wilder Research is to improve the lives of individuals, families, and communities through human services …
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I am Susan Kistler, AEA’s Executive Director and aea365 Saturday contributor. Recently, we took a look at the traffic on AEA’s web assets – our website, aea365, TIG websites, etc. I thought that I would share a few things that we learned along the way. Lesson Learned – Visitors: Website traffic is subject to a …
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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. Have you ever felt bored sitting in a conference presentation, or frustrated by a presenter with poor delivery …
Greetings, I am Jane Eppard, Vice-Chair of the Family Hope Foundation. We founded FHF in 2009 with a mission to invest in children with special needs through family support, engaging community experts, advocacy through collaboration, and financial assistance to provide access to therapies. In a very short amount of time we have gained community support …
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Hello, I am Gisele Tchamba, a PhD candidate in the Interdisciplinary PhD in Evaluation program (IDPE) at Western Michigan University. During the three years I spent in this program I came to understand that knowing the difference between evaluation and research matters. I found myself defining evaluation and explaining the difference to people in various …
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Hello, I am Jennifer Coyle, Research Associate at Western Michigan University and Technical Assistance Coordinator for the National Secondary Technical Assistance Center. Due to the number of emails and comments on yesterday’s post, this is a follow up to Creating Presentations Potent for All with tips specific to presenting to people who may have hearing …
Greetings, I am June Gothberg and assisting with AEA’s Potent Presentations Initiative (p2i). Today, I want to share with you how to design presentations for all audience members. It is important that presentations are readable, navigable, and understandable. Lesson Learned: Your audience is likely to be diverse. The World Health Organization (WHO) estimates: 7-8% of …
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I am Humberto Reynoso-Vallejo a Director for Program Evaluation with the Center for Health Policy and Research at the University of Massachusetts Medical School. Conducting evaluation entails the incorporation of multicultural features of individuals and/or organizations into the process of data collection and analysis. These multicultural features are socially constructed and are translated into layers …
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