AEA365 – Page 425 – A Tip-a-Day by and for Evaluators

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

Leave a Comment / Data Visualization and Reporting / July 15, 2012 January 16, 2016

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

Leave a Comment / Uncategorized / July 14, 2012 May 17, 2013

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

Leave a Comment / Health Evaluation, Mixed Methods Evaluation / July 13, 2012 June 29, 2012

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

Leave a Comment / Mixed Methods Evaluation / July 12, 2012 June 29, 2012

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

1 Comment / Health Evaluation, Mixed Methods Evaluation / July 11, 2012 July 8, 2012

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

Leave a Comment / Mixed Methods Evaluation / July 10, 2012 June 29, 2012

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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MME Week: Tayo Fabusuyi and Tori Hill on the Evaluation of a Minority Leadership Program

Leave a Comment / Disabilities and Underrepresented Populations, Mixed Methods Evaluation, Multiethnic Issues in Evaluation / July 9, 2012 June 29, 2012

We are Tayo Fabusuyi and Tori Hill, Lead Strategist and Research Scientist respectively of Numeritics, a research and consulting firm based in Pittsburgh, PA. We conducted an evaluation of the Black Male Leadership Development Institute (BMLDI), a year-long program in Western Pennsylvania for high-school aged African American males. The BMLDI is designed to give participants …

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MME Week: Mika Yamashita on Mixed Methods Evaluation TIG Week

Leave a Comment / Mixed Methods Evaluation / July 8, 2012 June 29, 2012

My name is Mika Yamashita, a program chair of the Mixed Methods Evaluation Topical Interest Group (TIG). The Mixed Methods Evaluation TIG was founded in 2010 to be a space for members to “examine the use of mixed methods evaluation through reflective analysis of philosophy, theory and methodology that is developing in the field of …

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Susan Kistler on Resources for Evaluating Communications

2 Comments / Uncategorized / July 7, 2012 July 7, 2012

My name is Susan Kistler, the American Evaluation Association’s Executive Director and aea365 Saturday contributor. This week, a colleague asked about resources for evaluation of communications. Rad Resource – Making Health Communications Work: On AEA’s listserv, EVALTALK, Pam Kelley recommended this free guide (more of a book, it is over 250 pages of assistance and …

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