Hi, I’m Tom McKlin, Executive Director of The Findings Group. We have been transitioning our data analyses and visualizations to R for the past couple of years. The question I faced (and still face) when making this transition was, how can we best apply R to either improve our efficiency, accuracy, or communication of complex …
R Week: Process Analysis: Determining Where to Begin with R by Tom McKlin Read More »
We are Audrey Jordan (evaluation consultant and executive life coach in Southern California at audreyjordan2012@gmail.com) and Tom Kelly (VP Knowledge, Evaluation & Learning at Hawai‘i Community Foundation at tkelly@hcf-hawaii.org) and we used to work together helping create local learning partnerships of evaluators and community residents in cities across the US as part of a 10-year, …
CD TIG Week: Evaluation in Partnership with Communities by Audrey Jordan and Tom Kelly Read More »
My name is Mary Lou D’Allegro and I am the Vice-President for Academic Affairs at Columbia State Community College. I am responsible for the quality of our programs and the faculty who teach in those programs. There is not much that is NOT evaluated in higher education. The double negative was intended. Yet, for all …
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Hi! I’m Sindy Bolaños-Sacoman, Evaluator and President of SBS Consulting in the State of New Mexico. As a contractor with the University of New Mexico’s School of Medicine Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, we just completed a five-year evaluation on a SAMHSA funded SBIRT project. We collaborated with several primary care, urgent care, tribal …
Hello! I am Gisele Tchamba, past Chair of Behavioral Health TIG and Founder of ADR Evaluation Consulting. Valuing from the Fourth Generation Evaluation (FGE) Perspective – Evaluation theorists in the valuing branch of Alkin’s theory tree have different views of valuing. Some share the perspectives of Third Generation Evaluation in which the evaluator as judge …
Hi, we are Dr. Anupama Shekar, Director of Evaluation and Dr. Matt Pierson, Program Officer, Alumni Network at Teaching Trust, an education leadership nonprofit in Dallas, Texas. Teaching Trust offers high-quality training and support to future school leaders, school leadership teams, and teacher leaders to ensure children in low-income schools across North Texas have access to …
Hi, I am Christina Freyman, a Director in the Center for Innovation Strategy and Policy at SRI International. Today I am writing about non-survey sources of data for evaluation – specifically related to the evaluation of research programs. Evaluations of programs inevitably suffer from biases related to missing or unreliable data, particularly when the goal …
I am Kate Goddard Rohrbaugh, an evaluator in the Office of Strategic Information, Research, and Planning at the Peace Corps in Washington, DC. Today I am writing about lessons learned when planning and executing a cross-sectional analysis from studies conducted in multiple countries, and I will provide some cool tricks for writing syntax. Between 2008 …
I’m Patrick Koeppl, cultural anthropologist, mixed methods scientist, Halloween enthusiast and Managing Director at Deloitte Consulting LLP. Throughout my career, I have found mixed methods are often the leading way to conduct broad evaluation of complex systems and situations. Qualitative approaches like in-depth interviews, focus groups, participant observation, policy reviews, and many others have a …
PE CoE Week: Patrick Koeppl on Authenticity and meaning in qualitative data analyses Read More »
Hi! I’m Amy Grack Nelson, Evaluation & Research Manager at the Science Museum of Minnesota. I’m part of a really cool National Science Foundation-funded project called Building Informal Science Education, or as we like to refer to it – BISE. The BISE project is a collaboration between the University of Pittsburgh, the Science Museum of …
