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SIM TIG Week: Four Uses of Evaluation in Pay for Success Projects by Brian Beachkofski

Leave a Comment / Social Impact Measurement / March 24, 2018

Good morning! I’m Brian Beachkofski, lead for data and evaluation at Third Sector Capital Partners, Inc. We are a 501(c)3 consulting firm that advises governments, community organizations, and funders on how to better spend public funds to move the needle on pressing challenges such as economic mobility and the well-being of our children. Our proven …

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SIM TIG Week: Social Impact Measurement: What is this all about? By Jane Reisman and Alyna Wyatt

Leave a Comment / Social Impact Measurement / March 24, 2018

Hi there, we’re Jane Reisman and Alyna Wyatt, Chair and Program Chair of the Social Impact Measurement TIG. The fields of impact investing and other market solutions are rapidly advancing vehicles for addressing social and environmental goals. The Social Impact Measurement TIG is in its early stages of growth and exploration as we as evaluation …

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ICCE Week: Seven Tips to better evaluations in fragility, conflict and violence by Keiko Kuji-Shikatani and Hur Hassnain

5 Comments / International and Cross-cultural Evaluation / April 10, 2018

Hello, Keiko Kuji-Shikatani (C.E., CES representative for EvalGender+) and Hur Hassnain  (Pakistan Evaluation Association; Impact, Results and Learning Manager, Y Care International) here to share our thoughts on how to engage and collectively think about better evaluating learning and social accountability in FCV (fragility, conflict and violence). The World Bank estimates that by 2030, the …

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Predictive Analytics for Evaluators by Rick Davies

2 Comments / Uncategorized / March 31, 2018

Hello! I’m Rick Davies, Evaluation consultant, from Cambridge, UK. Predictive analytics is the use of algorithms to find patterns in data (e.g. clusters and association rules) by inductive means, rather than by theory led hypothesis testing.  I can recommend three free programs:  RapidMiner Studio, BigML and EvalC . My main use of these has been to develop prediction models, …

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BLP TIG Week: Tips for Navigating Changes in Leadership and Business Priorities as an Internal Evaluator by Erika Cooksey

Leave a Comment / Business, Leadership, and Performance / May 3, 2019

Hello, my name is Erika Cooksey. I am employed as an internal evaluator at Cincinnati Children’s. I’ve been a member of AEA since 2011, and I co-chair the Social Work TIG. A change in leadership can be a positive and stressful experience for the systems that it affects. A leader, new to an organization, brings …

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NA TIG Week: Necessity and Sufficiency Relationships by Ryan Watkins

3 Comments / Needs Assessment / March 17, 2018

Underlying any needs assessments is a concept of what is a “need.”  I’m Ryan Watkins and I teach how to do needs assessments at George Washington University and for The Evaluator’s Institute. It can be implied from the word that a need refers to a relationship where something is “needed,” or in other words that …

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NA TIG Week: Improving Needs Assessment (NA) Practice: The Seemingly Simple but not so Simple Double Scaled Survey by James W. Altschuld, Hsin-Ling (Sonya) Hung, and Yi-Fang Lee

Leave a Comment / Needs Assessment / March 17, 2018

Hi, we are James W. Altschuld, Hsin-Ling (Sonya) Hung, and Yi-Fang Lee from The Ohio State University, Virginia Commonwealth University, and National Taiwan Normal University, and have presented on, written about, and been involved in NAs for many years.  In reviewing manuscripts for publication, we have observed measurement and analysis issues in double scaled surveys used for …

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#EvalTwitter Week: Conference Twitter – It’s All About Timing by John Burrett

Leave a Comment / Uncategorized / March 10, 2018

Hi. I’m John Burrett, evaluator, data visualizer and network mapper. You can find me at http://haikuanalytics.com and on Twitter at @JohnBurrett. I’m always happy to hear from you. I’ve been doing network analysis of Twitter and Facebook messaging for several years. It’s amazing how much structure you see in these networks and how much they …

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SNA TIG Week: Using SNA to evaluate impact in complex systems by Jeneen R. Garcia

Leave a Comment / Social Network Analysis / February 10, 2018

My name is Jeneen R. Garcia. I’ve been a full-time evaluator at the Independent Evaluation Office of the Global Environment Facility (GEF IEO) for the last seven years. The GEF is the largest multilateral funder of environmental programs worldwide. Because the programs we evaluate almost all take place in complex social-ecological systems, we constantly need …

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SNA TIG Week: That’s A Pretty Picture, So What? by Rebecca Swann-Jackson

Leave a Comment / Social Network Analysis / February 10, 2018

My name is Rebecca Swann-Jackson, a Senior Research Associate at the Center for Research and Evaluation on Education and Human Services at Montclair State University.  I currently manage evaluation projects focused on teacher preparation and development, and educational programs and community-based initiatives serving urban children and families.  In the evaluation of an urban teacher residency …

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