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DUP Week: Using Single Subjects Methodology in Program Evaluation by Brian Molina

Greetings, I am Brian Molina, a graduate student at in Western Michigan University’s Industrial/Organizational Behavior Management doctoral program. I have conducted single subject research and implemented performance improvement projects across many different settings and organizations. Lessons Learned: Single subject research is used to evaluate program effectiveness across large groups. The belief that single subject research …

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Starting at the End: Measuring Learning Using Retrospective Pre-Post Evaluations by Debi Lang and Judy Savageau

Hello! We are Debi Lang and Judy Savageau from the Center for Health Policy and Research at UMass Medical School. Earlier this year, Debi published a post on how program-specific learning objectives can help measure student learning to demonstrate program impact. Today’s post shows how to measure whether training or professional development programs are meeting …

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CP TIG Week: Tailoring Qualitative Methods to Evaluation Clients’ Needs by Jill Scheibler

Hi folks! I’m Jill Scheibler, a community psychologist and Senior Research Analyst at Carson Research Consulting, a women-led firm whose mission is to help clients thrive by using data to measure impact, communicate, and fundraise. We’re passionate about storytelling with data to make a difference. At CRC I’m the “word nerd”, implementing our qualitative projects. …

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The Improve Group Week: Stakeholder engagement at every stage of evaluation by Leah Goldstein Moses

Hi, I’m Leah Goldstein Moses, Founder and CEO at The Improve Group, an evaluation consulting firm based in Minnesota. Traditional evaluation approaches can miss important information by failing to account for context or differences across communities. Our firm created and practiced the Community-Responsive Approach to evaluation to engage stakeholders for better data, better relationships – …

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THE WISCONSIN IDEA IN ACTION: A Networked Improvement Community Forum for Participatory Evaluation by Steve Kimball

I am Steve Kimball, a researcher and evaluator with the Wisconsin Evaluation Collaborative at the UW-Madison, Wisconsin Center for Education Research. We have recently embraced a Networked Improvement Community (NIC) approach to learn from and with schools using varying approaches to personalized learning. I have been intrigued with the implications of the NIC concept as …

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RTD TIG Week: A Dedicated Path to Building Evaluation Capacity in a Federal Agency by Yaw Agyeman and Kezia Dinelt

Hello! I am Yaw Agyeman, Program Manager at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. I am joined by my writing partner Kezia Dinelt, Presidential Management Fellow at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE), to share how EERE developed and institutionalized a rigorous evaluation practice to quantify the impacts of …

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RTD TIG Week: Using text analytics and non-survey sources in evaluation by Christina Freym

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 …

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SIM TIG Week: Using Multi-Dimensional Poverty Outcomes in Measurement by Heather Esper and Yaquta Fatehi

This is Heather Esper, senior program manager, and Yaquta Fatehi, senior research associate, from the Performance Measurement Initiative at the William Davidson Institute at the University of Michigan. Our team specializes in performance measurement to improve organizations’ effectiveness, scalability, and sustainability and to create more value for their stakeholders in emerging economies. Our contribution to …

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SIM TIG Week: Will Impact Investing Fulfill Its Development Promise? by Robert Picciotto

I’m Robert Picciotto, director general of the Independent Evaluation Group at the World Bank from 1992 to 2002. I oversaw evaluation there and in its sister institution, the International Finance Corporation, which uses equity finance to promote private sector development. Evaluators charged with assessing the growing impact of the private sector in the social sphere …

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DVR TIG Week: You Should Pivot in Excel More by Julia Lamping

Hello! I’m Julie Lamping, a research analyst at Harper College in Illinois. A lot of what I do is extracting data that is needed, formatting it into tables or charts, and providing a basic analysis to be used during decision making at the College. No matter the project, everything gets thrown into Excel at some …

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