We are Lauren Baba and Carol Cahill with the Center for Community Health and Evaluation (CCHE), part of Group Health Research Institute (GHRI) in Seattle. Our team of consultants works with a various stakeholders to evaluate community health initiatives, clinic-community linkages, and health improvement coalitions. We are always brainstorming new ways to make evaluation reports …
We are Sonia Worcel, Vice President of Strategy and Research, and Kim Leonard, Senior Evaluation Officer, at The Oregon Community Foundation (OCF). The research team at OCF conducts internal evaluations as well as oversees contractors for some external evaluations. We use Evaluation Advisory Groups (EAGs) for our internal evaluations, and currently have EAGs for three …
I am David Keyes, Researcher, from The Oregon Community Foundation. The Research team at The Oregon Community Foundation (OCF) is currently conducting program evaluations of several OCF grantmaking initiatives, including an out-of-school-time initiative, intended to help close the achievement gap by supporting quality improvement and expansion of out-of-school time programming. Twenty-one grantee organizations with a …
Hi! This is Amy Grack Nelson, Evaluation and Research Manager, and Zdanna King, Assistant Evaluation and Research Manager, from the Science Museum of Minnesota. If you are like us, you may have shared an evaluation report with other evaluators on websites such as AEA’s eLibrary or informalscience.org. Even though opportunities to share reports online are …
An MBA, three nurses and a doctor at UMass Medical School’s Center for Health Policy and Research (CHPR) – Office of Health Care Innovation and Quality are back again. In the evaluation world, we often use QI methods to improve the processes by which we conduct our work, such as improving systems for file management, which we discuss …
Hello! I’m Julie Goldman, a librarian at the University of Massachusetts Medical School’s Lamar Soutter Library. I want to introduce you to a number of high-quality public health resources, most of them freely available, and all that can help you as evaluators understand and support your communities, your research, and your work. Public health information …
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I’m Bernadette Wright, partner at Meaningful Evidence, LLC. In this post, I’m going to tell you about a new method for integrating your background research, to strengthen your evaluation results. Lessons Learned: “Little Is Known”? I’ve seen that many program evaluation reports include short “background research” sections that quickly decide “little is known.” At …
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My name is Ama Nyame-Mensah, and I am a doctoral student in the Social Welfare program at the University of Pennsylvania. Likert scales are commonly used in program evaluation. However, despite their widespread popularity, Likert scales are often misused and poorly constructed, which can result in misleading evaluation outcomes. Consider the following tips when using …
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My name is Marina Byrd, analyst with the Florida Legislature’s Office of Program Policy Analysis and Government Accountability (OPPAGA) and program co-chair for the Southeast Evaluation Association (SEA). I started my evaluation career with OPPAGA after graduating with a Master’s of Public Policy from the Martin School of Public Policy and Administration at the University …
Hello! We are Laura Sundstrom and Megan Elyse Williams, Evaluation Associates at the Curtis Center Program Evaluation Group (CC-PEG) at the University of Michigan School of Social Work. At CC-PEG, we train Master of Social Work students in program evaluation through providing high-quality evaluation services to community-based organizations. Our students enter our unit with a …
