Hello, I am Caryn Mohr, a Research Scientist at Wilder Research, a nonprofit human services research and evaluation group in St. Paul, Minnesota. Our work ranges from qualitative to quasi-experimental studies, and often involves multiple research methods. My recent work has afforded the opportunity to see the merits and challenges in conducting case study research. …
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I am Humberto Reynoso-Vallejo a Director for Program Evaluation with the Center for Health Policy and Research at the University of Massachusetts Medical School. Conducting evaluation entails the incorporation of multicultural features of individuals and/or organizations into the process of data collection and analysis. These multicultural features are socially constructed and are translated into layers …
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Hi! I am Jim Cochran, co-founder and the Past Chair of Statistics Without Borders (SWB). SWB’s vision is to achieve better statistical practice, including statistical analysis and design of experiments and surveys, so that international health projects and initiatives are delivered more effectively and efficiently. Lessons Learned: Cultural competence is crucial. As Dominica McBride blogged …
Greetings, I am David J. Fitch, IDIES, Universidad Rafael Landívar, Guatemala and a member of SWB. Learning Lessons: UNICEF estimates Cuban and US infant mortality (IM) rates are 6 and 8 per 1,000 live births, showing a better record for a very poor country than a very rich country. Other poor countries and countries giving …
Greetings, I am Gary Shapiro, co-founder and current Chair of Statistics Without Borders (SWB). Recently, we started collaborating with the American Evaluation Association. This week aea365 will feature knowledge and resources from SWB members appropriate for professional evaluators. Tips: What is SWB? SWB is an all-volunteer outreach group of the American Statistical Association. The group …
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Greetings from Kentucky, the land of national basketball championships. My name is Vanessa Prier Jackson and I a professor of retailing in the School of Human Environmental Sciences in the department of Merchandising Apparel and Textiles at the University of Kentucky. For the last three years I have become very interested in qualitative research in …
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 …
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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My name is Andrew Anderson and I’m the manager of an internal evaluation team in one of Australia’s largest charities, The Benevolent Society. One of our guiding principles is to make our evaluations useful. But when we surveyed our 800 staff two years ago they told us that, although they valued evaluation, they didn’t think …
We are Hilary Loeb and Kelly Bay of the Research and Evaluation Department at the College Success Foundation. Many of our scholarship and support programs host events in which we collect data from students and educators. As internal evaluators, we often rely on colleagues to collect and enter survey data from these groups. The results …
