My name is Sebastian. Before pursuing my PhD at UCLA, I served as a senior evaluation consultant at Ramboll Management – a Copenhagen-based consulting firm. My current interests revolve around research syntheses and causal modeling techniques. A common practice in evaluation is to examine the existing body of evidence of the type of intervention to …
2-for-1 Week: Sebastian Lemire on Causation Coding Read More »
We are Frances Lawrenz and Amy Grack Nelson, University of Minnesota, and Marjorie Bequette, Science Museum of Minnesota (where Amy works, too). We are members of the Complex Adaptive Systems as a Model for Network Evaluations (CASNET) research team. When we started this project, complexity theory seemed exciting, but daunting. What is complexity theory, you …
We are Mya Martin-Glenn and Lisa M. Jones, and we work in the Division of Accountability & Research at Aurora Public Schools in Colorado. We will be sharing how external evaluators can learn some of the nuances of requesting school data. We also will give you a few hot tips for attending the AEA conference …
LAWG Week: Mya Martin-Glenn & Lisa M. Jones on Evaluation in Public School Districts Read More »
I am Lisa R. Holliday, an Evaluation Associate at The Evaluation Group in Columbia, SC. I was on an evaluation team that recently completed a needs assessment in a large rural school district. On one survey, there were 3,277 student responses to two open-ended questions. Initially, I planned to take a sample, rather than analyze …
Lisa R. Holliday on Using Microsoft Access to Code Qualitative Data Read More »
Hi. I’m Susan Eliot, an independent consultant who specializes in qualitative methods. I live in Portland, Oregon but work with nonprofit and government agencies nationwide. In addition, I write a qualitative blog and teach workshops on qualitative topics. Anselm Strauss once said: “Any researcher who wishes to become proficient at doing qualitative analysis must learn …
Susan Eliot on Attributes of a Successful Qualitative Coder Read More »
