Howdy, fellow evaluators! We are Morgan Buras-Finlay and Eric Barela, Salesforce.Org’s Measurement & Evaluation team. In our post today, we will share what we’ve learned through our experience working in and providing support to the nonprofit sector, especially direct service and education organizations. In our experience, organizational data quality is most often a reflection of …
Hi, I’m Betsy Block, Principal & Founder of B3 Consults, and I’m excited to kick of this week talking about ensuring you’ve got GREAT DATA. I define “great data” as accurate, timely and most of all useful. As evaluators we want to focus a lot on using data, but we often have to help mission-driven …
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Hi, I’m Dan Swanson, Assistant Survey Research Manager at Wilder Research. I oversee our survey center where I am responsible for implementing and maintaining quality control measures throughout the data collection process. A phrase often repeated here at Wilder is, “No matter how you analyze or write about the data, its quality cannot get any …
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Hi, my name is Lacie Barber and I am the Statistics Counselor at Smith College in the Spinelli Center for Quantitative Learning. I have a Ph.D. in Industrial-Organizational Psychology and a minor in Research Methodology. Many researchers and practitioners work hard to develop and/or select psychometrically sound quantitative measures for their projects. Unfortunately, less attention …
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