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YFE TIG Week: Interviewing Minors in Schools by Christine Crumbacher and Michael Sikes

Leave a Comment / Youth Focused Evaluation / November 21, 2022

This post was original released on AEA365 in 2020, and was so popular the first time around, it is being reshared from the archives at the request of the Youth Focused Evaluation TIG. We are Christine Crumbacher, PhD, Evaluation Specialist at Greenville County Schools in South Carolina, and Michael Sikes, PhD, independent Program Evaluator. Each …

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Analyzing Interview Data by Beverly Peters

Leave a Comment / Qualitative Methods, Uncategorized / October 27, 2020

Greetings! I am Beverly Peters, assistant professor of Measurement and Evaluation at American University. This is the final article in a 5-part series on Using Interviews for Monitoring and Evaluation. In previous articles, we discussed conducting good interviews, including crafting good questions and interview guides, and learning the skills of a good interviewer.   Before you …

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Collecting Useful Data from Interviews by Beverly Peters

3 Comments / Qualitative Methods, Uncategorized / October 26, 2020

Greetings! I am Beverly Peters, an assistant professor of Measurement and Evaluation at American University. This is the fourth article in a 5 part series on Using Interviews for Monitoring and Evaluation. In the previous article of this series, we discussed different sampling strategies that evaluators might employ when deciding who to interview. So far in …

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Interviewing Minors in Schools

8 Comments / Prek-12 Educational Evaluation, Qualitative Methods, Youth Focused Evaluation / October 4, 2020

We are Christine Crumbacher, PhD, Evaluation Specialist at Greenville County Schools in South Carolina, and Michael Sikes, PhD, independent Program Evaluator. Each of us evaluates educational programs that serve young people. Interviewing minors presents unique challenges. These include obtaining parental consent, interviewee participation, protecting participants, and collecting detailed data. Hot Tip: Know district policies concerning …

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Independent Evaluator Lessons from the Hilton Lobby Bar: A Drama in Two Acts by Kathleen Sullivan

1 Comment / Uncategorized / February 29, 2020

The Scene: Three people sit at the common table at the Hilton Minneapolis Hotel lobby bar. It’s Wednesday noon, a few hours before the AEA annual conference starts. The Characters: “Humble Evaluator”: Kathleen Sullivan from Fine Gauge Strategy. Eavesdropping on Brandon’s interview for a sales position with Nigel’s firm while trying to review the AEA …

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Creating Solid Interview Guides by Laura Sefton and Linda Cabral

Leave a Comment / Qualitative Methods / November 26, 2017

Greetings! We are Laura Sefton from the University of Massachusetts Medical School’s Center for Health Policy and Research and Linda Cabral from Care Transformation Collaborative-Rhode Island. When choosing qualitative interviews as the data collection method for your evaluation project, developing an appropriate interview guide is key to gathering the information you need. The interviews should …

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Providing Pediatric Asthma Home Visits by Community Health Workers – Lessons Learned by David McCarthy

2 Comments / Health Evaluation / July 8, 2017

Hi! I’m David McCarthy, a 4th year medical student at the University of Massachusetts Medical School. I had the opportunity to get involved in the Prevention Wellness Trust Fund (PWTF), a project run by the Massachusetts Department of Public Health that works to combat treatable chronic medical conditions by integrating clinical and community interventions. I …

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QUAL Eval Week: Janet Usinger on Interviewing People Who are Challenging

Leave a Comment / Qualitative Methods / February 22, 2015

Hi, I’m Janet Usinger, another of the co-leaders of the Qualitative Methods TIG, and a co-editor with Leslie Goodyear, Jennifer Jewiss, and Eric Barela of a new book about qualitative evaluation called Qualitative Inquiry in Evaluation: From Theory to Practice (2014, Jossey-Bass). The process of interviewing participants in an evaluation shares a few characteristics with …

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EEE Week: Siri Scott on Conducting Interviews with Youth

Leave a Comment / Extension Education Evaluation / April 4, 2014

Hi, I’m Siri Scott, and I work as a Graduate Assistant with the University of Minnesota Extension. Conducting interviews with youth is one way to consider gathering information for program improvement, especially when you want to bring youth voice into your improvement process. While more time intensive than doing a survey, interviews will provide you …

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Xin Wang, Neeley Current, and Gary Westergren on Using Think-aloud Interviewing to Evaluate Web Applications

Leave a Comment / Integrating Technology into Evaluation, Needs Assessment, Research, Technology and Development Evaluation / February 26, 2011

Hello! We are Xin Wang, Neeley Current, and Gary Westergren. We work at the Information Experience Laboratory (IE Lab) of the School of Information Science & Learning Technologies at the University of Missouri.  The IE lab is a usability laboratory that conducts research and evaluates technology. What is usability? According to Jakob Nielsen’s definition, usability …

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