literature review

CMM TIG Week: Using Literature Review in Cluster Evaluation by Mika Yoder Yamashita

My name is Mika Yoder Yamashita. I am the qualitative evaluation lead for the Center for Educational Policy and Practice at Academy for Educational Development. Our Center has been conducting process and outcome evaluations of the federally funded program, Gaining Early Awareness and Readiness for Undergraduate Programs (GEAR UP).  This program aims at increasing college access among disadvantaged students.  As we are evaluating programs implemented in several sites, we are beginning to explore the possibility of conducting a multi-site evaluation. Today I will share my Center’s thoughts on how we can effectively approach conducting a multi-site evaluation that uses qualitative data to understand the process of program implementation. Then I will share how we use the literature to guide our data collection and analysis.

Kristin Abner on The Self-Sufficiency Research Clearinghouse: An Online Tool to Support Evaluation

Greetings! My name is Dr. Kristin Abner, and I work at ICF International, a consulting firm offering professional services and technology-based solutions to government and commercial clients. I work in the Education, Community & Social Programs Division of ICF’s Social & Analytic Solutions Group. I’d like to share a relevant resource to evaluators, as well …

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Laura Sefton on Searching for Literature Using Google Scholar

Hi! I’m Laura Sefton, Project Analyst in the University of Massachusetts Medical School’s Center for Health Policy and Research. The school’s Lamar Soutter Library gives me access to a database of peer-reviewed journals and resources like Science Citation Index and PubMed to inform the literature searches and survey instrument research that I conduct for many …

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Best of aea365: Monica Hargraves and Miranda Fang on Operationalizing the “Golden Spike” – Practical Guidance for Literature Searches to Complement Program Evaluation

Hello! We are Monica Hargraves and Miranda Fang, from the Cornell Office for Research on Evaluation.  We presented together at Eval2012 would like to share some practical tips on literature searches in the context of evaluation. 2016 Update: Monica Hargraves is now Associate Director for Evaluation Partnerships at the Cornell Office for Research on Evaluation; Miranda Fang is now Manager, …

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Julie Goldman on Public Health Resources to Support Evaluation Work

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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2-for-1 Week: Sebastian Lemire on Causation Coding

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 …

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Judy Savageau and Len Levin on Today’s Librarian and Building an Evaluation Team

We are Judy Savageau and Len Levin from the University of Massachusetts Medical School’s Center for Health Policy and Research (CHPR) and Lamar Soutter Library, respectively. Back in November, we introduced you to a week’s worth of lessons learned, hot tips and rad resources for how the literature (written and electronic) and various databases provide …

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Literature Search Strategy Week: Judy Nordberg and Nancy Harger on Citation Management

Hello, we are Judy Nordberg and Nancy Harger, librarians at the Lamar Soutter Library, University of Massachusetts Medical School. So now you have some new ideas of where and how to find good information/data. But how can you manage all of it? Some of you may harken back to the “old days” of writing college …

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Literature Search Strategy Week: Lisa Palmer on Using My NCBI to Save PubMed Searches and Citations and Customize Your Display

Hello! My name is Lisa Palmer. I’m a librarian in the Lamar Soutter Library at the University of Massachusetts Medical School. As my colleague Molly Higgins pointed out in her Top Ten Databases blog post earlier this week, PubMed is a key database to search for biomedical literature. The goal of this post is to …

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Literature Search Strategy Week: Len Levin on Understanding and Finding Grey Literature

Hello, my name is Len Levin and I am a librarian at the Lamar Soutter Library, University of Massachusetts Medical School. Using the databases and search tips outlined in the previous two posts for this week can go a long way to finding good information when conducting research and evaluation projects. But what happens when …

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