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Best of AEA365: Participatory Qualitative Data Analysis by JT Taylor & Emily Drake

Leave a Comment / Qualitative Methods / August 25, 2021 August 20, 2021

Hi folks! I’m JT Taylor, Director of Research and Evaluation at Learning for Action (LFA), and I’m here with my colleague Emily Drake, Senior Consultant and Director of Portfolio Alignment. LFA is a San Francisco-based firm that enhances the impact and sustainability of social sector organizations through evaluation, research, strategy development, and capacity-building services. Emily …

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CP TIG Week: Tailoring Qualitative Methods to Evaluation Clients’ Needs by Jill Scheibler

2 Comments / Community Psychology / July 25, 2017 July 25, 2017

Hi folks! I’m Jill Scheibler, a community psychologist and Senior Research Analyst at Carson Research Consulting, a women-led firm whose mission is to help clients thrive by using data to measure impact, communicate, and fundraise. We’re passionate about storytelling with data to make a difference. At CRC I’m the “word nerd”, implementing our qualitative projects. …

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PE CoE Week: Patrick Koeppl on Authenticity and meaning in qualitative data analyses

Leave a Comment / Independent Consulting / October 31, 2016 October 30, 2016

I’m Patrick Koeppl, cultural anthropologist, mixed methods scientist, Halloween enthusiast and Managing Director at Deloitte Consulting LLP. Throughout my career, I have found mixed methods are often the leading way to conduct broad evaluation of complex systems and situations. Qualitative approaches like in-depth interviews, focus groups, participant observation, policy reviews, and many others have a …

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Memorial Week: Jennifer Greene on Remembering Egon Guba (1924-2008), Pioneer in Fourth Generation Evaluation

Leave a Comment / Uncategorized / May 25, 2016 May 21, 2016

This is part of a series remembering and honoring evaluation pioneers leading up to Memorial Day in the USA (May 30). My name is Jennifer Greene, a former AEA President and former co-editor of New Directions for Evaluation. Egon Guba, as both a scholar and a person, left an enduring transformative legacy to the field …

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JT Taylor and Emily Drake on Participatory Qualitative Data Analysis

1 Comment / Qualitative Methods / October 9, 2014 September 26, 2014

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CP TIG Week: Tara Gregory and Bailey Blair on Using Qualitative Data as a Catalyst for Youth Empowerment

Leave a Comment / Collaborative, Participatory and Empowerment Evaluation, Community Psychology, Youth Focused Evaluation / August 26, 2013 August 26, 2013

We’re Tara Gregory, Director of Research and Evaluation, and Bailey Blair, Youth Leadership in Kansas Program Associate, at Wichita State University’s Center for Community Support and Research (CCSR). CCSR was awarded a grant last year by the Kansas Department for Aging and Disability Services to provide technical assistance and research services to leadership groups for …

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Lisa R. Holliday on Using Microsoft Access to Code Qualitative Data

2 Comments / Qualitative Methods / August 15, 2013 August 15, 2013

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 …

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PD Presenters: Bob Kahle on Digital Qualitative Methods

Leave a Comment / Qualitative Methods / August 11, 2013 August 11, 2013

Hello! I am Bob Kahle and I have operated Kahle Research Solutions for nearly 20 years. I am a program evaluator and specialist in employing qualitative methods. I have written and trained extensively on managing difficult behaviors in groups (see Dominators, Cynics, and Wallflowers: Practical Strategies to Moderate Meaningful Focus Groups), but more recently have …

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Linda Cabral and Laura Sefton on Utilizing Survey Data in a Traditional In-Person Interview

Leave a Comment / Health Evaluation, Mixed Methods Evaluation / June 16, 2013 June 16, 2013

Greetings. We are Linda Cabral and Laura Sefton from the University of Massachusetts Medical School, Center for Health Policy and Research. We are part of a multi-disciplinary team evaluating the Massachusetts Patient Centered Medical Home Initiative (MA-PCMHI), a state-wide, multi-site demonstration project engaging 46 primary care practices in organizational transformation to adopt the PCMH primary …

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Linda Cabral and Laura Sefton on Using Voice Recognition Software for Transcription

6 Comments / Health Evaluation, Qualitative Methods / March 27, 2013 March 27, 2013

Hello, we are Linda Cabral and Laura Sefton from the Center for Health Policy and Research at UMass Medical School. We often collect qualitative data from interviews and focus groups. One challenge we frequently face is how to quickly and efficiently transcribe audio data. We have experimented using voice recognition software (VRS), and we’d like …

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