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Ama Nyame-Mensah on Using & Constructing Likert Scales In Evaluation Research

4 Comments / Quantitative Methods: Theory and Design / February 14, 2016

My name is Ama Nyame-Mensah, and I am a doctoral student in the Social Welfare program at the University of Pennsylvania. Likert scales are commonly used in program evaluation. However, despite their widespread popularity, Likert scales are often misused and poorly constructed, which can result in misleading evaluation outcomes. Consider the following tips when using …

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Ama Nyame-Mensah on Dealing with Demographic Data

4 Comments / Quantitative Methods: Theory and Design / January 24, 2016

Hi, I’m Ama Nyame-Mensah. I am a doctoral student at the University of Pennsylvania’s School of Social Policy & Practice. In this post, I will share with you some lessons learned about incorporating demographic variables into surveys or questionnaires. For many, the most important part of a survey or questionnaire is the demographics section. Not …

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LGBT TIG Week: Emily A. Greytak on So….You Want to Identify LGBTQ People in Your Evaluation? Ask These 4 Questions First

2 Comments / Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgender Issues / December 30, 2015

I’m Emily Greytak, the Director of Research at GLSEN, a national organization addressing lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ) issues in K-12 education. At GLSEN, we are particularly interested in the experiences of LGBTQ people, but also know that it’s important to identify LGBTQ individuals in even more general evaluation research – whether just …

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LGBT TIG Week: Leia K. Cain on Avoiding Binaries in Evaluation

1 Comment / Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgender Issues / December 26, 2015

Welcome to the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Evaluation Topical Interest Group (LGBT TIG) week on aea365! My name is Leia K. Cain, and I’m an instructor at the University of South Florida in the Educational Measurement and Research program. This week, I’m acting as the coordinator for the LGBT TIG’s blog posts. One area …

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Carla Hillerns and Pei-Pei Lei on a Quest to Eliminate Double-Barreled Survey Questions

Leave a Comment / Quantitative Methods: Theory and Design / December 20, 2015

We are Carla Hillerns and Pei-Pei Lei from the Office of Survey Research at the University of Massachusetts Medical School’s Center for Health Policy and Research. We’d like to discuss a common mistake in surveys – double-barreled questions. As the name implies, a double-barreled question asks about two topics, which can lead to issues of …

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Pei-Pei Lei and Carla Hillerns on Smart Survey Design: Randomization of Response Options

2 Comments / Quantitative Methods: Theory and Design / April 12, 2015

Hi, we are Pei-Pei Lei and Carla Hillerns from the Office of Survey Research at the University of Massachusetts Medical School. Have you ever selected an answer to a survey question without reading all of the choices? Maybe you paid more attention to the first choice than the rest? Today, we’d like to share a …

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Carla Hillerns and Pei-Pei Lei on You had me at Hello: Effective Email Subject Lines for Survey Invitations

2 Comments / Quantitative Methods: Theory and Design / August 10, 2014

Did we get your attention? We hope so. We are Carla Hillerns and Pei-Pei Lei – survey enthusiasts at the Office of Survey Research at the University of Massachusetts Medical School. An email subject line can be a powerful first impression of an online survey. It has the potential to convince someone to open your …

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Andrea Crews-Brown, Tom McKlin, Brandi Villa and Shelly Engelman on Analysis of Retrospective Surveying

1 Comment / Quantitative Methods: Theory and Design / June 8, 2014

Hi!  This is Andrea Crews-Brown, Tom McKlin, and Brandi Villa with SageFox Consulting Group, a privately owned evaluation firm with offices in Amherst, MA and Atlanta, GA, and Shelly Engelman with the School District of Philadelphia. Today we’d like to share results of a recent survey analysis. Lessons Learned: Retrospective vs. Traditional Surveying Evaluators typically implement …

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Ann Gillard on Measuring Fun in Summer Camp

2 Comments / Quantitative Methods: Theory and Design / March 17, 2014

Howdy! I’m Ann Gillard, Ph.D., Director of Research and Evaluation at The Hole in the Wall Gang Camp, located in Ashford, CT. The Hole in the Wall Gang Camp was founded by Paul Newman in 1988 and serves children and families in our region who are living with serious and life-threatening illnesses through summer camp, …

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Steve Young on Making Evaluation Surveys More Appealing

2 Comments / Quantitative Methods: Theory and Design / March 17, 2014

I’m Steve Young, a recent evaluation post-doctoral fellow at the Center for Creative Leadership (CCL) in Greensboro, NC. Currently, I work at Design Interactive in Oveido, FL. Have you ever thought about how you could make evaluation surveys more “catchy?” Rad Resource: Read “Contagious” by Jonah Berger which offers some research-based tips for how anyone …

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