I’m Sue Hamann, an evaluator for 40 years, and employed at the National Institutes of Health as a Health Scientist and Science Evaluation Officer. Many people who are not trained in the analytic sciences and social research sciences are called upon to conduct evaluations. For the last several years, I’ve tried to bring issues about …
Hello, I’m Nichelle Walton, Senior Associate – Organizational Performance at the Rockefeller Foundation, based in New York City. In 2019, the Rockefeller Foundation launched a pilot test of interactive voice response (IVR) to enable rapid, mobile data collection about its programs. Mobile data collection is attractive as a supplement to more traditional M&E approaches because …
Hello! We are Laura Beals and Barbara Perry, internal evaluators at Jewish Family & Children’s Service, a large social-service agency located outside of Boston, MA. We have been gathering feedback from clients and other constituents via surveys, often online, for many years, but we recently completed a needs assessment project in which we also wanted …
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Hi, I am Rick Davies, an Evaluation consultant, based in Cambridge, UK. The Basic Necessities Survey (BNS) is a method of measuring poverty that is: Simple to design and implement. The results are easy to analyse and to communicate to others Democratic in the way that it identifies what constitutes poverty and who is poor Rights-based, …
Greetings AEA colleagues. We are Carla Hillerns and Pei-Pei Lei – survey enthusiasts in the Office of Survey Research at the University of Massachusetts Medical School. In 2014, we shared a post about effective email subject lines for internet survey invitations. Today we’d like to focus on the body of the email. Here are strategies for writing email invitations …
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Hello! My name is Valerie Futch Ehrlich and I am the Evaluation and Research Lead for the Societal Advancement group at the Center for Creative Leadership. My team focuses on supporting our K-12, higher education, non-profit, and public health sector initiatives through evaluation and research. I want to share with you our recent experience using …
I am Holly Kipp, Researcher, from The Oregon Community Foundation (OCF). Today’s post shares some of what we’re learning through our efforts to measure social-emotional learning (SEL) in youth in the context of our K-12 Student Success Initiative. The Initiative, funded in partnership with The Ford Family Foundation, aims to help close the achievement gap …
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We are Caitlin Ruffenach, Researcher, and Kim Leonard, Senior Evaluation Officer, from The Oregon Community Foundation (OCF). Among other things, we are working on an evaluation of the Studio to School Initiative at OCF, which focuses on the development of sustainable arts education programs through partnerships between arts organizations and schools. This past summer, in …
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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Hi, I’m Wendy DuBow, a senior research scientist and director of evaluation at the National Center for Women & Information Technology (NCWIT). Our mission is to increase the meaningful participation of women in technology fields. We focus on sharing theory- and evidence-based practices with stakeholders in education and industry to support them as they recruit, …
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