I am Efrain Gutierrez and I work for FSG, a nonprofit consulting firm that helps foundations, nonprofits and corporations increase their social impact. Before working for FSG I worked for the US Consulate in Guadalajara Mexico where I experienced a lot interaction between Mexicans and Americans. My work at the consulate helped me discover and …
My name is Susan Kistler. I am the American Evaluation Association’s Executive Director and contributor of each Saturday’s aea365. Today, I’m going to continue with our short series on online surveying. Here are the posts to date: 7/13: Corinne Poth on Skip Logic for Online Surveys 7/2: Susan Kistler on Formatting Categorical and Multiple Choice …
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I am Corinne Poth and I want to think about shortcuts in surveys. Not so much shortcuts in creating your survey, but more shortcuts that help your respondents to respond to your survey in the shortest path possible. Towards that end (and with her blessing), I thought that I would add to the first post …
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I’m Susan Kistler, AEA’s Executive Director, and contributor of each Saturday’s aea365 post. Many moons ago, I taught survey design and worked as a consultant and trainer with a focus on evaluation planning and instrument development for nonprofit grantees. Today, I want to draw on that background to start an intermittent series on online surveying …
My name is David Roberts and I’m an independent consultant in evaluation and market research working out of Canberra, Australia. We recently had a discussion on AEA’s LinkedIn group focusing on using scales in surveys. While I am not an expert in analyzing scales here are some things I have found useful: Rad Resource – …
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Hello, I’m Jessica Foster, a Research and Evaluation Analyst at Franklin County Children Services. Our agency provides child protective services for the Central Ohio area. During the course of my career, I have administered many surveys to a variety of stakeholders and clients. I’ve learned from my work and from the experiences shared by my …
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Hello. I’m Antonio J. Castro, and I am an assistant professor in the Department of Learning, Teaching, and Curriculum at the University of Missouri-Columbia. I teach courses in qualitative research and have been project director and coordinator for a variety of grant-funded initiatives. Project directors are constantly tasked with trying to represent the quality of …
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My name is Mario Lurig, and I am the Technical Training Manager at SurveyGizmo, leading documentation, webinars, and other methods for educating evaluators on using our online survey tool. Regardless of how you collect evaluation data, the data collected requires protection and careful handling to ensure that the results from your respondents are kept in …
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Hi, my name is Lacie Barber and I am the Statistics Counselor at Smith College in the Spinelli Center for Quantitative Learning. I have a Ph.D. in Industrial-Organizational Psychology and a minor in Research Methodology. Many researchers and practitioners work hard to develop and/or select psychometrically sound quantitative measures for their projects. Unfortunately, less attention …
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My name is Zita Unger. I am director of a private consulting company in Australia offering online corporate diagnostic tools. I also participate in a program for company directors that provides a confidential forum to share experiences of directorship and discuss current challenges faced by directors. One recent company director session centered on a credit …
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