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How To Simplify Complex Systems Change Initiatives to Design Effective Evaluations by Elizabeth McGee

Leave a Comment / Uncategorized / March 6, 2020 February 29, 2020

Hi! I’m Elizabeth McGee, founder of LEAP Consulting. LEAP helps nonprofits, foundations, and public institutions achieve impact through meaningful evaluations and strategic support. As a consultant specializing in evaluating systems change, I have the opportunity to work with clients whose efforts target large-scale systems, and this requires the ability to simplify seemingly abstract initiatives in …

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BH TIG Week: A Call for a Systems Approach to Behavioral Health Evaluation by Roger A. Boothroyd

2 Comments / Behavioral Health / August 20, 2017 August 19, 2017

Hello, I’m Roger A. Boothroyd from the University of South Florida. One thing I have learned from conducting mental health services research over the past 30 years: Research repeatedly documents that approximately two-thirds of adults diagnosed with a mental health disorder have at least one physical health condition. It is also well known that comorbidity …

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Memorial Week: Sara Miller McCune on Remembering Marcia Guttentag (1933-1977), Pioneer in establishing evaluation as a distinct field

1 Comment / Uncategorized / May 22, 2016 May 21, 2016

This is the beginning of a series remembering and honoring evaluation pioneers leading up to Memorial Day in the USA on May 30. My name is Sara Miller McCune, Co-founder and Chair of Sage Publications. In 1975, Sage published the 2-volume Handbook of Evaluation Research co-edited by Marcia Guttentag. That Handbook helped establish Evaluation as a distinct field of …

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Bob Williams: A Systems Practitioner’s Journey

1 Comment / Systems in Evaluation / November 16, 2014 November 15, 2014

Kia Ora! I’m Bob Williams. In our book Systems Concepts in Action : A Practitioner’s Toolkit, Richard Hummelbrunner and I distinguished between describing situations, thinking systemically, and being systemic. I’ve see these notions describing three stages of a journey. As you read these three scenario, pose yourself the following questions. How well do the scenario …

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Wilder Research Week: Brian Pittman on Complex Systems

2 Comments / Nonprofits and Foundations Evaluation, Systems in Evaluation / August 9, 2012 July 27, 2012

Hello, I am Brian Pittman, a Research Associate at Wilder Research. Our work involves many different topics, scopes, and stakeholders, but an increasing proportion of our projects deal with complexity. Therefore, we work to learn and use the principles and practices of complex systems in our work. This post includes a brief primer of the …

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Systems Week: Morell on An Invitation to Test Integration of Traditional Eval & Agent Based Modeling

1 Comment / Systems in Evaluation / October 18, 2010 October 22, 2010

Hi, I’m Jonny Morell and I’m looking for people interested in how agent based modeling can be combined with traditional evaluation methods. For the past few years, I have been thinking and writing a lot about how evaluation can anticipate and respond to unexpected changes in programs. The difficulty as I see it is that …

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Systems Week: Ozturk & Lawton on Using Systems Thinking to Evaluate Ed Partnerships

Leave a Comment / Prek-12 Educational Evaluation, Systems in Evaluation / October 15, 2010 October 22, 2010

Greetings, Our names are Mehmet “Dali” Ozturk, Associate Vice President of Research, Evaluation and Development and Kerry Lawton, Senior Research Specialist from Arizona State University’s Office of the Vice President for Education Partnerships (VPEP). Our office works with P-20, public and private sector partners to enhance the academic performance of students in high need communities. Along …

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Systems Week: Jan Noga on the Systems in Evaluation TIG

Leave a Comment / Systems in Evaluation / October 10, 2010 October 11, 2010

Hello! My name is Jan Noga and I am an independent consultant and owner of Pathfinder Evaluation and Consulting in Cincinnati, Ohio, focusing on the evaluation of K-12 programs and support services at both the local and statewide levels. I am also the chair of the Systems in Evaluation TIG. The TIG is pleased to sponsor …

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