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Jul
31
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Mission statements are important. Organizations use them to declare to the world how their work matters. They are the North Star for employees, guiding their efforts toward supporting organizational priorities. And mission statements are important to evaluators, because evaluation methods are ultimately designed to assess an organization’s value. Having those values explicitly stated is very… Read More »
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Jul
23
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New to the world of evaluation? What is your boss talking about when she says she wants you to measure outcomes, not outputs? What is an indicator? How many responses should you get from your surveys? Sometimes people think evaluation is just the form that you fill out at the end of a class or… Read More »
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Jul
17
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If you want a systematic way to analyze interview data, check out the Rapid Identification of Themes from Audio Recordings (RITA) method described in Neal et al. (2014). This method skips the time-consuming transcription process, because you conduct your analysis while listening to the recordings. Also, the process maintains nonverbal elements of your data (i.e.,… Read More »
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Jul
10
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How does your web survey look on a handheld device? Did you check? The Pew Research Center reported that 27% of respondents to one of its recent surveys answered using a smartphone. Another 8% used a tablet. That means over one-third of participants used handheld devices to answer the questionnaire. Lesson learned: Unless you are absolutely sure… Read More »
Posted in: Questionnaires and Surveys
Jul
02
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Last week, I wrote about program success stories. As a follow-up, I want to introduce you to a story builder tool available at the CDC Injury Prevention and Control web site. The story builder takes you through three steps to produce an attractive, well-written program success story. Each step offers downloadable Microsoft Word documents to… Read More »
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