Jul
26
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We are thrilled to announce that Erika Martinez Picazo has joined the NEC team as an Evaluator. Erika graduated from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln where she completed her Masters in Agricultural Economics (2007) and a Masters in Educational Leadership (2017). For the last five years, she worked as a qualitative analyst for Research Support Services,… Read More »
Posted in: Blog
Jul
26
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An NNLM interest group is developing a series of one-page documents called “Personas” to represent users of NNLM’s products and services. These Personas work as avatars or profiles of real users of NNLM resources like webinars, free training programs, and more. They are intended to assist anyone working on educational and community engagement materials and… Read More »
Posted in: Questionnaires and Surveys
Jun
24
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Stumble, failure, mistake, bungle, blunder, miscalculation, misstep. These words may carry a negative tone, however mistakes regularly provide important opportunities to learn, adapt, try new strategies, and inspire positive action on our teams and in our work. I’m a huge college basketball fan and can’t help but associate legendary basketball coach John Wooden with the topic… Read More »
Posted in: Thought Leadership
Jun
23
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The NNLM National Evaluation Center’s (NEC) Evaluation & Continuous Improvement (ECI) Core is thrilled to release NNLM Training Survey Tableau Dashboards, version 1.0. These dashboards, which are unique to each ROC, graphically present responses to the standard NNLM Training Survey, in a more approachable, user-friendly manner that empowers ROCs to leverage evaluation data to inform… Read More »
Posted in: Questionnaires and Surveys
May
24
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Spring is reporting season, and NNLM RMLs, Offices, and Centers across the country are thinking about their accomplishments over the past year and how best to reflect them. We can make use of existing stores of data to add context and communicate impact beyond typical reporting workflows, such as the RPPR, by employing visualization into our dissemination strategy. Quantitative… Read More »
Posted in: Data Visualization