Shift to Remote Online Work: Assets to Consider
2020
I’m the principal partner of Education Design in Boston, focusing on STEM program evaluation. I first engaged in online instruction and design...
Shift to Remote Online Work: Assets to Consider
Data Cleaning Tips in R*
2020
I recently came across a set of data cleaning tips in Excel from EvaluATE, which provides support for people looking to improve their evaluation practice....
Improving the Quality of Evaluation Data from Participants
2020
I have had experience evaluating a number of ATE projects, all of them collaborative projects among several four-year and two-year community colleges....
Building Capacity for High-Quality Data Collection
2020
As I, like everyone else, am adjusting to working at home and practicing social distancing, I have been thinking about how to...
Backtracking Alumni: Using Institutional Research and Reflective Inquiry to Improve Organizational Learning
2020
In a recent blog post, we shared practical tips for developing an alumni tracking program to assess students’ employment outcomes. Alumni tracking is an effective tool for assessing the quality...
Excel Quick Data-Cleaning Tips
2020
This 2020 guide provides quick data-cleaning tips in excel, including examples to address the what and how.
Increasing Response Rates*
2020
Higher response rates result in greater sample sizes and reduce bias. Research on ways to increase response rates for mail and Internet...
Utilization-focused Evaluation
2019
As seasoned evaluators committed to utilization-focused evaluation, we partner with clients to create questions and data analysis connected to continuous improvement. We...
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