This presentation explored data collection issues faced by external evaluators (contractors) to meet evaluation design and data collection needs, including: • the challenge of meeting client needs that are not always fully conveyed in requests for proposal (RFP) or Question and Answer interactions; • ensuring validity when cost/time limitations may allow limited instrument pre-testing; • addressing Institutional Review Board (IRB) issues; and • working with federal government evaluators to fulfill US Paperwork Reduction Act (PRA) reviews; topics will include the structure of the review process and types of information needed and the complications introduced by time and resource constraints
2016 AEA Federal Data Collection Bernstein.pptx
Material distributed at Roundtable Presentation #743, Evaluation 2011, Anaheim, CA. The 2-page document explains why the presenter chose to examine this topic, contextual distinctions that may influence evaluation approaches, questions upon which to reflect, an abbreviated listing of the AEA...
Straddling Int&Ext Eval Role.pdf
The majority of US federal government evaluations are conducted by external evaluators. However, conducting evaluations is just one of the roles that external evaluators can play to help expand and build evaluation capacity in federal agencies
2016 Bernstein Hamilton Evaluation Contracting Final.pptx
Presentation at the Ignite Session #304, held on Thursday, Oct 17, 2013 - 2013 AEA Conference, Washington D.C. #KnowledgeTransfer #NationalEvaluation #InternationalandCross-CulturalEval #Indonesia #2013Conference #OrganizationalLearningandEvalCapacityBuilding
304_4_Dwiagus.pptx
Presentation from AEA 2016 Conference (Eval16) providing perspectives from a funder, external evaluators, and NGO partners regarding a partner-centered evaluation capacity-building initiative
AEA HF slides FINAL (10-26-2016).pdf
This handout describes the case, "Funder and External Evaluator as Learning Partners" presented in Think Tank Session 708 by Cohen Research & Evaluation, LLC and the Comprehensive Health Education Foundation
Case Study Burgoyne_Cohen_10_10_13.pdf
Poster presentation 279: Evaluation 2015 -- We look at the challenges and benefits of creating and using a fully articulated program theory model from the perspective of the PI and program stakeholders and from the external evaluator. We use the term "program theory model" to reflect a model that goes beyond the inputs and outputs of a simple logic model, that incorporates the context (and partners) in which the program operates and where a theory of change model is explicitly embedded
CTTI AEA Conference Poster 2015 FINAL.pdf
Meta House, Inc. has an experienced internal evaluation department, an established partnership with an external evaluation team, and existing expertise in collecting client-level data
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The SES program provides free-of-cost academic assistance for eligible students, over and above regular school hours. This external evaluation examined the performance of the statewide SES providers on the basis of: (1) student attendance, (2) parental satisfaction, and (3) academic achievement of participating students. In 2011, SERVE was contracted to conduct the external evaluation for statewide SES programming for a second year
SES Poster Handout.AEA 2011.pdf
Excerpt: Independent external evaluators generally have to work within a range of constraints...This article presents an example of how a team of external evaluators worked around these constraints on an evaluation in the education sector