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Evaluation Planning
- Don't Let Evaluation Planning Give You Nightmares (Oct 2013)
- Framing Evaluation with the Right Plan (Oct 2013)
- How to Select an Evaluator (Oct 2013)
- Making Data-informed CX Decisions (Sep 2013)
- Choosing the Right Evaluation Activities for Your Plan (Nov 2012)
- Getting the Most from Your Evaluation Partnership (Summer 2010)
- Creating a Colorful Evaluation Plan (Fall 2009)
- Q & A about Developing Evaluation Plans (Fall 2009)
- What makes a good evaluation plan? (Fall 2009)
Working in Cultural Contexts
- Gaining Entry into Latino Communities (Winter 2011)
- Working with American Indian Communities (Fall 2011)
- Including Other Voices through Culturally Competent Evaluation (Summer 2010)
- Following Cultural Clues among Asian/Pacific Islanders (Summer 2009)
- Why Culture Matters (Summer 2009)
Developing Instruments
- Survey Design Strategies (Oct 2014)
- Pilot Testing: No License Required (Winter 2011)
- Will Data Collection Instruments Collect Information We Need? (Fall 2010)
- Adapting a Public Opinion Survey for a Low SES Population (Summer 2009)
- End-use Strategizing for Data Collection Instrument Creation (Summer 2009)
Collecting Data
- Mapping Your Coalition's Assets (Oct 2014)
- Retail Campaign Data Collection (Mar 2014)
- Working with Young People as Data Collectors (Mar 2014)
- Say It with Pictures! (Sep 2013)
- Insider Tips on Product Placement in Stores (June 2013)
- The Do's and Don'ts of Data Collection (June 2013)
- Improving the Retail Environment through Evaluation (Nov 2012)
- Don't Get Spooked about Retail Data Collection (Oct 2012)
- Pursuing 'No Smoking' Policies with Taco Trucks (June 2012)
- Using Photographs in Evaluation (Spring 2011)
- Working on Smoke-free College Campaigns (Spring 2011)
- Practice Makes Perfect Data Collectors (Winter 2011)
- The Life of the Unobtrusive Observer (Winter 2011)
- Producing Usable Data for a Smoke-free Casino Objective (Winter 2010)
- Challenges of Doing Evaluation in Rural Areas (Fall 2010)
- Documenting Project Decisions (Fall 2010)
- Making the Most of Your Volunteers (Fall 2010)
Using Mobile Technology
- 10 Things You'll Love About Handheld Devices (Nov 2012)
- iSURVEY, you SURVEY, we all SURVEY (Nov 2012)
- Data at the Touch of the Screen (Jun 2012)
- Save Time by Automating Data Entry (Spring 2011)
Analyzing Data
- What to Expect from Retail Campaign Datasets (Sep 2013)
- Writing Analytic Memos (Jun 2012)
- Deriving Meaning with Qualitative Analysis (Winter 2010)
- Doing Quantitative Analysis (Winter 2010)
Data Visualization
- The Role of Data Visualization in Media Coverage (Oct 2014)
- Delivering Key Messages with a Punch (April 2014)
- Visual Representation of Data (Spring 2010)
- Creating Beautiful Evaluation Results (Winter 2010)
Reporting Results
- Writing the Bridge Year Brief Evaluation Reports (April 2014)
- Looking for Lift in Final Evaluation Reports (Dec 2013)
- Reporting Evaluation Results (Mar 2013)
- The Difference Between FERs and BERs (Mar 2013)
- Read All About It: Repackaging Results (Mar 2013)
- Scoring Final Evaluation Reports (Dec 2013)
- Don't Mess with Mother Nature (Fall 2011)
- Writing Up Data Collection Results (Spring 2011)
- Lessons Learned from Evaluation Activities (Summer 2011)
- The Art of Persuasion (Summer 2011)
- Using FER Feedback to Tell a Better Story (Summer 2010)
- Q & A about Evaluation Reporting (Spring 2010)
- Summary Reports Capture Strategies from Projects (Spring 2010)
- Two Elements of Writing a Good Final Evaluation Report (Spring 2010)
Using Social Media
Evaluation Superheroes
- Retail Campaign Superhero: Melissa Peters (Jul 2014)
- Retail Campaign Superhero: Jennifer Lifshay (Mar 2014)
- Retail Campaign Superhero: April Eagan (Dec 2013)
- Retail Campaign Superhero: Jeremy Wilson (Oct 2013)
- Dataman: Device Outage (Jul 2014)
- Dataman: Data Visualization (Apr 2014)
- Evaluator Spotlight: Allison Burke (Oct 2012)
- A Kern County Success Story (Fall 2011)