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  • Knight lab - storytelling tools

    This suite of tools is useful for creating highly interactive, beautiful representations of data.
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  • Program Evaluation: a Plain English Guide

    This 11-step guide defines program evaluation, what it is used for, the different types and when they should be used. Also covered is how to plan a program evaluation, monitor performance, communicate findings, deliver&n
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  • Canva

    Canva is a very simple, free to use, online infographic creation platform. It has a drag and drop interface and a range of templates that you can adapt.
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  • Discussion Paper: Innovations in Monitoring and Evaluation

    This discussion paper produced by the United Nations Development Programme discusses various innovations that are occurring in M&E, and the advantages and disadvantages of these methods.
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  • Social network analysis in program evaluation

    This special edition of New Directions for Evaluation from the American Evaluation Association (AEA) provides nine articles on social network analysis in program evaluation.
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  • Planting the seeds for high-quality program evaluation in public health

    This free e-text book, created as a collaboration between the evaluation staff at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s National Asthma Control Program and Fierro Consulting Inc., provides a practical introduction to program eval
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  • Some nuts and bolts questions about coding

    This guest blog by Helen Marshall springs from discussions of the Qualitative Interest Group (QIG) that Helen coordinates. QIG meets monthly in Melbourne Australia to discuss issues around researching with qualitative data.&n
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  • Planning a program evaluation

    This guide from the University of Wisconsin Cooperative Extension is designed to support the planning of a program evaluation.
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  • Using case studies to do program evaluation

    This paper, authored by Edith D. Balbach for the California Department of Health Services is designed to help evaluators decide whether to use a case study evaluation approach.
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  • Coding part 2: Thematic coding

    This video tutorial from Graham H Gibbs (2010) provides an overview of thematic coding and examples to demostrate how it is done and how codes can be applied to the data.
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  • Coding part 1: Alan Bryman's 4 stages of qualitative analysis

    In this web video, Graham R Gibbs provides an overview of qualitative analysis based on Alan Bryman's four stages of analysis.
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  • Analysing qualitative data using Microsoft Word

    In this slide show, Jenna Condie, who is presenting a Qualitative Methods in Psychology (QMiP) workshop, explains how Word supports detailed coding, including developing detailed definitions of the codes and tracking comments and emerging i
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  • Using Word & Excel to analyze qualitative data with Seth Tucker

    Extracting meaningful findings from qualitative data requires an evaluator to have the right tools to able to organize, code, and immerse themselves in the data.
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  • The art of coding with NVivo

    During this virtual workshop, Dr. Penna presented how NVivo, qualitative data analysis software is used to code data, document the data analysis process, and present a visual presentation of the results to increase credibility. 
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  • Joint Committee on Standards for Educational Evaluation (JCSEE) program evaluation standards in practice

    This resource provides a practical guide for evaluators to apply the Program Evaluation Standards developed by the Joint Committee on Standards for Educational Evaluation (JCSEE)
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  • Qualitative research & evaluation methods: Integrating theory and practice

    The fourth edition of Michael Quinn Patton's Qualitative Research & Evaluation Methods Integrating Theory and Practice, published by Sage Publications, analyses and provides clear guidance and advice for usi
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  • Thematic coding

    Thematic coding is a form of qualitative analysis that involves recording or identifying passages of text or images that are linked by a common theme or idea allowing you to index the text into categories and therefore establish a “framewor
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