3: Evaluation education and data cleaning with Jennifer Ann Morrow
EvaluLand
English - July 07, 2020 12:00 - 55 minutes - 51.1 MBSocial Sciences Science Business Non-Profit evaluation Homepage Download Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
This week I am joined by Dr. Jennifer Ann Morrow, the program coordinator of the Evaluation Statistics and Measurement doctoral program (https://epc.utk.edu/evaluation-statistics-measurement/) (soon to be named "Evaluation Statistics and Methodology) at the University of Tennessee-Knoxville. We talked about teaching evaluation and data cleaning in evaluation.
Topics Covered:
Jennifer’s background, philosophy, and experience in teaching evaluation (01:58)
Our favorite evaluation activities: evaluating cookies, one-pages on hot topics and people in evaluation, evaluation failures, self-reflection journals, practical experience outside of class (11:33)
Personal professional development in data visualization and R (32:00)
What’s giving Jennifer life in evaluation right now (38:40)
Data cleaning book proposal by Jennifer and Gary Skolits (44:13)
What’s next for Jennifer (50:55)
Resources mentioned:
Preskill & Russ-Eft (2015) Building Evaluation Capacity: Activities for Teaching and Training (https://us.sagepub.com/en-us/nam/building-evaluation-capacity/book241833)
Wanzer (2020) What is evaluation paper (preprint) (https://osf.io/c9pf7/)
Hutchinson (2018) Evaluation Failures: 22 Tales of Mistakes Made and Lessons Learned (https://us.sagepub.com/en-us/nam/evaluation-failures/book260109)
Jennifer’s student’s blog on user experience for Ann K. Emery (https://depictdatastudio.com/three-takeaways-from-the-user-experience-ux-field-to-up-your-data-viz-game/)
Great Graphs with Ann K. Emery](https://depictdatastudio.com/)
R for the Rest of Us with David Keyes](https://rfortherestofus.com/)
Amy Cesal Play-Doh data visualization activity (https://www.amycesal.com/day-doh-viz-all)
Bianca Montrosse-Moorhead’s research on what ought to be included in the curriculum for master’s and doctoral eval programs (https://www.researchgate.net/publication/337032339_Evaluator_education_curriculum_What_ought_to_be_taught_in_master's_and_doctoral_programs)
Jennifer’s handout on the 12 steps to data cleaning](http://comm.eval.org/qual/viewdocument/cbd146-a-brief-intr-1)
Contact:
Jennifer Ann Morrow: @evaluationdiva on Twitter (https://twitter.com/evaluationdiva) and [email protected]
EvaluLand: Website (https://evaluland.fireside.fm/) & Twitter (@EvaluLand (https://twitter.com/evaluland))
Music by Matt Ingelson, http://www.mattingelsonmusic.com/ Special Guest: Jennifer Ann Morrow.
This week I am joined by Dr. Jennifer Ann Morrow, the program coordinator of the Evaluation Statistics and Measurement doctoral program (soon to be named "Evaluation Statistics and Methodology) at the University of Tennessee-Knoxville. We talked about teaching evaluation and data cleaning in evaluation.
Topics Covered:
Jennifer’s background, philosophy, and experience in teaching evaluation (01:58)
Our favorite evaluation activities: evaluating cookies, one-pages on hot topics and people in evaluation, evaluation failures, self-reflection journals, practical experience outside of class (11:33)
Personal professional development in data visualization and R (32:00)
What’s giving Jennifer life in evaluation right now (38:40)
Data cleaning book proposal by Jennifer and Gary Skolits (44:13)
What’s next for Jennifer (50:55)
Resources mentioned:
Preskill & Russ-Eft (2015) Building Evaluation Capacity: Activities for Teaching and Training
Wanzer (2020) What is evaluation paper (preprint)
Hutchinson (2018) Evaluation Failures: 22 Tales of Mistakes Made and Lessons Learned
Jennifer’s student’s blog on user experience for Ann K. Emery
Great Graphs with Ann K. Emery](https://depictdatastudio.com/)
R for the Rest of Us with David Keyes](https://rfortherestofus.com/)
Amy Cesal Play-Doh data visualization activity
Bianca Montrosse-Moorhead’s research on what ought to be included in the curriculum for master’s and doctoral eval programs
Jennifer’s handout on the 12 steps to data cleaning](http://comm.eval.org/qual/viewdocument/cbd146-a-brief-intr-1)
Contact:
Jennifer Ann Morrow: @evaluationdiva on Twitter and [email protected]
EvaluLand: Website & Twitter (@EvaluLand)
Music by Matt Ingelson, http://www.mattingelsonmusic.com/
Special Guest: Jennifer Ann Morrow.
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