3: Evaluation education and data cleaning with Jennifer Ann Morrow
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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. Sponsored By: MS in Applied Psychology program at UW-Stout: Apply now to join the Fall 2020 cohort and get your Master's of Science degree in Applied Psychology. The degree offers three concentrations: evaluation, organizational psychology, and health promotion. This program will give you the applied research and data analysis skills to prepare you for a wide-range of careers in evaluation, business, education, non-profits, and other areas.Support EvaluLand
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