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July 2019
QDA 2.0: Making qualitative analysis more explicit, less academic, and more community-centered
Presenter: Kari Greene, Senior Evaluator at The InQuire Group Location: Northwest Health Foundation, Ramona Soto Rank Room, 221 NW Second Avenue, Suite 300, Portland, OR Qualitative data analysis (QDA) can be steeped in academic jargon and opaque terms, leaving some evaluators with a sense of mystery and uncertainty around the actual QDA process. Publications cite the “constant comparative method” or “grounded theory approach” in their methods section but often fail to describe the particular analytic steps. Evaluators need explicit…
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Independent Consultants Gathering and Practice Share Kick-Off
Many members of OPEN are independent consultants, working on their own and in collaboration with small groups of colleagues. While life as an independent consultant has many benefits, it also comes with unique challenges, ranging from business planning to paying the right taxes to finding well-qualified collaborators. Taking inspiration from the American Evaluation Association’s Independent Consultants Topical Interest Group (TIG), we’re launching an independent consultants’ practice share in Oregon! Our goal is to form a community of colleagues who share…
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Effective Evaluation Reporting: Making Your Key Messages Sticky (with Kylie Hutchinson)
Join us for this premier half-day training led by Kylie Hutchinson on September 10th at 9:00 a.m. About the event Effective Evaluation Reporting: Making Your Key Messages Sticky The evaluation profession has wholeheartedly embraced newer and more innovative forms of reporting over the years such as infographics, two-page reports, slidedocs, and story maps. But these briefer forms of communication require us to condense our extensive findings into much shorter content. Making our key messages “sticky” is critical for reducing the…
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