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Showing 1 to 8 of 8 for “"evaluation - qualitative"”.
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User evaluation of learning resource programs in Virginia community colleges
… study was to determine the relationship between qualitative evaluation of community college learning resource programs, as measured by a questionnaire distributed to selected faculty and students at eighteen single-campus Virginia community colleges, and quantitative measures frequently used as …
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Evaluation from Both Sides Now: Towards an Epistemology of Evaluation Practice
<p>Throughout its history, the evaluation field has developed numerous theories. These theories, or evaluation theory as they are collectively known, are integral to the knowledge of the discipline and represent the field’s collective understanding of how evaluation can and should be practiced. …
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Program Evaluation on the Kids First Program
<p>This study is a program evaluation of the Kids First program, an eight-week psychoeducation program, on parents and children who have experienced a divorce and/or separation. This study was conducted to assess the usefulness of specific program interventions as it relates to parental insight, …
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The ContexTable: Building and Testing an Intelligent, Context-Aware Kitchen Table
<p>The purpose of this thesis was to design and evaluate The ContexTable, a context-aware system built into a kitchen table. After establishing the current status of the field of context-aware systems and the hurdles and problems being faced, a functioning prototype system was designed and built. …
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Expanding the Network Evaluation Toolkit: Combining Social Network Analysis & Qualitative Comparative Analysis
… I addressed these challenges by pairing SNA with qualitative comparative analysis (QCA), a configurational comparative method. Using QCA, researchers can tease out which conditions are necessary or sufficient to produce an outcome. I analyzed a collective action network of community-based resource …
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Making the Most of Program Evaluation Data: Understanding Human Services Professionals’ Well-Being Through Qualitative Secondary Analysis
<p>Qualitative secondary analysis (QSA) allows researchers to explore new research questions and ensure that participants’ voices are heard to the greatest extent possible, without the burdens of additional data collection. However, this approach is rarely used outside of the health sciences, and …
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How Does Video Analysis Impact Teacher Reflection-for-Action?
… from being meaningful and long lasting. The qualitative analysis of teacher responses to the exit survey, interview findings, and comparison of the baseline and intervention methods suggests that the video-enhanced reflection process had a positive impact on teacher reflective abilities …
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"""Some of these kids are gonna be my nurses, some of these kids are gonna be my doctors, but they can't be if they're hungry"": a qualitative inquiry of a school-based weekend feeding program"
… explored, this study used twenty semi-structured qualitative interviews to explore school staff approaches to implementation. Staff members believed that both societal influences and aspects of family life may contribute to food insecurity. Identification strategies included both individual staff …