Assignment: Indicator Construction

Now that you have thought through a logical model or framework for your Final Project, it is time to develop preliminary input, output, and outcome indicators. For this Assignment, use the guidelines from the Urban Institute resource and consult relevant Optional Resources from this week. a 2- to 3-page paper which describes your input, output, … Read more

Discussion: Measurement and Data Collection

Data collection requires evaluators to consider a wide and diverse variety of data sources. These include both primary and secondary data sources. Data collection can significantly impact your evaluation project. Evaluators sometimes overlook problems where secondary data is involved and overlook the fact that data for comparison purposes can affect validity. The types of data … Read more

Strategic Marketing Assignment:

   Strategic Marketing Assignment: Select a success or a failure case of a company and analyze its strategic marketing elements. In your case you need to analyze: -Macro environmental forces that affected the company  -Micro environmental forces -The new consumer trends -The company’s differentiation and positioning strategy -The industry product life cycle  – All relevant … Read more

Discussion: Designs: Experimental Designs, Quasi Experiments, and Non-Experimental Designs

PLEASE READ THE ASSIGNMENT!!!!!  Validity issues of causal claims are always at the forefront of evaluation design. It is critical for the evaluator to understand issues of internal, external, measurement, and statistical validity. Though the classical experiment remains the standard for evaluating statistical and causal rigor, many evaluations continue to use quasi experiments and non-experimental … Read more