CDMTR has a broad base of experience conducting process and outcome-oriented evaluation. We are agile in each stage of the research and evaluation process, particularly in working with community organizations.
CDMTR has evaluation expertise that includes:
- Articulating goals, objectives, and hypotheses in light of existing knowledge and resources.
- Preparing logic models.
- Developing the overarching evaluation design.
- Identifying constructs and process and outcome performance measures.
- Adapting or designing customized measurement tools to fit the project while ensuring reliability and validity of such tools.
- Incorporating multiple methods and multiple levels of analysis when appropriate.
- Designing sampling strategy.
- Collecting data rigorously through surveys, focus groups, and interviews to ensure credibility of findings.
- Obtaining, adapting, and managing large, complex databases to address research, quality improvement, and evaluation objectives.
- Conducting appropriate quantitative and qualitative data analysis and drawing conclusions.
- Aggregating, warehousing, and analyzing data from numerous entities for ongoing health surveillance, benchmarking, and quality improvement.
- Presenting results to community, professional, and scientific audiences.
- Disseminating findings in ways that can be accessed and understood by a variety of stakeholders.
- Using evaluation results to recommend program improvements.
Community Engagement and Collective Impact
The Community Engagement and Collective Impact project explores the practices and ideas that make community engagement work “authentic.” To better understand best principles and practices of community engagement that Michigan organizations can use to advance health equity, we conducted an environmental scan of community engagement efforts across the country.
Click Here to View the Community Engagement and Collective Impact Report
Check back for more updates and findings as this work continues in 2022!
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