Managing Complex Multi Case Study Evaluations

Author : Heather L. Kane,Laurie W. Hinnant,Amy E. Roussel,Janice P. Tzeng,,Mary Council
Publisher : RTI Press
Page : 14 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2014-12-16
Category : Health & Fitness
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Managing complex multi-case study evaluations by Heather L. Kane,Laurie W. Hinnant,Amy E. Roussel,Janice P. Tzeng,,Mary Council Pdf

Between 2010 and 2012, as part of the Communities Putting Prevention to Work (CPPW) initiative, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) funded 50 states, six US territories, and 50 communities to support high-impact, evidence-based, population-wide strategies to create healthy environments for their residents. CPPW is a locally driven initiative with a primary focus on prevention and control of tobacco use and obesity. As part of this initiative, CDC also funded an implementation evaluation to describe and understand how evidence-based, community-level improvements are applied in the field and contribute to improvements in health. We conducted this evaluation using multi-case study methods that best captured the local context and implementation processes. Large, cross-case evaluations present challenges that single or small multi-case evaluations do not. These challenges include creating flexible, but standard data collection instruments; ensuring the feasibility and utility of instruments and processes through pilot testing; promoting consistent data collection and quality; and managing a large qualitative data set and coding team. In this report, we document some strategies regarding data collection, management, and analysis that should be beneficial to other organizations supporting public health initiatives and to investigators in designing the strongest possible evaluations using large multi-case design.

Author : Heather L. Kane,Laurie W. Hinnant,Amy E. Roussel,Janice P. Tzeng,Mary Council
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 9 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:1117904725

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Managing Complex Multi-case Study Evaluations by Heather L. Kane,Laurie W. Hinnant,Amy E. Roussel,Janice P. Tzeng,Mary Council Pdf

Between 2010 and 2012, as part of the Communities Putting Prevention to Work (CPPW) initiative, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) funded 50 states, six US territories, and 50 communities to support high-impact, evidence-based, population-wide strategies to create healthy environments for their residents. CPPW is a locally driven initiative with a primary focus on prevention and control of tobacco use and obesity. As part of this initiative, CDC also funded an implementation evaluation to describe and understand how evidence-based, community-level improvements are applied in the field and contribute to improvements in health. We conducted this evaluation using multi-case study methods that best captured the local context and implementation processes. Large, cross-case evaluations present challenges that single or small multi-case evaluations do not. These challenges include creating flexible, but standard data collection instruments; ensuring the feasibility and utility of instruments and processes through pilot testing; promoting consistent data collection and quality; and managing a large qualitative data set and coding team. In this report, we document some strategies regarding data collection, management, and analysis that should be beneficial to other organizations supporting public health initiatives and to investigators in designing the strongest possible evaluations using large multi-case design.

Author : Ali A. Minai,Dan Braha,Yaneer Bar-Yam
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 657 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2010-06-02
Category : Science
ISBN : 9783540850816

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Unifying Themes in Complex Systems by Ali A. Minai,Dan Braha,Yaneer Bar-Yam Pdf

In recent years, scientists have applied the principles of complex systems science to increasingly diverse fields. The results have been nothing short of remarkable: their novel approaches have provided answers to long-standing questions in biology, ecology, physics, engineering, computer science, economics, psychology and sociology. "Unifying Themes in Complex Systems" is a well established series of carefully edited conference proceedings that serve the purpose of documenting and archiving the progress of cross-fertilization in this field. About NECSI: For over 10 years, The New England Complex Systems Institute (NECSI) has been instrumental in the development of complex systems science and its applications. NECSI conducts research, education, knowledge dissemination, and community development around the world for the promotion of the study of complex systems and its application for the betterment of society. NECSI hosts the International Conference on Complex Systems and publishes the NECSI Book Series in conjunction with Springer Publishers.

Author : Daphne Halkias,Michael Neubert,Paul W. Thurman,Nicholas Harkiolakis
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 103 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2022-02-27
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781000585674

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The Multiple Case Study Design by Daphne Halkias,Michael Neubert,Paul W. Thurman,Nicholas Harkiolakis Pdf

Most organizations today operate in volatile economic and social environments and qualitative research plays an essential role in investigating leadership and management problems. This unique volume offers novice and experienced researchers a brief, student-centric research methods text specifically devoted to the multiple case study design. The multiple case study design is a valuable qualitative research tool in studying the links between the personal, social, behavioral, psychological, organizational, cultural, and environmental factors that guide organizational and leadership development. Case study research is essential for the in-depth study of participants' perspectives on the phenomenon within its natural context. Rigorously designed management and leadership case studies in the extant literature have a central focus on individual managers' and leaders' stories and their perceptions of the broader forces operating within and outside their organizations. This is a comprehensive methodology book exploring the multiple case study design with step-by-step and easily accessible guidelines on the topic, making it especially valuable to researchers, academics, and students in the areas of business, management, and leadership.

Author : Robert E. Stake
Publisher : Guilford Press
Page : 496 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2013-04-29
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781462512409

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Multiple Case Study Analysis by Robert E. Stake Pdf

Examining situational complexity is a vital part of social and behavioral science research. This engaging text provides an effective process for studying multiple cases--such as sets of teachers, staff development sessions, or clinics operating in different locations--within one complex program. The process also can be used to investigate broadly occurring phenomena without programmatic links, such as leadership or sibling rivalry. Readers learn to design, analyze, and report studies that balance common issues across the group of cases with the unique features and context of each case. Three actual case reports from a transnational early childhood program illustrate the author's approach, and helpful reproducible worksheets facilitate multicase recording and analysis.

Author : Alexia Herwig,Marta Simoncini
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2016-12-01
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781317273691

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Law and the Management of Disasters by Alexia Herwig,Marta Simoncini Pdf

Disasters raise serious challenges for contemporary legal orders: they demand significant management, but usually amidst massive disruption to the normal functioning of state authority and society. When dealing with disasters, law has traditionally focused on contingency planning and recovery. More recently, however, ‘resilience’ has emerged as a key concept in effective disaster management policies and strategies, aiming at minimising the impact of events, so that the normal functioning of society and the state can be preserved. This book analyses the contribution of law to resilience building by looking at law’s role in the different phases of the disaster regulatory process: risk assessment, risk management, emergency intervention, and recovery. More specifically, it addresses how law can effectively contribute to resilience-oriented distaster management policies, and what legal instruments can support effective resilience-building.

Author : Alejandro Salcedo Garcia,Keith Morrison,Ah Chung Tsoi,Jinming He
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2014-06-05
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781317803737

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Managing Complex Change in School by Alejandro Salcedo Garcia,Keith Morrison,Ah Chung Tsoi,Jinming He Pdf

Leading and managing change in schools is a complex topic. In this timely book the authors take the reader through a journey of how to lead and manage multidimensional change in order to create engaged learners, teachers, leaders and managers. They provide a readable and straightforward account of a major, high-profile innovation in one school and draw from it key lessons for leaders and managers of change in schools. Managing Complex Change in School synthesizes a wealth of literature and research on managing change, and shows how the emerging field of complexity theory can inform the effective management of multidimensional change. Arising from an in-depth, mixed methods evaluation of the key school, this book is practice-focused and is an invaluable companion for practitioners handling positive change in schools.

Author : Malchus B. Baker
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 80 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Forest hydrology
ISBN : UIUC:30112046854722

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Multiple Resource Evaluations on the Beaver Creek Watershed by Malchus B. Baker Pdf

Author : Bruce Mitchell
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 393 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Environmental management
ISBN : 9780190885816

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Resource and Environmental Management by Bruce Mitchell Pdf

In order to optimally manage the environment and natural resources, it is vitally important to recognize that there is much more to consider than just the environment itself and the natural resources it provides. A key consideration is also the interrelationship between natural ecosystems and human involvement and behavior. This interaction is where the field of environmental resource management comes into play: the complex ecological and sociological systems of the natural world intertwined. The purpose of this book is to consider such matters, and to help readers develop their own capacities as environmental managers and stewards. Bruce Mitchell's textbook Resource and Environmental Management served as the gold standard for many environmental science courses when the first edition published in 1997. Now, twenty years later, an updated third edition allows for the inclusion of recent developments. The book covers the basic theories and concepts of environmental resource management, and guides students to be able to apply those concepts to practical situations. By covering basic theories and concepts, and by using case studies to show how these have been applied, Bruce Mitchell's new edition seeks to ensure that students have competence in both aspects. The text enhances the reader's capacity to conduct practice and research in resource and environmental management.

Author : Zhen Chen,Heng Li
Publisher : Frontiers Media SA
Page : 156 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2023-02-17
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9782832515020

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Doctoral Research in Construction Management by Zhen Chen,Heng Li Pdf

Author : Muhammet Gul,Melih Yucesan,Melike Erdogan
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 309 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2022-12-16
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9781000804447

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Multi-Criteria Decision Analysis by Muhammet Gul,Melih Yucesan,Melike Erdogan Pdf

Multi-Criteria Decision-Making (MCDM) includes methods and tools for modeling and solving complex problems. MCDM has become popular in the production and service sectors to improve the quality of service, reduce costs, and make people more prosperous. This book illustrates applications through case studies focused on disaster management. With a presentation of both Multi-Attribute Decision-Making (MADM) and Multi-Objective Decision-Making (MODM) models, this is the first book to merge these methods and tools with disaster management. This book raises awareness for society and decision-makers on how to measure readiness and what necessary preventive measures need to be taken. It offers models and case studies that can be easily adapted to solve complex problems and find solutions in other fields. Multi-Criteria Decision Analysis: Case Studies in Disaster Management will offer new insights to researchers working in the areas of industrial engineering, systems engineering, healthcare systems, operations research, mathematics, business, computer science, and disaster management, and, hopefully, the book will also stimulate further work in MCDM.

Author : Robert K. Yin
Publisher : SAGE Publications, Incorporated
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 1993-05-25
Category : Social Science
ISBN : UCSD:31822015210750

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Applications of Case Study Research by Robert K. Yin Pdf

This volume provides extensive applications of actual case-study research, as well as discussions of how case-study research can be applied to broad areas of inquiry. Each of the applications is designed to help readers identify solutions to problems encountered when doing case study research. The book is organized in three parts. Part I shows how to integrate theoretical concerns into exploratory case studies, descriptive case studies or causal case studies, and shows how theory can shape the case-selection process. Part II provides examples from education and management information systems, covering important steps in case study research, such as how to select the units of analysis, how to define the data collections needs and how to establish rival hypotheses. Finally, Part III examines the use of case studies as an evaluative tool, including distinctions among different qualitative research strategies and evaluating highly complex interventions.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 538 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 1983
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UCLA:31158012200829

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The GAO Review by Anonim Pdf

Author : Jing Li,Weisheng Lu,Yi Peng,Hongping Yuan,Daikun Wang
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 1833 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2023-08-07
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9789819936267

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Proceedings of the 27th International Symposium on Advancement of Construction Management and Real Estate by Jing Li,Weisheng Lu,Yi Peng,Hongping Yuan,Daikun Wang Pdf

This book presents the proceedings of CRIOCM 2022 (27th International Conference on Advancement of Construction Management and Real Estate), sharing the latest developments in real estate and construction management around the globe. The conference was organized by the Chinese Research Institute of Construction Management (CRIOCM) working in close collaboration with The Chinese University of Hong Kong. Written by international academics and professionals, the book discusses the latest achievements, research findings, and advances in frontier disciplines in the field of construction management and real estate. Covering a wide range of topics, including spatial planning and land use innovation, integration and application of BIM and GIS, low-carbon built environment, post-pandemic resilient cities development, housing and social governance, real estate market and urban policy, real estate finance and economics, intelligent construction and smart city, built environment for healthy living, and construction management in the post-COVID-19 era, the discussions provide valuable insights into the implementation of advanced construction project management and real estate market in China and abroad. The book offers an outstanding resource for academics and professionals

Author : Yacov Y. Haimes
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 720 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2015-07-15
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9781119018018

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Risk Modeling, Assessment, and Management by Yacov Y. Haimes Pdf

Presents systems-based theory, methodology, and applications in risk modeling, assessment, and management This book examines risk analysis, focusing on quantifying risk and constructing probabilities for real-world decision-making, including engineering, design, technology, institutions, organizations, and policy. The author presents fundamental concepts (hierarchical holographic modeling; state space; decision analysis; multi-objective trade-off analysis) as well as advanced material (extreme events and the partitioned multi-objective risk method; multi-objective decision trees; multi-objective risk impact analysis method; guiding principles in risk analysis); avoids higher mathematics whenever possible; and reinforces the material with examples and case studies. The book will be used in systems engineering, enterprise risk management, engineering management, industrial engineering, civil engineering, and operations research. The fourth edition of Risk Modeling, Assessment, and Management features: Expanded chapters on systems-based guiding principles for risk modeling, planning, assessment, management, and communication; modeling interdependent and interconnected complex systems of systems with phantom system models; and hierarchical holographic modeling An expanded appendix including a Bayesian analysis for the prediction of chemical carcinogenicity, and the Farmer’s Dilemma formulated and solved using a deterministic linear model Updated case studies including a new case study on sequential Pareto-optimal decisions for emergent complex systems of systems A new companion website with over 200 solved exercises that feature risk analysis theories, methodologies, and application Risk Modeling, Assessment, and Management, Fourth Edition, is written for both undergraduate and graduate students in systems engineering and systems management courses. The text also serves as a resource for academic, industry, and government professionals in the fields of homeland and cyber security, healthcare, physical infrastructure systems, engineering, business, and more.