Evaluation and Survey Design, Logic Models, Market Research, and Policy Analysis and Tools
Dr. Lori Lewis has many projects that fall into these types of work—evaluation and survey design, logic models, market research, and policy analyses and tools.
Analytical Evaluation Consultants’ client focus enables our customers to make informed program and policy decisions. Our team manages and conducts studies that incorporate evaluation and survey design, logic models, market research, and policy analyses and tools. Methods, work type and/or issues addressed include the following :
- Always meet or exceed the Code of Ethics from AAPOR (American Association of Public Opinion Research)
- Always meet or exceed the Guiding Principles from AEA (American Evaluation Association)
- Evaluation design includes the design of variables to be used and how they will be obtained or created as part of econometric evaluations, often with cross-sectional time-series types of analyses, as well as simple pre-post
- Survey design meeting principles for survey questions, efficiency and checks for skip patterns versus separate surveys/populations
- Using, calculating eligible population and response rates with definitions and methods from AAPOR.
- Work with Large Datasets
- Designing for and conducting in-depth interviews with various types of mid- and high-level market actors and specific types of groups
- Focus group guide
- Market change evaluation and assessments
- Developing overall and detailed program/intervention logic models
- Teaching the development of logic models
- Developing innovative policy analysis tools
- An Optimization Matrix to use for policy decision making with trade-offs of various objects where some make more sense to be assessed in cost (dollars) and those that are not monetary and incident rates are more relative to the policy decision
- A Gap Analysis to assess additional research, research data that is needed to assess and/or evaluate an intervention
- Developing business analysis tools for use in impact/outcome evaluation
Many of the projects in these categories also include work in the econometric and impact methods, forecasting and modeling. Please see that web page for a description of the types of methods or analysis undertaken.
Please see Our Team page for a more detailed description of Dr. Lewis’ experience over the last 30 years.
Analytical Evaluation Consultants’ clientele include multi-state, federal, and local agencies and utilities. Please refer to our client page for a list of our clients.
