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• Facilitated the data collection process for the Health Information Professions (HIP) Career Pathways Initiative, a federally funded workforce development and education program. • Conducted data analysis for Advisory Board meetings presentations and produced individual reports on areas of interest identified by HIP’s leadership team. • Oversaw the quality control process for all the federal grant data. Wrote the Evaluation section of the narrative reports. • Facilitated the completion of course observations and course evaluations. • Oversaw the 3 month, 6 month and 1 year follow-up survey processes with HIP students.• Supervised Research Assistant (part-time staff member) and student worker in the completion of various data entry tasks and other duties.

• Entered eligibility data and scanned completed intake and exit surveys into Remark. Conducted quality assurance reviews of all HIP students' case files and PRS data to ensure everything was entered according to the grantor’s guidelines. • Created SPSS syntax for the assembly and merging of various datasets. • Conducted course evaluations at 1199c and Temple. Observed Tiers 1 and 2 courses and Academic Enrichment workshops. Drafted instructor feedback reports based on field notes and survey results. • Assisted with data analysis, contributed to the interpretation of research findings and provided feedback on evaluation reports.

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States

• Through observation of three training programs {Assessing for Safety and In-Home Protective Services Training for Philadelphia Department of Human Services providers and the Child Welfare Practice Series (CWPS)] Evaluated trainers on ability to follow a prescribed curriculum, cover material included on pre-post knowledge tests and adequately answer participants’ questions in order to help ensure program fidelity.• Assisted in data preparation by scanning completed pre-post knowledge tests and satisfaction surveys using Remark, creating SPSS syntax for raw data files and assembling the full datasets.• Assisted in various aspects of data analysis and prepared materials for trainer feedback reports. • Drafted Final Evaluation Report for 2nd Year of the Child Welfare Practice Series.

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States

• Provided guidance regarding the methodological design of the research project.• Assisted in designing the survey including guidance on the wording of specific questions, the order of the items and the selection of appropriate scales. • Assembled the collected datasets including cleaning the data and recoding items.• Analyzed the resulting data including running descriptive statistics for the samples and producing tables that illustrate key project findings.

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States

• Provided training to SSDL clients (Temple faculty, students and staff as well as external researchers) on the use of various software packages, approaches to statistical analysis, the refinement of research designs and other issues regarding quantitative and qualitative methodologies. • Located a wide range of different types of data based on clients’ needs, including requested variables, specific research topics etc. and assembled datasets from ASCII and raw formats into SPSS, STATA, SAS and GIS shapefiles. • Provided extensive assistance on a long-term research project on the community hiring practices of Temple University that involved the mapping of employee residences and the statistical analysis of Human Resources data.

Assisted in the selection of study neighborhoods based on demographic changes (1970 to 2006) and housing values by mapping census data using GIS.Assembled a list of community-based organizations in each neighborhood and assisted in the selection of community-based organizations to be contacted via mailed letters and phone calls.Conducted ethnographic fieldwork, participant observations of community events and interviews with the leadership of community-based organizations and neighborhood resident