Resources to support your data justice work
Keys to DEI Measurement Success
Keys to DEI Measurement Success
Great achievements are not born from a single vision but from the combination of many distinctive viewpoints. Diversity challenges assumptions, opens minds, and unlocks our potential to solve any problems we may face. - Source Unknown
Data System Readiness Tool
Data System Readiness Tool
This tool was designed to assess a collective’s readiness to implement a shared measurement system to achieve its measurement goals.
Systems Thinking & Measuring Complex Change
Resources for Systems Thinking & Measuring Complex Change
In an effort to facilitate direct access to resources that can help anyone, data2insight gathers content and tools from diverse sources. Browse this powerful collection of links to books, documents, and websites.
Data Capture, Curation, Analysis & Visualization
Resources for Data Capture, Curation, Analysis & Visualization
In an effort to facilitate direct access to resources that can help anyone, data2insight gathers content and tools from diverse sources. Browse this powerful collection of links to books, documents, and websites.
Evidence Based Leadership & Practical Performance Measurement
Resources for Evidence Based Leadership & Practical Performance Measurement
In an effort to facilitate direct access to resources that can help anyone, data2insight gathers content and tools from diverse sources. Browse this powerful collection of links to books, blogs, documents, and white papers.
STEM Education and Workforce Development Data Collection and Analysis Tools
STEM Education and Workforce Development Data Collection and Analysis Tools
The American Evaluation Association’s STEM Topical Interest Group is building a repository of STEM evaluation resources. The repository aims to consolidate new knowledge from STEM evaluation experts in AEA, while also identifying and linking to existing repositories to avoid duplication of effort.
Shining a Light on LGBTQ+ Professionals in STEM
Shining a Light on LGBTQ+ Professionals in STEM
This work has highlighted an issue that is personal for Veronica Smith: LGBTQ+ (lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, intersex, and asexual) folks are nearly invisible in the efforts to diversify STEM education and the STEM workforce in the United States.
Evaluators as True Partners in Dismantling White Supremacy and Creating a More Equitable and Just Society
Evaluators as True Partners in Dismantling White Supremacy and Creating a More Equitable and Just Society
Cynthia Roberts, Veronica Smith and Martina Todaro share a few ideas for how evaluators can be equitable and culturally responsive in their approaches, and one example of how these practices are used in our work.
Focusing Sessions: Stakeholder Engagement and Evaluation Design Method
Focusing Sessions: Stakeholder Engagement and Evaluation Design Method
Data2insight founder Veronica Smith and strategic partner Antonella Guidoccio presented at the 2018 European Evaluation Society conference in Thessaloniki, Greece. We provide here information and resources to download from their round table sessions.
Leveraging Mentorships, Sponsorships, and Internships for STEM Career Success
Leveraging Mentorships, Sponsorships, and Internships for STEM Career Success
This workshop for the 2018 UW Women in Science and Engineering (WiSE) conference was designed to engage people in high school, college and early STEM careers. This discussion covers how to achieve STEM career goals faster and easier by 1) understanding best mentoring, internship, and sponsor practices and 2) strategically connecting and building mutually beneficial relationships with excellent professionals along the way.
Dashboarding Field Guide Literature Review Highlights & Stakeholder Engagement and Evaluation Design Tool
Dashboarding Field Guide Literature Review Highlights & Stakeholder Engagement and Evaluation Design Tool
For those interested in Veronica’s work on dashboarding and focusing sessions, her 2016 American Evaluation Association conference presentations and handouts are available here for download.
Engaging Teachers in STEM Curriculum and Assessment Development
Engaging Teachers in STEM Curriculum and Assessment Development
Data2insight worked with Washington Global Health Alliance (WGHA), a consortium of research universities and non-profit organizations, on the evaluation of an interdisciplinary curriculum program called Ambassadors. WGHA Ambassadors aims to give high school students a well-rounded perspective of global health and how global health challenges need to be met by creative new ideas.