Event Date: 2026-03-13 Brown School Evaluation Center and the Brown School Professional Development Deadline: 2026-02-27
The Advanced Learning Certificate in Data Visualization & Communication leverages tools like Excel and PowerPoint that are already on your computer to build your skills at visualizing data and communicating it to various audiences.
Event Date: 2026-03-16 The Evaluators' Institute Deadline: 2026-03-12
It is now commonplace to use these tools in evaluation practice. They are often used to help design effective programs, and other times to explain how a program is understood to contribute to its intended or observed outcomes.
There is a growing demand from public and private policymakers and funders to apply big data science and machine learning for evaluation.
Event Date: 2026-03-18 The Evaluators' Institute Deadline: 2026-03-16
The purpose of this course is to sensitize evaluators to the opportunities in their work for designing and implementing mixed methods, and to be more intentional in the ways that they design and implement their studies to integrate qualitative and quantitative approaches.
This course will provide new and cutting-edge information about best practices for designing and conducting surveys.Students will gain an understanding of the multiple sources of survey error and how to identify and fix commonly occurring survey issues.