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  • The Month in Quality Improvement

    The Month in Quality Improvement

    by

    Jon Scaccia

    I’ve recently gotten involved in the ECHO project, which helps to build COVID-19 and improvement capacity in nursing homes across the United States. This recent Axios article shows that this… Read More

    December 10, 2020
  • The Last Month in Evaluation (with some thoughts on AEA)

    The Last Month in Evaluation (with some thoughts on AEA)

    by

    Jon Scaccia

    It’s been a minute since we took a look at the evaluation literature. There’s a lot of stuff that gets published with no way to comb through it all. Click… Read More

    November 30, 2020
  • The Last Month in Community Psychology

    The Last Month in Community Psychology

    by

    Jon Scaccia

    It’s a been a long 30 days. For those of us involved in community-based projects and social justice initiatives, it can be exhausting to just stay on top of the… Read More

    November 16, 2020
  • A Ghost of Research Past: Developing a measure for R=MC2

    A Ghost of Research Past: Developing a measure for R=MC2

    by

    Jon Scaccia

    A few years ago, I was involved in a project to develop a readiness measure based in the R=MC2 framework. I developed this model back in grad school, and continued… Read More

    November 12, 2020
  • Reading (and understanding) Scientific Articles

    by

    Jon Scaccia

    So you’ve started using PubTrawlr and you’re ready to dive deeper. You follow some links to the primary source, open then up….and it’s gobbledygook. Take a deep breath. This a… Read More

    November 3, 2020
  • Will QCA ever happen? The Promises of the Dark Carnival.

    Will QCA ever happen?  The Promises of the Dark Carnival.

    by

    Jon Scaccia

    In Ray Bradbury’s Something Wicked This Way Comes, a mysterious carnival comes to town and promises to grant the secret desires of the residents…at a price. Researchers have these desires,… Read More

    October 28, 2020
  • Ending the 17-year gap–The Role of PubTrawlr

    Ending the 17-year gap–The Role of PubTrawlr

    by

    Jon Scaccia

    17 years. Research into the medical and social sciences indicates that it can take up to 17 years before a scientific finding makes its way into regular practice[1],[2],[3],[4],[5] This fact… Read More

    October 26, 2020
  • Evaluation in Health Services Settings: Reader’s Digest Version

    Evaluation in Health Services Settings: Reader’s Digest Version

    by

    Jon Scaccia

    Many years ago when the world was young, Drs. Victoria Scott and Kassy Alia-Ray and I wrote a book chapter on how to approach evaluation in community health improvement. That… Read More

    October 16, 2020
  • Shhh! It’s a secret.

    Shhh! It’s a secret.

    by

    Jon Scaccia

    Have you stumbled across this very short blog post? Well, lucky you! PubTrawlr is now live and in beta testing! Over the next few weeks, we’ll be trying out various… Read More

    October 12, 2020
  • 101 Days of Community Psychology

    by

    Jon Scaccia

    I’m a community psychologist by training/degree, though like most quasi-academics, my portfolio and interests aren’t constrained to one field. This is the reality for community psychology. It is extremely broad… Read More

    October 12, 2020
  • Wouldn’t mama be proud? A sentiment analysis of Elliott Smith lyrics

    Wouldn’t mama be proud?  A sentiment analysis of Elliott Smith lyrics

    by

    Jon Scaccia

    I’ve been an Elliott Smith kick this past month. Although I was one of the lucky ones to see him live (back in 1998 at the now-defunct Trocadero in Philly),… Read More

    October 8, 2020
  • Making Sense of Data in Practical and Collaborative Settings

    Making Sense of Data in Practical and Collaborative Settings

    by

    Jon Scaccia

    When working in community-based settings, there is often a reluctance to engage in evaluation. I generally try to emphasize three main points at the beginning of collaborations. Data is everywhere…. Read More

    October 7, 2020
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