[Sabeswest] Workshop: Putting a Face On Your Data: Analyzing and Using Primary Data

[Charlie Herbert]

Putting a Face On Your Data: Analyzing and Using Primary Data

This five hour training, designed primarily for ABE Community Planning 
Coordinators, community planning consultants, and ABE Community 
Partnership members, focuses on the analysis of primary data. 
Participants will review key terms and data collection methods, apply 
techniques for analyzing quantitative and qualitative data, develop 
findings, and determine implications based on findings. Participants 
will leave ready to carry out primary data analysis and evaluation in 
the community.
Ipek Kursat is Interim Director for The Literacy Project in Greenfield, 
MA, and Principal Consultant for KSI Consulting Group, where she has 
been leading data-driven strategy development and implementation, change 
and process improvement initiatives for over 15 years.

Learning Objectives:

* define key terms used in data collection and analysis

* identify which of the primary data collection methods in the Community 
Planning Guidelines are appropriate for collecting quantitative data, 
which are appropriate for collecting qualitative data, and when each 
data collection method should be used.

* develop findings by applying appropriate techniques for analyzing 
quantitative and qualitative data

* identify changes in the community by comparing current findings with 
previous findings

* develop implications for community planning responsive to identified 
changes

DATE: November 1, 2006
TIME: 9:30-3:30
Location: HCC G221

Register via calendar.sabes.org, by contacting amorris at hcc.mass.edu or 
cherbert at hcc.mass.edu.  If you have any questions ask Charlie 552-2019.

Charlie Herbert
SABES
Holyoke, MA

P.S.  It will be held four other times in November in other regions of 
the state.  Times, dates and locations can be found at calendar.sabes.org