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MoHealthWINs

Apr

8

2013

Missouri’s community colleges and Linn State Technical College have been awarded a $20 million grant to train an estimated 4,600 workers in the health services/health sciences industry. The grant, awarded today by the U.S. Department of Labor TAATCCT program, is a transformative opportunity for Missouri and will bring the state’s public two-year institutions together to ...

Projects

Mar

15

2013

Pima Community College Cosgrove & Associates is currently assisting Pima Community College in the development of a set of strategic directions to help the college more fully develop the social and economic fabric of its community. To achieve this, we are working to increase the number of area residents who access the college’s courses, programs, ...

The Value of Logic Models In Utilization-Focused Evaluation: Answering the Question “So What?”

Oct

25

2012

When program designers and implementers contact a program evaluator, they usually begin with a fairly straight-forward request—“We need to evaluate our program to determine if it worked.” On the surface the request seems simple enough, but it becomes complicated as soon as the program evaluator starts asking questions: “What program outputs do you expect?” “What ...

Questions and People Drive Decisions & Continuous Improvement

Aug

13

2012

By J. Cosgrove In her excellent article Data Don’t Drive, Alicia Dowd reminds us that data alone won’t lead to continuous improvement or in fact any improvement at all. I remember sitting in a summer training session at the University of Michigan Assessment Institute and listening to Richard Alford discuss the Craft of Inquiry. It ...