Building Solutions to Poverty: Methods and Metrics for Identifying Success

October 19, 2011 - October 21, 2011

The overall goal is to bring together innovative experts in methodology, poverty research, and policy to strengthen the design, implementation, and evaluation of poverty interventions with a goal towards identifying potential solutions. Among the principal issues in understanding how interventions and programs actually benefit intended persons in diverse communities is the strength of the science and methods used to design and assess these interventions. Given the complexity of poverty itself, this is a challenging but crucially important task, and one that warrants the engagement of multiple paradigms, multiple disciplines, and multiple perspectives on statistical methods, research design, measurement, and evaluation.

Featured speakers include:

  • Daniele Bondonio, Ph.D., Director of CERVAP-Research Center for Evaluation Studies in the Public Sector and Associate Professor, Universita’ del Piemonte Orientale, Italy
  • Claudia J. Coulton, Ph.D., Co-Director of the Center on Urban Poverty and Community Development at Case Western Reserve University
  • Andrew Grant-Thomas, Ph.D., Deputy Director of the Kirwan Institute for the Study of Race and Ethnicity, OSU
  • Donna M. Mertens, Ph.D., Professor of Educational Foundations and Research, Gallaudet University; Editor of The Journal of Mixed Methods Research
  • James P. Ziliak, Ph.D., Director of the University of Kentucky Center for Poverty Research

 

 

Where:
Columbus , OH
More details:
http://poverty.osu.edu/events/ipsc-methodology-conference/