Sarah Mason
Biographic Data
| ID | 3772635 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Sarah Mason |
| GIVEN NAMES | Sarah |
| FAMILY NAME | Mason |
| SIGNATURE | MASON S |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Mississippi |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-3235-8432 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 25 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 59 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 25 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1994 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Organizing associational power
In November 2022, 48,000 workers across the University of California initiated the largest strike in the history of United States higher education. But although the strike ended 6 weeks later with the ratification of a new contract, support for this new contract diverged sharply across campuses: what accounts for these varying assessments of the strike? Drawing on ethnographic participation, documents, and interviews with strikers, organizers, an…
Beyond Access
In oral history, gatekeepers are individuals who facilitate access to interviewees and thus aid in the process of oral history narrator recruitment. This focus on access, however, positions the gatekeeper as a mere recruiter and fails to consider the wider significance of relying on such an individual, as well as how their presence influences and shapes the historical narratives produced. In this article, I therefore seek to proffer a more robust…
Evaluation of the Mississippi Title X Family Planning Program in Meeting Reproductive and Sexual Health Needs
Results from this study can inform strategies to improve service utilization by potential patients and the quality of care for Title X funded networked clinics in Mississippi. Improving the delivery of care and service utilization can ultimately better meet the reproductive and sexual health needs of patients served through the Title X funded system
A Mixed-Methods Study of How a Critical Race Theory-Informed Undergraduate Research Experience Program Provides Equitable Support for Aspiring Graduate Students
Numerous studies document the benefits of participating in undergraduate research experiences (UREs), including greater odds of enrolling in graduate school. However, there is a lack of understanding about how UREs support student success. This study examines survey and interview data from a multi-year program evaluation of a National Institutes of Health-funded biomedical training program to consider whether and how participating in a URE foster…
Making the Learn Evaluation Assessment Portal
Evaluation is a practice with increasing global demand. However, an understanding of who wants to learn evaluation and their learning needs related to evaluator competencies is relatively unexplored. This article describes a research effort designed to address those needs using an evaluator competency self-assessment. Despite their validity challenges, self-assessments can yield valuable information for a variety of audiences. Respondents and the…
Community nostalgia and transgenerational trauma
Oral History in Evaluation
Evaluators utilize a variety of qualitative and quantitative methods to assess outcomes and make recommendations; however, we were unable to find any reference in the literature regarding the incorporation of oral histories for evaluation purposes. Based on our use of oral histories to evaluate a Critical Race Theory (CRT)-based undergraduate research and mentoring program, we learned how oral histories can be used effectively-and meaningfully-fo…
Parenting in the time of Covid-19
The closure of school buildings due to COVID-19 and the resulting rapid transition to online education dramatically altered the lives of educators, students and parents. While previous literature demonstrates the vital role of parents in effective online education (Hattie, 2020; Liu et al, 2010), pre-pandemic literature focuses on parents and students who have opted in to online education. As such, the outbreak of COVID-19 has presented new chall…
Disempowerment Evaluation and the Risks of Avoiding Stakeholder Feedback
Evaluation can bring positive, often cathartic effects for those who participate in evaluation activities. Inviting stakeholder feedback conveys respect, a commitment to improvement, and lets program participants know their perspectives are valued. The absence of evaluation, on the other hand, can cause harm to program recipients by conveying the message that their voices don’t matter—and their experiences matter even less. This is particularly t…
Just Give Me an Example! Exploring Strategies for Building Public Understanding of Evaluation
Evaluators often lament that the general public does not understand what we do. Yet, there is limited empirical research on what the general public does know—and think—about program evaluation. This article seeks to expand our understanding in this domain by capturing views about evaluation from a demographically representative sample of the U.S population. This article also explores different strategies for describing program evaluation to the g…
A Forum on Emerging Technologies
As part of ILR Review's new special series "Novel Technologies at Work," this article introduces a forum composed of five industry studies that examine the drivers and impact of recent and impending technological change. Each of the studies, condensed from longer reports published over the past two years, relies on interviews with sectoral actors and other primary data to determine the relevant technologies confronting workers and managers and th…
Adapting and Enduring
With the outbreak of COVID-19 in early 2020, school buildings across the globe closed, leading educators, students and families to transition rapidly to online education. It is clear that schools will in the future continue to employ online learning, even as students and educators return to school buildings. While the education community has over a number of years generated a range of practical tips and guidance about online education—especially …
Practice makes better? Testing a model for training program evaluators in situation awareness
Age, Gender and Language Teacher Identity
In Need of an Attitude Adjustment? The Role of Data Visualization in Attitude Change and Evaluation Influence
The connection between evaluation practice and its ultimate goal—social betterment—is indirect. With little or no direct control over social programs and policies, many evaluators rely on the actions of stakeholders to bridge the gap between evaluation practice and its purpose. Consequently, communicating with influence becomes key. The present empirical study tested the influence of evaluation findings on reader attitudes. It also extended curre…
So What Do You Do? Exploring Evaluator Descriptions of Their Work
To progress as a field, evaluators must be able to describe their work to nonevaluators, and to persuade an audience they have something unique and valuable to offer. Yet anecdotal reports suggest many evaluators have difficulty describing their work. Through 42 interviews with practicing evaluators, we aimed to better understand evaluators’ experiences discussing their work, examining how evaluators describe their work to nonevaluators and the p…
Smakkerup Huse
Excavations at the site of Smakkerup Huse on the island of Zealand, Denmark, have revealed Late Mesolithic Ertebølle deposits, dating between 5000 and 3900 B.C. Preservation was excellent and a variety of bone, antler, wood, and other plant remains were recovered in the waterlogged deposits, along with stone and ceramic artifacts. The remains document a diverse subsistence base utilizing both marine and terrestrial foods, an elaborate wood techno…
Smakkerup Huse
Denmark, Sjælland, late mesolithic settlement, littorina transgressions
Neolithic Studies Group meeting
A few thoughts on the 'two cultures' debate in archaeology
From Joman to Starr Carr
Neolithic Studies Group Autumn Meeting
Getting a Loan Whilst Receiving BenefitsA common question we’re asked here at Boutell is whether it’s possible to take out a loan whilst being on or receiving benefits and whilst there are many factors that our lending partners consider, the short answer is yes. Our loan application service is o
Palaeolithic-Mesolithic Day Meeting, British Museum, 17th March 1995
Acorn-eating and ethnographic analogies
Joy McCorriston's paper in the March 1994 ANTIQUITY, on acorn-eating and agricultural origins, used California ethnographies as analogues for the ancient Near East. This reply explores some issues of analogy and explanation that go beyond the important specifics of the matter
Preliminary investigation of the plant macro-remains from Dolní Věstonice II, and its implications for the role of plant foods in Palaeolithic and Mesolithic Europe
For the most part the Pleistocene, and even the earliest post-glacial, is a blank when it comes to evidence of humans eating plants. No wonder the old men's stories, of chaps who hunt great mammals and eat their meat, still dominate our unthinking visions of hunter-gathering in that period. Some real evidence, slight though it is, from a classic European Upper Palaeolithic site provides a more balanced view
Preliminary investigation of the plant macro-remains from Dolní Věstonice II, and its implications for the role of plant foods in Palaeolithic and Mesolithic Europe
For the most part the Pleistocene, and even the earliest post-glacial, is a blank when it comes to evidence of humans eating plants. No wonder the old men's stories, of chaps who hunt great mammals and eat their meat, still dominate our unthinking visions of hunter-gathering in that period. Some real evidence, slight though it is, from a classic European Upper Palaeolithic site provides a more balanced view
Acorn-eating and ethnographic analogies
Joy McCorriston's paper in the March 1994 ANTIQUITY, on acorn-eating and agricultural origins, used California ethnographies as analogues for the ancient Near East. This reply explores some issues of analogy and explanation that go beyond the important specifics of the matter
So What Do You Do? Exploring Evaluator Descriptions of Their Work
To progress as a field, evaluators must be able to describe their work to nonevaluators, and to persuade an audience they have something unique and valuable to offer. Yet anecdotal reports suggest many evaluators have difficulty describing their work. Through 42 interviews with practicing evaluators, we aimed to better understand evaluators’ experiences discussing their work, examining how evaluators describe their work to nonevaluators and the p…
Smakkerup Huse
Denmark, Sjælland, late mesolithic settlement, littorina transgressions
Community nostalgia and transgenerational trauma
Age, Gender and Language Teacher Identity
In Need of an Attitude Adjustment? The Role of Data Visualization in Attitude Change and Evaluation Influence
The connection between evaluation practice and its ultimate goal—social betterment—is indirect. With little or no direct control over social programs and policies, many evaluators rely on the actions of stakeholders to bridge the gap between evaluation practice and its purpose. Consequently, communicating with influence becomes key. The present empirical study tested the influence of evaluation findings on reader attitudes. It also extended curre…
Making the Learn Evaluation Assessment Portal
Evaluation is a practice with increasing global demand. However, an understanding of who wants to learn evaluation and their learning needs related to evaluator competencies is relatively unexplored. This article describes a research effort designed to address those needs using an evaluator competency self-assessment. Despite their validity challenges, self-assessments can yield valuable information for a variety of audiences. Respondents and the…
A Forum on Emerging Technologies
As part of ILR Review's new special series "Novel Technologies at Work," this article introduces a forum composed of five industry studies that examine the drivers and impact of recent and impending technological change. Each of the studies, condensed from longer reports published over the past two years, relies on interviews with sectoral actors and other primary data to determine the relevant technologies confronting workers and managers and th…
Preliminary investigation of the plant macro-remains from Dolní Věstonice II, and its implications for the role of plant foods in Palaeolithic and Mesolithic Europe
For the most part the Pleistocene, and even the earliest post-glacial, is a blank when it comes to evidence of humans eating plants. No wonder the old men's stories, of chaps who hunt great mammals and eat their meat, still dominate our unthinking visions of hunter-gathering in that period. Some real evidence, slight though it is, from a classic European Upper Palaeolithic site provides a more balanced view
Neolithic Studies Group Autumn Meeting
Getting a Loan Whilst Receiving BenefitsA common question we’re asked here at Boutell is whether it’s possible to take out a loan whilst being on or receiving benefits and whilst there are many factors that our lending partners consider, the short answer is yes. Our loan application service is o
Palaeolithic-Mesolithic Day Meeting, British Museum, 17th March 1995
Acorn-eating and ethnographic analogies
Joy McCorriston's paper in the March 1994 ANTIQUITY, on acorn-eating and agricultural origins, used California ethnographies as analogues for the ancient Near East. This reply explores some issues of analogy and explanation that go beyond the important specifics of the matter
From Joman to Starr Carr
Neolithic Studies Group meeting
A few thoughts on the 'two cultures' debate in archaeology
Smakkerup Huse
Excavations at the site of Smakkerup Huse on the island of Zealand, Denmark, have revealed Late Mesolithic Ertebølle deposits, dating between 5000 and 3900 B.C. Preservation was excellent and a variety of bone, antler, wood, and other plant remains were recovered in the waterlogged deposits, along with stone and ceramic artifacts. The remains document a diverse subsistence base utilizing both marine and terrestrial foods, an elaborate wood techno…
Smakkerup Huse
Denmark, Sjælland, late mesolithic settlement, littorina transgressions
In Need of an Attitude Adjustment? The Role of Data Visualization in Attitude Change and Evaluation Influence
The connection between evaluation practice and its ultimate goal—social betterment—is indirect. With little or no direct control over social programs and policies, many evaluators rely on the actions of stakeholders to bridge the gap between evaluation practice and its purpose. Consequently, communicating with influence becomes key. The present empirical study tested the influence of evaluation findings on reader attitudes. It also extended curre…
So What Do You Do? Exploring Evaluator Descriptions of Their Work
To progress as a field, evaluators must be able to describe their work to nonevaluators, and to persuade an audience they have something unique and valuable to offer. Yet anecdotal reports suggest many evaluators have difficulty describing their work. Through 42 interviews with practicing evaluators, we aimed to better understand evaluators’ experiences discussing their work, examining how evaluators describe their work to nonevaluators and the p…
Practice makes better? Testing a model for training program evaluators in situation awareness
Age, Gender and Language Teacher Identity
Adapting and Enduring
With the outbreak of COVID-19 in early 2020, school buildings across the globe closed, leading educators, students and families to transition rapidly to online education. It is clear that schools will in the future continue to employ online learning, even as students and educators return to school buildings. While the education community has over a number of years generated a range of practical tips and guidance about online education—especially …
Parenting in the time of Covid-19
The closure of school buildings due to COVID-19 and the resulting rapid transition to online education dramatically altered the lives of educators, students and parents. While previous literature demonstrates the vital role of parents in effective online education (Hattie, 2020; Liu et al, 2010), pre-pandemic literature focuses on parents and students who have opted in to online education. As such, the outbreak of COVID-19 has presented new chall…
Disempowerment Evaluation and the Risks of Avoiding Stakeholder Feedback
Evaluation can bring positive, often cathartic effects for those who participate in evaluation activities. Inviting stakeholder feedback conveys respect, a commitment to improvement, and lets program participants know their perspectives are valued. The absence of evaluation, on the other hand, can cause harm to program recipients by conveying the message that their voices don’t matter—and their experiences matter even less. This is particularly t…
Just Give Me an Example! Exploring Strategies for Building Public Understanding of Evaluation
Evaluators often lament that the general public does not understand what we do. Yet, there is limited empirical research on what the general public does know—and think—about program evaluation. This article seeks to expand our understanding in this domain by capturing views about evaluation from a demographically representative sample of the U.S population. This article also explores different strategies for describing program evaluation to the g…
A Forum on Emerging Technologies
As part of ILR Review's new special series "Novel Technologies at Work," this article introduces a forum composed of five industry studies that examine the drivers and impact of recent and impending technological change. Each of the studies, condensed from longer reports published over the past two years, relies on interviews with sectoral actors and other primary data to determine the relevant technologies confronting workers and managers and th…
A Mixed-Methods Study of How a Critical Race Theory-Informed Undergraduate Research Experience Program Provides Equitable Support for Aspiring Graduate Students
Numerous studies document the benefits of participating in undergraduate research experiences (UREs), including greater odds of enrolling in graduate school. However, there is a lack of understanding about how UREs support student success. This study examines survey and interview data from a multi-year program evaluation of a National Institutes of Health-funded biomedical training program to consider whether and how participating in a URE foster…
Making the Learn Evaluation Assessment Portal
Evaluation is a practice with increasing global demand. However, an understanding of who wants to learn evaluation and their learning needs related to evaluator competencies is relatively unexplored. This article describes a research effort designed to address those needs using an evaluator competency self-assessment. Despite their validity challenges, self-assessments can yield valuable information for a variety of audiences. Respondents and the…
Community nostalgia and transgenerational trauma
Oral History in Evaluation
Evaluators utilize a variety of qualitative and quantitative methods to assess outcomes and make recommendations; however, we were unable to find any reference in the literature regarding the incorporation of oral histories for evaluation purposes. Based on our use of oral histories to evaluate a Critical Race Theory (CRT)-based undergraduate research and mentoring program, we learned how oral histories can be used effectively-and meaningfully-fo…
Evaluation of the Mississippi Title X Family Planning Program in Meeting Reproductive and Sexual Health Needs
Results from this study can inform strategies to improve service utilization by potential patients and the quality of care for Title X funded networked clinics in Mississippi. Improving the delivery of care and service utilization can ultimately better meet the reproductive and sexual health needs of patients served through the Title X funded system
Organizing associational power
In November 2022, 48,000 workers across the University of California initiated the largest strike in the history of United States higher education. But although the strike ended 6 weeks later with the ratification of a new contract, support for this new contract diverged sharply across campuses: what accounts for these varying assessments of the strike? Drawing on ethnographic participation, documents, and interviews with strikers, organizers, an…
Beyond Access
In oral history, gatekeepers are individuals who facilitate access to interviewees and thus aid in the process of oral history narrator recruitment. This focus on access, however, positions the gatekeeper as a mere recruiter and fails to consider the wider significance of relying on such an individual, as well as how their presence influences and shapes the historical narratives produced. In this article, I therefore seek to proffer a more robust…
Archaeology (10 works) · Psychology (10 works) · Sociology (10 works) · Archaeology and ancient environmental studies (8 works) · History (8 works) · Geography (7 works) · Computer Science (6 works) · Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology (6 works) · Political science (6 works) · Evaluation and Performance Assessment (5 works)